Re: Any advice for ambitious newbie?

[steve.cooper@xxxxxxx]

>>I wanted to setup a garden irrigation system, ........
>>..... Sounds like it would need a lot of hose, a lot of
>>sprinklers, and a lot of valves. And the valves advertised on
Letsautomate
>>say they are not for use at mains pressure. So what do people
use?#

Both Ian Bird and myself have similar systems we use 12v valves
available
>from
just run straight into hose pipes, sprinklers and soak hoses around the
garden.

Check out Ian's site

http://www.mollyology.com

Or a few details on mine as well

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cooperhouse/fr_ha25.htm

Since I last updated my page I have replaced the manual switches with a
link into HV.  The valves are driven from HV outputs (via a relay
board)
and the switches now go to inputs on HV to override the fully automated
watering.  I am planning to link up a rain bucket this coming weekend
to
control the amount of water dependant on rainfall.

S.



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