Watering System with balled-tube from the bottles?

[Chandler reptiles]

A sealed system would work in theory, if you were to take a large water jug (the kind from a camp store with the tap already installed) you should be able to hook up a few just to test it without spending a bunch of money since you already have the water tubes.

If you try it let me know how it works out.

[amon]

I heard there're some water bottles with springs to hold the ball in place. I'm going to try this.

And I just tested that a sealed PVC tube works with one nozzle. not sure what would happen when the whole thing is hooked up with multiple ones.

[JeffFlanagan]

Those balls will only work on a sealed bottle. For a gravity feed system you need valves. google "drinking valve"

[Chandler reptiles]

I should clarify that I meant the plastic ones that go flat when empty not the cooler ones...

[amon]

OK, just tried all the possible method to make the system air-tight, and the result is:


NONONONONONONONONONONONO WAAAAAAAAY

I finally realized and concluded that because I tried to use multiple ball zipping tubes. In a normal bottle, when water starts flowing into the tube, the air in the tube pushes some water out through the balls to make it air-tight.

But in my multiple tubes, as soon as one ball start dripping, that brings in air, and one lead to another, so more and more air goes in.

So this goes to teach all you students out there: learn as much as you can while in school. If I did, I probably would know why it wouldn't work beforehand, instead of having to learn from bad experience.