Anti-Shpyon watering from a Water Butt
 

Hi,

I have fitted a pump to our water butt and hooked it up to a micro
irrigation system. However when the pump is turned off, the first dripper
keeps on flowing due to the syphone effect I guess.

Are there any ways to easily fix this ?

Found this on the web which looks the same problem as me, but doesn't
specify the solution.

http://www.garden4less.co.uk/water-butt-pump.asp

"...it has no anti-syphon protection so if you use a standard watering kit
with this, it will syphon your tank dry overnight unless you put in an
air-stop hole with a bit of watering tube..."

Cheers,
Tim.

Anti-Shpyon watering from a Water Butt
 

"Tim Jenkins" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have fitted a pump to our water butt and hooked it up to a micro
irrigation system. However when the pump is turned off, the first dripper
keeps on flowing due to the syphone effect I guess.

Are there any ways to easily fix this ?

Found this on the web which looks the same problem as me, but doesn't
specify the solution.

http://www.garden4less.co.uk/water-butt-pump.asp

"...it has no anti-syphon protection so if you use a standard watering kit
with this, it will syphon your tank dry overnight unless you put in an
air-stop hole with a bit of watering tube..."

Cheers,
Tim.

I have rigged up a 1000L tank to take water off the garage roof. It sits on
3 wooden pallets. I discovered I have enough height to run water over 6
metres and up a foot or more in to my raised garden beds to water them. All
done with gravity.

rob

Anti-Shpyon watering from a Water Butt
 

"Tim Jenkins" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have fitted a pump to our water butt and hooked it up to a micro
irrigation system. However when the pump is turned off, the first dripper
keeps on flowing due to the syphone effect I guess.

Are there any ways to easily fix this ?

Found this on the web which looks the same problem as me, but doesn't
specify the solution.

http://www.garden4less.co.uk/water-butt-pump.asp

"...it has no anti-syphon protection so if you use a standard watering kit
with this, it will syphon your tank dry overnight unless you put in an
air-stop hole with a bit of watering tube..."


put in an
air-stop hole with a bit of watering tube..."

Is the solution.

Steve

Anti-Shpyon watering from a Water Butt
 

Create the air stop hole by looping the pipe up above the water butts water
line and down again ,this creating the air gap .

Regards Keith

"shazzbat" wrote in message
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"Tim Jenkins" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have fitted a pump to our water butt and hooked it up to a micro
irrigation system. However when the pump is turned off, the first dripper
keeps on flowing due to the syphone effect I guess.

Are there any ways to easily fix this ?

Found this on the web which looks the same problem as me, but doesn't
specify the solution.

http://www.garden4less.co.uk/water-butt-pump.asp

"...it has no anti-syphon protection so if you use a standard watering
kit with this, it will syphon your tank dry overnight unless you put in
an air-stop hole with a bit of watering tube..."


put in an
air-stop hole with a bit of watering tube..."

Is the solution.

Steve