Drip emitters for air lines

[pete321]

Hi
What size drippers do you use on your airlines for sponge filters.

Pete

[Graham]

whats a dripper???:confused::o

[pete321]

It is a garden irrigation product that connects to a pipe the size of an airline. It is used to drip water into pot plants and has a rating of gallons per hour. The better ones self regulate the pressure.
If used on an airline that supplies the whole fish room, you should get a constant flow even if you add more lines or decrease the flow to a particular air line.

Hope this makes sense.

[Graham]

I assume then that you're pumping air through it and not water

[pete321]

yes air. you can adjust individual lines with affecting air flow rate in the remaining lines

[Discus-Hans]

Look at this, is this what you are loking for???

http://www.jehmco.com/html/air_accessories.html#Emitters

Hans

[Cosmo]

http://www.jehmco.com/html/air_accessories.html#Emitters


I've never tried drippers for air, or water for that matter. I prefer to have options and use the AV1 valves on the same Jehmco page.

Jim

[pete321]

Yes , thanks that is what I was looking for.

If you just use the valves, If you suddenly open one of the valves fully or close a valve, you could effect the air flow to the other air filters. You would then have to go and readjust all your valves to compensate for the increase or decrease in air flow.
If you use the emitters with automatic pressure compensate, then you do not have have to readjust all your valves.