Pressure and Effectiveness
At my home in the mountains, I have an automatic sprinkler system tied to a new well. Each evening the water comes on and starts my sprinklers to water my lawn and shrubs and trees.
I’ve noted a diminishing water pressure from the pump causing my sprinklers to lose their reach and effectiveness. As the pressure gradually goes down, one of the heads in each setting stops working well. Instead of moving around watering a wide area it sits in one place just pathetically spurting.
The problem isn’t with the well or the pump. The problem is I’m trying to run too many sprinklers on a setting. There isn’t enough pressure flowing from the well to run them all effectively. The solution is to cap one sprinkler in each setting and allowing plenty of pressure to the remaining heads. Then I’ll adjust the reach of each of the remaining heads to cover the ground lost by the capped ones.
Too often in our lives we try to do too much with too little. There’s only so much time, energy, and resources. If you take on just one job too many, you risk losing your overall effectiveness. Watch this closely.
Cap what you do and you’ll actually be better off.
