help! 1 missing piece that is holding my system back!

[thekilla]

hi.. i am building a drip system and I am now stuck.. i have 1/2 inch (13mm) tubing from the pump in the reservoir to my planter.. and my drippers are 4mm tubing with small 4mm dripping nozzles on the end.. (i have about 5 dripping nozzles right now).. this is where I get stuck.. how do i connect the 5x 4mm dripping tube/nozzles into the 13mm tubing?

 

I saw on one of the hydroponic videos something like this.. (pic attached) Does anyone know where I can get either this.. or something similiar? That will connect everything together??

 

the attached 3 pics is of what I am talking about. in the last picture you can see how it connects the 13mm tubing to the 4mm tubing dripper, and how it has many connectors for more drippers!

 

thanks!!

[loylty gets u nothing]

sorry i dont know where to get the pictures connectors

but u can fix ya problem with a trip to the hardware or irrigation shop

u can get threaded barbs that screww into the 13mm tube

and connect the 4mm to that

they are only really small pieces,25c at absolute max

heres a pic,not the clearest,but will give u an idea

they are great imho, but i hand feed...

all the best

bil

[sunnycoaststoner]

billo is right on the mark, you can get them from the hardware at about 5 - 15 cents a piece. you just push a hole in the tube with a spike of some sort and then screw the connector into the tubing. other than that from most hydro stores or anywhere you can get irrigation supplies you can get a manifold like the one in your pictures.

[Gazza2001au]

make sure you get the screw in type as the push in type will leak as these fittings are deisgned for outdoor use

[Luke Skywalker]

You can get 8 outlet manifolds for 4mm tube... they don't look like that one, but you should be able to source one from a good hydro or irrigation shop.

[Tom]

Here's how it should look with the fitting in place, I drill a 3mm (1/8") hole in the hose first to make it a bit easier to screw the fitting in.

[thekilla]

thanks people! i will use that as my backup.. however I really wanna get this though..

 

luke skywalker do you have any recommendations or KNOW any places that do? Or online ones? thanks!

[thekilla]

luke skywalker, was this what you were talking about?

 

http://sunshoweronline.com.au/shop/index.p...products_id=132

[Luke Skywalker]

That's exactly it. It's 3/4 inch bsp screw, so you'll need a collar and then a reducer down to 13mm if you have to run 13 from your pump. 19 straight into it would be better.

 

When you have a reasonable distance between the first and last outlets on a drip irrigation line the ones on the end never put out as much as the first few. If you have a good pump that's a bit overpowered then you're okay, the difference is negligible. But small pump systems can find significant reduction from the drips/outlets in the ends of lines.

 

Running a drip line into a loop can help a great deal, but only so much.

 

A manifold, or keeping the driplines of the same lenth and from a point close to each other minimises the differences between drippers and keeps watering even between plants.

 

If you don't need to use 8 outlets just run a piece of tube from one of the barbs to another to feed back into it. When you put the 4mm tube onto that make sure you warm it up a bit first, and don't rip it off at a severe angle, you're likely to break it. Use vinyl tube too, not the crappy poly.

 

Hope that helps.