dry line to 2nd releaser?

[eagle lake sugar]

I have a wet/dry line setup that's around 2200ft. long, 1 1/4" over 1". I have another 150 or 200 taps over the hill in the next valley, maybe a 30 ft. drop. I have a spare 250 gallon tank that I'm planning to put at the base of the hill with a releaser. The question I have, is can I extend my dry line down to that next releaser? It's around 500 ft. from where it now ends. Will this work, or should I run a new vacuum line all the way back to my sugarhouse? I usually have to learn everything the hard way and am just trying to ease the suffering! Thanks, Steve

[JBUTCH2450]

It all depends on how many taps / boosters are coming into your wet/dry currently.

[Thompson's Tree Farm]

As long as your vacuum pump has enough CFM capacity it will work. That is a long distance to use 1 and 1/4 to transfer vacuum and you will lose a lot of CFM by pipe friction but you wont need a whole lot for that few taps.

[madmapler]

At 2200' with 1.25" you only have 9 cfms to work with. 1" line will give you 5 cfms at the same distance. Thats with a 100 cfm pump down to a 30 cfm. A 15cfm gives you 1 cfm less at that distance.

[eagle lake sugar]

Thanks, I think it will work. I have a 35cfm pump, my wet/dry is all steep slope. There are 13 mainlines and there would be around 1800 taps { including the new ones}, on that system. I shouldn't need more than 3 cfm for that many taps, but I'm not sure how many a small releaser requires to operate.

[Thad Blaisdell]

I would have to believe it would be fine..... make sure you put a moisture trap at that releaser. You do not want to suck sap up that line. (talking from experience on this issue)

[eagle lake sugar]

I would have to believe it would be fine..... make sure you put a moisture trap at that releaser. You do not want to suck sap up that line. (talking from experience on this issue)

Thanks Thad, that's the kind of stuff I was really wondering about. I should have phrased it, has anyone done this and how did it work?