Why only five taps

[500592]

i am thinking of adding more taps and a vacuum but i have a line with 20 on it already so for fust one lateral coulld there be more than 5 taps

[Kev]

i am thinking of adding more taps and a vacuum but i have a line with 20 on it already so for fust one lateral coulld there be more than 5 taps

you can put as many as you want... but the research shows that every tap added to a lat. reduces output per tap. the reduction is very little with 5 or less. it gets worse over 5. Proctor research facility has a very good write up about it. Dr Tim actually makes a living finding this stuff out. how cool is that, both for him and us! Thanks Doc. :D

[3rdgen.maple]

Strive for five is the goal, reason being is more than that will fill the lines up with sap and not allow you to get max vac to the trees.

[Dennis H.]

My take on it is that at the saddle fitting on the mainline the Lat will be "seeing" max vac. lets say 25"

So if you have 5 taps on that lat the vac is sort of divided up between those 5 taps. The more taps the more it must be divided up. So in simple terms each tap is "seeing" less vac.

The best would be to have 1 tap per lat, not very cost effective though.

I would try to at least split that lat into 2 if possible.