While you won't get the most sap possible, in your case I suggest you use 3/16 lateral, and 5/16 taps and drops. That, with good vacuum will give you a fairly good sap flow at minimal cost.
The reason for 3/16 and not 5/16 is because in 3/16 the air (gasses) do not pass the sap, thus a vacuum will pull both uphill to the mainline.
I did this exact thing on about 200 taps, in about 8-9 laterals running up to 500' each and lifting up to 12' in elevation for 4 years. Yes I got less sap than if I'd gone a more conventional method, but my thinking was justifying it in terms of investment vs sap collected. If you tried the same using 5/16 you would always have a pool of sap at the lowest trees that would not move much if at all. To do mine I had a piston vacuum pump with 27" of vacuum. I never put a vacuum gauge near the last tree, but I know it was low, but I always had a nice constant sap flow where the laterals entered the main linesany time the sap was flowing.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.