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Old 05-03-2020, 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Twiganne View Post
I watched a youtube video about pressure coming out of sprinklers. The ideal pressure is between 40 and 50. You can measure with a meter coming out of your hose faucet. Actually better watering will occur with lower psi. Also I was told that the villages put in too many sprinkler head spots that decrease the over all pressure and performance of the sprinkler system.
If you feel you have too many heads, change the nozzles to a lower GPM.
I would rather have too many for better coverage.
A corner head that turns only 90 deg. will require half the output of a head that turns 180 deg.
Each zone may have a longer or shorter run time.
Your times will not necessarily be the same as your neighbors.
Fine-tuning the system will save water and give better coverage.