White Shadow
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Okay, thanks. Do my steps listed above look correct? Am I missing anything? Keep in mind that I've never messed around with this stuff before, but I think I'm okay as long as I don't do anything stupid.
A garden hose that fills a 5 gallon bucket in 1 minute 40 seconds would be flowing 3 gpm. Or use a 1 gallon container, and adjust to fill that in about 20 seconds.
Yes and then you will have 45 PSI on the large sprinkler zones. If you want more, set it higher.
Great, thanks again for all the help. I was thinking about this and have a question--- if a small tank is preferable when running a CSV, then why wouldn't people with bigger tanks just adjust their pressure switches to have a more narrow range? For example, why not set the cut-on point at 50 psi, the cut-off point at 60 psi, and then set the CSV for 55 psi? Wouldn't that make a large tank behave more like a smaller tank?
Yeah. So you would be paying twice as much to do the same thing? Plus most pressure switches won't do less than 20 PSI between on and off.
Yes very typical. It will probably drop to 6 amps when using less water or filling the pressure tank. Some pump brands will drop even more than that. By making a 9 amp motor run at 7.4 or less the CSV is making the motor run cooler and last longer.
This is awkward, but...
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