Hello, do you have any videos upgrading an old indexing valve to individual digital valves connected to a well pump? I have an old K-Rain 6000 connected to a well pump and I’m considering changing to individual valves to have more flexibility.
Is cost the only benefit of installing anti siphon valves over inline valves? Anti siphon valves stick out above ground so are exposed to the elements like UV from the sun and freezing, are at much more at risk of being damaged, and are hard to hide naturally in landscape or yard also due to them sticking out of ground. The only thing I can think of that anti siphon valves might have any benefit over inline valves is that you wont have to pay for the cost and installation of a back flow preventer and paying to have it tested. Or is there something I am missing?
The biggest reason, in my experience is the ease of service, repair, and replacement. With inline valves, if just one valve needs to be replaced, the entire valve box needs to be dug up and that can become a major project the older they are due to roots inside and outside the box and other hassles. Service, repair, and replacement is inevitable. When I used to install landscapes, we strove to install the valve manifolds out of sight and away from possible root intrusion situations as much as possible.
@@SprinklerPros Yeah that is true. I installed unions on both sides of the valves to make maintenance and replacement simple for that exact reason and have all my valves, double check valve, and flow meter in stacked valve boxes and have them hidden in a decorative rock bed under a layer of decorative rocks in hopes to delay root intrusion as long as I can. Makes it easy to find since I have all 5 valve boxes with everything in them all next to each other near the backyard gate in the rock bed. Only thing that I don't care about but is a compromise is having to move the rocks off the boxes when doing maintenance. Made sure to use large enough decorative rocks in the bed so that they aren't so small making them too difficult to remove without any falling into the valve boxes though.
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