Not sure it this will help you, but I ran 3/16 this year and it saves a lot of time over buckets to have 30 taps run to my 275 gallon totes that are 30' down from the last tap. The totes were reasonably priced from a craigslist ad in Martinsville, and my start point is with a few trees that has the run going uphill about 20' and then going down over 100', so the sap is pulled up the incline and then down..creating a vacuum that has it literally pouring out of the 3/16 line at the collection point. My buckets have just a fraction of yield compared to the trees on 3/16.
2014 - 8 taps, turkey fryer, 130 gallons sap, just under 2.5 gallons syrup.
2015 - 50 taps and counting.
2016 - 60 taps on 3/16 and a Bill Mason evaporator on order.
2017 - 115 taps on 3/16, homemade r/o.
2018 - 150 taps on 3/16, r/o a big help, but lots of leaks killing yield.
2019 - sticking with 150 taps or maybe less, focusing on good vacuum and less waste to increase yield. Doubling up my r/o, and made a vacuum filter that looks promising.