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What are you trying to do? I'm no expert but I can help

I'm really just trying to figure everything out and learn and need someone who I can ask a few questions before I order all the stuff I need, I don't wanna be buying the wrong equipment.

https://www.thcfarmer.com/community/threads/designing-a-drip-system.82427/#post-1719603

My last post in this thread, is there anything else you think I need and what kind of filter should I buy?

http://www.dripworks.com/category/dripworks-filters

And what timer?

http://www.dripworks.com/category/drip-irrigation-timers

I was thinking one of the Galcon because I can set them down to the second.

And emitters, the bigger the GPH the less change they get clogged up right?

Hope you can be arsed to help me out :)

I use the galcon ac9s and the ac6s your list is pretty complete but you either need a pump start relay or a on demand pressure pump. The psr setup will only be pressured up if the timer is on if you use a on demand pump the system will always be under pressure

And you need a higher pressure pump either way you can buy both at harbor freight they actually have really good water pumps. Knock on wood I have never had one go out. I use the sprinkler booster pump and the on demand pump they call a "shallow well pump" both are about 160$

If you have to pump out of the top of your rez you can run a submersible sump pump to pump to the pressure pump and run both on the psr switch

Oh and put in a inline check valve to hold pressure against the valves or they can open and siphon out your rezi. Let me know if you need anything else or some pics of what I have done. There is alot of ways to accomplish the same thing

And you can use about any in line filter just keep it 1" and I like to do a recirculating line from the feed rez back to the feed rez to mix before the system runs. And put a filter on that line so it filters when it mixes. Then a filter when on the main feed line. Clean them once a week and you should be good

http://global.espa.com/en_us/products/products-by-ranges/water-supply/horizontal-booster-pumps/aspri/aspri-15/

I have this pump here, the number 4 series. It says there that it ranges from 15.8 GPM at 18.2 PSI to 1.6 GPM at 63 PSI. Is this a big enough pump? I'm not even sure what PSI is hehe :)

And I'm not sure what you mean when you talked about recirculating the line from the res and back to the res.

Inline check valve, where should I put that? That valve is to make sure my res doesn't empty and water my plants like crazy, right?

English isn't my first language so I have to do a lot of googling when I'm reading and learning here on the site but I think I have this drip stuff on point now.. I'll get a Galcon timer, how big of a timer do I need? My system isn't big.

That pump should work good.
The recirculating line is basically just a mixing line. I will put a "T" in the line after the pump then one line goes to the plants and the other line goes back to the reservoir

And put a valve on the mixing line. Then I program the timer to run the mixing line first so the nutes in the reservoir don't separate before it waters.
The timer would be programmed like this
Zone 1 - mixing line for 2 minutes
Zone 2- first station of plants to water
And repeat for more plants