how to get maximum pressure and water volume at 300 foot distance.

[Denny of PA]

today as a trial I just replaced part of my feed line with an additional 50' of

1-1/2" header pipe , at the 300 ' end and I eliminated 50' of one of the 1/2" hoses that i was using to feed the head section. , and i was happy to see that i was now able to get 7 of the 120" trickle line working at a time. yes trhe larger supply pipe appears to be the answer, I was just using the hoses because they were available, but now that i know the cure to my problem i will invest in the poly pipe., and maybe i will be able to get 10 of the lines working at a time like i would like

thanks again for your help

Denny

thank you all for your

[bob haller]

its a trickle system, truly whats critical about running 10 lines at a time?

you could run just one line at a time, 24 hours a day.-

what difference would it make?

[Denny of PA]

simply because I have 20 - 120 ' lines off of my 1-1/2" header line , and if i run 10 of them at time i water half the garden all at once in about 2 hours. my total supply is 6 gpm and each 120 ' line takes 0.6 gpm x 10 = 6 gpm , that is the max that I can possible water at the same time.

THAT ! is the difference. ;-)