All About Rain Bird 5000 & 3500
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- čas přidán 9. 04. 2022
- Everything you need to know about Rain Bird's rotor heads for residential and light commercial, the 3500 and 5000. Adjustment is very easy and we'll walk through that at the end of the video.
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Thank you thank you! Going through most of your teachings and finding each and every one of them to be informative and helpful.
This is the best video on making adjustments for the rainbird rotary sprayers. First, he points out that setting the left limit with the sprinkler running is not the desired method when using the slip-clutch. You can turn the body of the entire sprinkler or the use channel locks on the popup portion to adjust the left limit with the water running, but you should use the slip-cutch with the water off. That's a major point if you wish to retain your sanity. All the other videos I watched did not make these points clear.
Hi Stephen, thanks for watching and commenting! It's true that you can adjust the slip clutch while the sprinkler is running, but it's not the best adjustment. Much better to do a rough adjustment while the head is off, then fine tune while running.
Great video, thank you!
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
How do you shorten the radius on the left stop? I get that you can use the channel lock to turn it further to the left, but if it’s going too far left do you use the channel locks to turn it back to the right to where you want the left stop to be? Just want to make sure before I go out and break a few heads...
You've got it correct. You can turn the left limit either direction. Just be gentle with the channel locks your first few times. It's easy to crack the shafts if you grip it too hard.
HIPOTHETICAL question. I bought some Rainbird 5000's. and I love them. Since we get pretty good rain in GA i figured spending the money to put a full sprinkler system in the house would be a waste. I bought some funny pipe and looking to do a DIY project. I can get 3 5000 heads to spray about 17' each with the screw tightened down enough to star distorting the full throw of the water stream and start to fan it out more. The question is if I step DOWN to the 3000s can I or would I be able to gain some distance. I would love to get an extra 3 to 4 feet out of each head to overlap the zone better. I want to do it on a 3 rainbird 3 zone timer so I can set it and forget it. If I cant get the distance I might need to step down to 2 5000 heads per zone and will have to do more than 4 zones to cover my back yard and will throw a wrench in the timer. Thank you
Hi Cobra Venom, there's a couple variables that I don't know, such as your supply pressure and flow. But there is a pinch point that I see. Funny Pipe, or 1/2" poly tubing is rated for 4gpm. You might be able to get 5 maybe 6 gpm if you have real high pressure. So, if your 3 x RB 5000s have the 1.5 gpm nozzle in each of them, you're ok, but if they have larger nozzles, it might be why you're only getting 17' of distance out of the heads. So, first figure out what nozzles are in the sprinklers, or which nozzles you want to use, add them up for total flow of each zone. Then you should check the pressure and flow of your source, to make sure you have enough to begin with (probably 40 or 45 psi pressure minimum, depending.) I would also consider using 3/4" poly which can comfortably flow 8 gpm, or 3/4" Class 200 PVC which can flow up to 10 gpm. OR, if the heads have nozzles larger than 1.5, change them to 1.5s and see if it improves your coverage.
@@Proirrigationtraining aaaahhhh so I am probably restricting my sprinkler heads by already using the 1/2 Poly pipe. The heads did have 3gpm when they were first tried. I stepped all of them to the 2gmp and one of them even to the low angle 2gpm. I will go home and turned them on ans measure distance and then switch to the 1.5 gpm and measure distance one more time to see if that helps. Thanks
@@cobravenum So, did you get better performance with the smaller nozzles?
@@Proirrigationtraining not yet. We got some good rain in the past week that I have not had to water. I might have to water tomorrow if the thunder storms don't come by the time I come home from work.