PLEASE HELP WITH PSI, PRECIPTATION RATE
Hi,
I moved into my house a few months ago and started the sprinkler system up for the season. NO LEAKS, a good start.
However I found out I have 33 pop-ups and 5 rotors.
I want to water as efficiently as possible.
I little help finding out the actual pressure each pop-up head is putting out, so I can determine what my precipitation rate is and my GPM is. That way I can adjust my timer accordingly.
I just want to find out the gpm my sprinkler heads are putting out. Rainbirds website shows my pop ups @ 30 psi and rates there gpm @ 30 psi. I want to know, because I can see how much water I am using.
Is there an easy way to determine how much pressure is actually at each pop up?
Doing the 5 gallon bucket test and checking the house pressure doesn't apply, as I have seperate outside lines from the city for my irrigation and household water.
However, I checked the PSI @ my sprinkler drain in my valve box, its 80 PSI !!! (I Used an orbit water gauge to test) I checked with the city about my static pressure, they state its between 70-80psi.
Thank You for any help you can give!!!
This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "steeve725" (May 11th 2010, 6:17am)