Irrigating Agriculture

Centre Pivot and Lateral Move Performance Check

An underperforming centre pivot or lateral move (CPLM) irrigation system can be costly. Poor performance can occur throughout the system including in the pump, motor, sprinklers, drive mechanism, and end gun. This can impact your system’s ability to operate at the expected capacity and can result in poor crop emergence, [...]

2021-01-22T10:22:00+11:0022 January 2021|Irrigation Systems|

Variable speed drives — an energy saving option for irrigated horticulture

A variable speed drive (VSD) is used to adjust a pump’s flow or pressure to the field requirements (actual demand). Adopting VSDs in irrigation was historically for operational reasons such as providing constant pressure outputs, ‘soft starts’, or reducing pump wear. More recently, as energy prices continue to rise, the [...]

2018-07-20T08:25:28+10:0020 July 2018|Home, Irrigation Systems, Resources|
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