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  • From: "MAsteveINE" <MAsteveINE AT 207me.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] drip tape woes
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:56:28 -0400

Agree that upping the presure is not the answer.
 
 
There is a bit of engineering involving how much 10 psi water you can put through a certain length and diameter pipe.
 
Were it me not getting full drip lines I would drop out a few lines on the header (and pluging the holes) and seeing
 
if the remaining lines dont straighten up and fly right. If they do the cure would be bigger header or more of them.
 
MAsteveINE
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I'd be careful increasing the drip tape pressure as I've heard you can get into trouble using more than 15psi with drip lines and that the higher the pressure the lower life you will get furthermore some dealers have told me you can blow out emitters with higher pressure than 15 psi.



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