The Orbit garden irrigation range, exclusively available from Agrinet, has everything you need to install a professional garden irrigation system themselves.  The product range is innovative, comprehensive and designed with the end-user and performance in mind. 

Installing an automatic sprinkler system for the first time can seem quite daunting, so the team at Orbit put together an easy to follow diagram to provide a simple look at the anatomy of a sprinkler system.

The starting point of any sprinkler system is the water source. Where the system receives its water from varies, and can also be determined/regulated by local codes. Read more on steps to follow before installing a sprinkler system.

With most gardens, except very small yards, water pressure from the water source is not sufficient to allow watering of the entire garden all at once.  To solve this, a garden is broken up into smaller zones or areas.  Each zone is assigned an automatic sprinkler valve which will then control the water flow for each zone or area from the mainline/original water source.

Sprinkler valves are often grouped together to make them easy to locate and limits the amount of sprinkler wire required.  This sprinkler valve grouping/arrangement is called a sprinkler manifold. The manifold is typically fed by pipe or tubing that is tapped directly into the house’s water supply, but it is also possible to supply it by a faucet or hose connection.

Sprinkler wire is used to connect each automatic valve to an automatic sprinkler timer or controller, which tells each valve to open and close for a set or specific time.  Some sprinkler timers can also be connected to smart devices which automatically calculate when and how long the system should run and shut the system off when it is raining.

This ability of being able to precisely control when, where, how long, and under which weather conditions an irrigation system should run (e.g. A system can be shut off when it detects raining) is how an automatic sprinkler system conserves water.

From the valve manifold, lateral line pipes carry water to the sprinkler heads or low flow sprinkler devices such as drippers or micro-irrigation sprinklers.

Orbit have created – Orbit Sprinkler System Designer – an online tool which is the easiest way to design a professional, water-conserving sprinkler system. The tool is integrated with Google maps, so you will be able to design on your yard.

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