How to Install a Drip Irrigation Head Assembly (Beginner's Guide)
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- Опубликовано: 14 сен 2023
- This is how to install a drip irrigation head assembly for a hose bibb/outdoor spigot/faucet.
If you'd like to start with the exact head assembly we installed in this video, we used a 1/2" Mainline - 25 PSI Head Assembly with Canister Filter Kit: www.dripdepot.com/product/hal...
In this video, we cover...
1.) How to Install a Drip Irrigation Head Assembly
2.) Tips to ensure proper installation
3.) What not to do
There are a variety of tubing adapters for this head assembly, including...
- 1/4" Tubing Adapter: www.dripdepot.com/product/bar...
- 3/8" Tubing Adapter: www.dripdepot.com/perma-loc-t...
- 1/2" Tubing Adapter: www.dripdepot.com/perma-loc-t...
- 3/4" Tubing Adapter: www.dripdepot.com/perma-loc-t...
- 1" Tubing Adapter: www.dripdepot.com/perma-loc-t...
How to Design a Drip Irrigation System: • How to Design a Drip I...
Supplies we used:
Head Assembly
- Claber Video 2-Cycle Hose End Timer: www.dripdepot.com/video-2-cyc...
- Hendrickson Bros J10 Vacuum Breaker (Backflow Preventer): www.dripdepot.com/bros-j10-ho...
- 3/4" GHT Canister Filter: www.dripdepot.com/three-quart...
- Senninger 3/4" GHT 25 PSI Pressure Regulator: www.dripdepot.com/three-quart...
- 3/4" FHTS x 1/2" Poly Tubing Adapter: www.dripdepot.com/perma-loc-t...
How to Zone Your System: • How to Setup a head as...
How to Find your Flow Rate: • How to Check the Flow ...
How to Install Drip Irrigation for Wooden Raised Beds: • How to Install Drip Ir...
Written Head Assembly Installation Tips Guide: help.dripdepot.com/support/so...
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One of the most comprehensive videos I have found on RUclips. I love the simple graphics and the very informative content.
I wish I had known about the silicone tape thing. Guess I'm going out to remove it in the morning.
Very helpful and clear. Thanks
You've very welcome, and thank you for watching as well!
Your videos have been incredibly helpful in designing my drip system, but I have a question that i haven't yet seen covered. I have quite a long hose (100 feet) that goes from the faucet at my house down to my garden. At my garden, I have a Y-split where last year, I connected two different hoses - one was a soaker hose and the other was a normal garden hose. Can I install a timer at the house faucet, and the rest of the head assembly on one side of my Y-split at the garden? (This would allow me to keep a normal hose available in the garden on the other side of the Y-split, just in case.) Or, does the entire head assembly need to live at the faucet?
Taylor, I think you're right about this not being in a video yet -- I'm going to toss it into our ideas list, thank you for the idea :)
I believe you could do exactly as you're suggesting, other than the backflow preventer. So you can have: Faucet --> Timer --> Backflow Preventer --> Y Splitter --> (on the drip side) Filter --> Pressure Regulator --> Drip System
You could probably put your filter after the backflow preventer near the timer if you wanted to filter for both sides, but it's also fine to place it after the Y splitter.
@@dripdepot Thank you so much! Your videos are so extensive and helpful for a beginner - I couldn't have done it without you!
Great set up. If the setup had a fertigation component e.g. mix rite, that demandend more pressure than what is coming out of your pressure reduction component, would you relocate the pressure reducer to the downstream part of the fertigation component? That way the fertigation component can utilize the existing high pressure from the source. You already have a back flow preventer so no risk is involved.
You have it exactly right -- If I needed more pressure than what's coming out of the regulator, I'd likely move the regulator downstream of the injector. This would work well since regulators only regulate downstream pressure -- you also have it exactly right that the water source would be secure since the backflow preventer would still be upstream of the injector component.
Depending on the injector I'm using, I do try to install them downstream of the regulator just to help them have a long life -- a lot of them now can operate at very low pressure. One of our most popular MixRites, the 570CW can operate as low as 2.9 PSI -- it wouldn't be ideal to operate that low, but 15 to 25 PSI still gets great results from them :)
Great insights as usual from you, thank you sincerely!
I once tried to use a ventiri siphon to fertigate and it constantly pumped water into the fert container, could it be bc I had it upstream from the pressure reducer?
If the backflow piece is a constant stream/spray, how can I fix?
Is this happening at system shut-off or is it constant during the watering cycle? If you're able to, a quick video showing it spraying (with a wide enough shot to see the rest of the head assembly at the hose bib) might help me determine if it's something wrong with the preventer, or something else that could be quickly fixed. You could send / share that video by sending an email to us here, I'll be happy to help :) help.dripdepot.com/support/tickets/new
@@dripdepotTicket submitted!
@@spencerk4387 Perfect, thank you! I'll go take a look now, expect to hear from me shortly :)