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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 6599403" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>Airlock in the system? I have a spring fed gravity system at one of the farms and its forever getting airlocks somehow, possibly when excess demand lowers the tank too much and lets it in. Then by the time the issue is noticed the reservoir has fillen back up so looks OK. Are there any points further back up the line where you can open the gravity pipe up and see if its flowing full bore there? </p><p></p><p>I've found that even with a full head of water at a decent height, its very hard to get air pushed down the pipe by gravity alone. What I do is pump water back up the pipe from the bottom to push the air to the top. That always seems to cure my low flow/no flow problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 6599403, member: 818"] Airlock in the system? I have a spring fed gravity system at one of the farms and its forever getting airlocks somehow, possibly when excess demand lowers the tank too much and lets it in. Then by the time the issue is noticed the reservoir has fillen back up so looks OK. Are there any points further back up the line where you can open the gravity pipe up and see if its flowing full bore there? I've found that even with a full head of water at a decent height, its very hard to get air pushed down the pipe by gravity alone. What I do is pump water back up the pipe from the bottom to push the air to the top. That always seems to cure my low flow/no flow problems. [/QUOTE]
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