Sprinkler Valve Question
you connect the nipple(nozzle) into it, and run a blowgun out of it. this is actuating it using air(releasing air and equalising it) and then it will open. same thing the solenoid does.
This may not be true, i dont know everything about sprinkler valves
This may not be true, i dont know everything about sprinkler valves
- zeigs spud
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no it is true, the solenoid is just slower. all the extra stuff like a solenoid you will wana seal up.
- deusXmachina
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What you are talking about is modded sprinkler valve. The solenoid is an air valve all it does is leak air in order to actuate the diaphragm. What a blow gun or other valve does is dump a huge chunk of air rather than an 1/8" hole. I have a valve in testing that is a 3" piston actuated by a modded 1" sprinkler valve actuated by an electric soleniod 3/4"
. The idea is you want the valve to open ASAP, and the larger the air flow, the better
http://www.spudfiles.com/spud_wiki/inde ... dification

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"On a scale from 1-10, I hope you fall in front of a bus."
:white stuff pours out of piston: "What is that? It looks like milk."
"....<i>Well...</i> it's not milk."
YAAAAAAAAYYYY WE'RE DOOMED!
:white stuff pours out of piston: "What is that? It looks like milk."
"....<i>Well...</i> it's not milk."
YAAAAAAAAYYYY WE'RE DOOMED!
Thanks, that makes perfect sence :thumbup:deusXmachina wrote:What you are talking about is modded sprinkler valve. The solenoid is an air valve all it does is leak air in order to actuate the diaphragm. What a blow gun or other valve does is dump a huge chunk of air rather than an 1/8" hole. I have a valve in testing that is a 3" piston actuated by a modded 1" sprinkler valve actuated by an electric soleniod 3/4". The idea is you want the valve to open ASAP, and the larger the air flow, the better
http://www.spudfiles.com/spud_wiki/inde ... dification