السبت، 10 فبراير 2018

How To Maintain A Golf Course Irrigation System

By Janet Wallace


Too often, people fail to notice problems in irrigation systems until it is too late. You find yourself with large areas of burnt-out or stressed turf on the field, and you have no way that you can make it come back to a functional status again. Even the most advanced systems are faced with challenges on valves, wiring, controllers and other features that make the whole system functional. Therefore, you need to learn a few maintenance practices that can help you save thousands of dollars annually that are paid to experts that come for golf course irrigation system repair.

All equipment found in the turf needs to be maintained in one way or another. Similar treatment should be employed on the irrigation system if you want to experience better services from them. Regular checkup and maintenance practices will cut down the costs realized through repairs and unnecessary repairs that are done by hired experts over things that could have been handled swiftly by a supervisor.

Before a thorough diagnosis of the system is launched, you have to check the obvious parts. Find out whether the water supply is on, whether there is backflow from the isolation valves that can prevent water from flowing, and whether the flow control has been turned off among other practices. By reviewing such factors before calling in a repair expert, you will have saved substantial time and efforts.

Irrigation systems for golf courses are both manual and automatic. However, they function differently, and their problem can be identified separately. However, these methods may fail without giving any alarm, and if the concerned parties are not fast enough to find out where the problem is coming from, the repair might cost you handsomely. Go through the provided manual to get ideas on how you can reset it to a great state.

You can smoothly monitor how the pumps and other parts of the system from the controller. This is a part of the device that has been fitted with an LCD monitor where an attendant can watch all actions. However, electrical failure or blockage can cause them to stop functioning. To bring back the devices into working conditions, put them off for about fifteen minutes and switch them on again. They shall automatically start functioning.

Another factor that contributes to system failure is blown fuses that fail to complete the electric circuit. This happens due to overloading and installation of a circuit breaker can help minimize such situations. A replacement of the fuse can help solve the problem, and if nothing changes, then you can call an electrician to come in and check whether the challenge is experienced due to wiring issues.

Spare parts should be kept at your facility at all times if you want the system to operate without delays. However, the spares must be identical to those elements that are already installed to avoid stocking the wrong devices. When you have such tools around the course, repairing any of the broken pieces can be easy.

Regular maintenance of any machine increases its lifespan and facilitates its efficiency. Most problems are developed when you keep on ignoring them and when you realize there is a problem, it has grown to the highest magnitude. Therefore, make it your business to check most parts of the system on a weekly basis.




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