Tips for the irrigation

The general irrigation works like this:

We need a barrel, an immersion pump, a check valve, a filter for suspended matter, an irrigation hose, miscellaneous circuit points, an end cap, as well as drip feeds, that hang on a capillary hose and a piercer to connect the other end of the capillary hose with the irrigation hose.

On this pump the following adaptor should be attached:

 

 For all other pumps you'll need a reducing spout from 1 inch to ¾ inch
 

Now you can screw on a ¾ inch check valve.

The check valve holds the pressure in an irrigation plant abide, in order that your drip feeds start to drip when the clock timer starts, instead of waiting till there is enough pressure. Screw on the check valve the so called filter for suspended matter, that also needs a ¾ inch thread.

As the name filter for suspended matter tells, the filter avoids impurities of your system, in order that the capillary hoses won't clog. But the fine grid has to be cleaned from time to time: just screw off the cap, take out the filter und wash it. In the next step you need to screw on the following adapter:

When you did everything right the pump should look like this or with the reducer where now the sewer is.

Now screw your connecting kit on the pump and heat it up the irrigation hose with a lighter, which is pressed on the adapter. And then we start with the angle and end piece.

The best way to pierce a hole is to turn the piercer and pull it off, then put in the capillary hose quickly, because the hole will pucker and seaks by this. If you wait too long it will be very hard to put the capillary hose into the opening. However the opening shouldn't be bulged with the pierver, because it wouldn't seal anymore afterwards.

The rest is evident. Don't fail by cutting the capillary hose on plant distance, because through a half hose runs the doubled amount of water, and that isn't what we want.


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