Test Your Knowledge Of Irrigation
The following five questions are based on golf course irrigation. Check all that apply!
- 1.A Cla-Val installed on an irrigation system pump station is use to protect irrigation systems against
- A.
High water pressure
- B.
Water cavitation
- C.
High water flow
- D.
Low water level in a wet well
- E.
Pump station discharge faults
- 2.On a pump station's electric motor a routine test should include a "Meger Test". The Meger Test evaluates
- A.
The motors RPMs
- B.
The motors work capacity in AMPS
- C.
The motors insulation integrity
- D.
The motors bearings and lubrication quaility
- E.
The motors true Horse Power
- 3.A misaligned irrigation head and / or a not-to-grade head can cause up to a
- A.
10% irrigation efficiency reduction
- B.
15% irrigation efficiency reduction
- C.
20% irrigation efficiency reduction
- D.
25% irrigation efficiency reduction
- E.
30% irrigation efficiency reduction
- 4.Total Dynamic Head (TDH) is important to irrigation pump stations, why
- A.
TDH is a term to discribe pressure
- B.
TDH is a term to reflect resistance in the pump
- C.
TDH is the resistance in the pump intake
- D.
TDH is the measurement of pump length
- E.
TDH is the term the discribes the relationship of water to gravity
- 5.Evapotranspiration Rate (ET) is based on what climatic factors
- A.
Wind speed
- B.
Temperature
- C.
Humidity
- D.
Soil type
- E.
Sun exposure
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