Irrigation manifold (orbit) question

Drop That Sound

Drop That Sound

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Last time I was shopping around for manifolds, I settled on the smaller 2 & 4 port Orbit brand ones, after researching the best options. The reason being, is they are "Full Flow", without all the restrictions of the bigger adjustable 8 port ones.

The 2 port ones have a smaller screen, but i'll drill wider holes through it with a micro bit until they output the same as the 4 ports.

I wasn't planning on a dripper system though, but I can imagine two 4 ports would flow a lot better than one of the 8 ports in any system, and figured that would work best for my project anyway.

Hoping my 1300+gph pump will be able to get a decent spray from 16 EZ clone misters, and through the manifolds too. For low pressure aero/nft system..
 
Jjgrow420

Jjgrow420

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Drop That Sound said:
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Last time I was shopping around for manifolds, I settled on the smaller 2 & 4 port Orbit brand ones, after researching the best options. The reason being, is they are "Full Flow", without all the restrictions of the bigger adjustable 8 port ones.

The 2 port ones have a smaller screen, but i'll drill wider holes through it with a micro bit until they output the same as the 4 ports.

I wasn't planning on a dripper system though, but I can imagine two 4 ports would flow a lot better than one of the 8 ports in any system, and figured that would work best for my project anyway.

Hoping my 1300+gph pump will be able to get a decent spray from 16 EZ clone misters, and through the manifolds too. For low pressure aero/nft system..
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Mines 1/5hp 1300gph and it will do 24 sprinklers
 
Drop That Sound

Drop That Sound

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Oh and the big 4 port orbit union manifolds could look bad ass hooked up to a drip system, with all the smaller matching green dripper manifolds hooked up to each union. Like a small block v8 with headers or something, lol. Flora can't even flex on that.. Vroom vroom!
 
Jjgrow420

Jjgrow420

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Drop That Sound said:
Oh and the big 4 port orbit union manifolds could look bad ass hooked up to a drip system, with all the smaller matching green dripper manifolds hooked up to each union. Like a small block v8 with headers or something, lol. Flora can't even flex on that.. Vroom vroom!
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Lol. Ya it looks pretty cool with the manifolds in between the plants. Alien spaceships lol
Do you run a backstop valve?
I do like the floraflex air bleed valve idea. Been trying to find one locally
The reason I went with the 8port is because I'm lazy and didn't want to plumb more joints in.
I did get 5x 4port manifolds too on Amazon for 30bucks.
 
Turpman

Turpman

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I'm guessing the line he has going back to the res is for a vacuum break so it doesent siphon after the pump shuts off. I have a couple 8 bangers. Haven't hooked them up yet.
I thought the valves were so you can even flows out if you had a long hose in the group?
 
Drop That Sound

Drop That Sound

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My res is a lot lower than where the rails are gonna be, like 3 feet to the where it sits, so I'm not worried about it siphoning on me. More worried about keeping it fully primed actually, because it will be cycling every 4-5 minutes, and 3 feet is pretty high to go up...

If I was all on the same level, I probably would use some kind of a one way check type valve, instead of using up a whole port on one of the 8 port dripper manifolds (for the anti siphon effect).. I'm probably gonna need the stop valve for my particular setup though, for sure.
 
Turpman

Turpman

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A vacuume break is basically a small leak downstream of the pump back to the rest. Usually just a small T in the discharge hose. When the pump shuts off it allows air in preventing siphoning.
 
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