First time irrigation installer, couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to get the water flowing the right direction. This video helped BIG time as I didn’t realise you could rotate the pop up section. Thank you!
Finally after 10 years of occasional use, I'm repairing and upgrading my Hunter spray nozzles, so this video was really helpful for me. Recently purchased quite a variety of underground riser parts and nozzles for the unknown and damage caused by moles and their tunneling along the patios and underground piping. Now I feel comfortable in getting a bit wet knowing how to adjust this efficient irrigation system.
That was perfectly presented! How is it you are not soaking wet though? I even have water in my shoes! Thank you so much for taking your time to make this!
Great video. Just one thing. When I was adjusting distance it changed my right stop too I think. Do I need to hold nozzle when adjusting screw for distance? You do in the video but did not mention it so I am not sure whether it is necessary.
Thank you for the useful instructions! I have a question for you. When I wanted to decrease the radius by using the orange tool (and tried the flat head screwdriver) it didn’t seem to reduce the radius. When it reaches the maximum of 25% reduction, does the screw stop turning when I turned it to clockwise?
Yes, when setting the left stop, you can turn the riser/stem in either direction until the left stop us where you want it. Then you can use the dial silver ring to adjust the right stop
The contractor that built my house just used the regular black spray bodies for the MP rotators instead of the one with the gray head for 40 PSI. What is the PSI for this head? Will changing to the right body make my stream spray further?
The regular black heads aren't pressure regulated, so the pressure is just what your system happens to have (many many factors affect this). With the black being unregulated, that would mean if your system had 50+ psi, your rotators might actually spray further with the black head rather than the grey head. Changing to a 40PRS head will reduce the distance if your system has pressure over 40 psi, or won't change the pressure if your system already is running at or below 40 psi. Hopefully that helps
Each color on the top shows the radius (distance) the spray is designed to shoot. You can check out our article on spray nozzle selection on smartirrigation.com for a run down of the different colors and distances
Hi I have both the MP rotator 3000 and MP 2000, but I notice that the radius of the MP 2000 is not up to spec. I use them at 3 Bar and they should do 6.1 meters but they don't even reach 5 meters I don't have this problem with the 3000 series. I don't understand what it could be?
Hmmmm that's strange. It could be that the 2000s are turned down with the adjustment screw at the top. Also, you could build a guage system to measure dynamic pressure (pressure with flow coming out of rotators) at the spray head to make sure the pressure there is 40 psi. Otherwise, there might be more complicated trouble shooting needed. Check out our patreon if you are interested in supporting us and more in depth levels of help! www.patreon.com/SmartIrrigation
@@SmartIrrigation1 Thanks for the reply. I already did the tests and I'm at almost 50 psi. The only thing that comes to my mind is that having put them in a line of 4 sprinklers I wouldn't want the pump inverter to struggle to keep the pressure constant for a small flow rate (about 13 litres/minute) in fact the motor modulates a lot .
How many will mostly be based on how much flow you can support at 40 dynamic psi. On a 3/4 line, I'd say probably 3-4 but hard to know without being there
