{"id":617,"date":"2020-06-22T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irrigation.equipment\/?p=617"},"modified":"2020-08-03T15:53:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T21:53:38","slug":"how-to-calculate-blusoak-flow-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/how-to-calculate-blusoak-flow-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Calculate Blusoak Flow Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, you&#8217;re interested in using Blusoak and you want to make sure that your plants will receive the right amount of water.\u00a0 There are two main variables that change the flow rate of your Blusoak, and you can manipulate these variables to achieve the flow rate that you desire.<\/p>\n<p>Variable 1:\u00a0 Length of Blusoak<\/p>\n<p>Variable 2: Pressure &#8211;\u00a0 Blusoak can function between pressure levels of 2psi-8psi, with optimal pressure being 4psi<\/p>\n<p>*Blusoak can split at the seam with pressure levels of 10 psi and above<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-637 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irrigation.equipment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Daily-Flow-Rate-per-foot-of-Blusoak-as-a-function-of-pressure.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Daily-Flow-Rate-per-foot-of-Blusoak-as-a-function-of-pressure.png 593w, https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Daily-Flow-Rate-per-foot-of-Blusoak-as-a-function-of-pressure-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Daily-Flow-Rate-per-foot-of-Blusoak-as-a-function-of-pressure-440x264.png 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Variable 1, Length of Blusoak:\u00a0 In looking at the graph above you will see that as the length of Blusoak increases, the flow rate per foot decreases.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s another way to think about this:\u00a0 The total output of water is equal for all lengths of Blusoak.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if you refer to the graph, at 2 psi all lengths of Blusoak will output 100 pints of water per day<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50 feet of Blusoak x 2 pints = 100 pints<\/li>\n<li>100 feet of Blusoak x 1 pint = 100 pints<\/li>\n<li>200 feet of Blusoak x .5 pint = 100 pints<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Variable 2, Pressure:\u00a0 The flow rate increases linearly as pressure increases.\u00a0 Increase the flow rate by the same multiple that you increase the pressure.\u00a0 For example, if you increase the pressure by a multiple of 1.5, you will do the same for flow rate.\u00a0 When\u00a0you double the pressure you can expect to double the flow rate.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the 100 foot length of Blusoak on the graph, you can see that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2psi = 1 pint per foot per day<\/li>\n<li>1.5 x 2psi = 1.5 x 1 pint per foot per day, OR 3psi=1.5 pints per foot per day<\/li>\n<li>4psi = 2 pints per foot per day<\/li>\n<li>8ps = 4 pints per foot per day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, you&#8217;re interested in using Blusoak and you want to make sure that your plants will receive the right amount of water.\u00a0 There are two main variables that change the flow rate of your Blusoak, and you can manipulate these variables to achieve the flow rate that you desire. Variable 1:\u00a0 Length of Blusoak Variable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irrigation.equipment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}