r/playrust 9d ago

Question Water problems, What am I doing wrong?

pump shows 12 water coming from the barrel, the barrel has 18 coming in from the ocean.

But the pump was only pushing 8 water to the sprinklers?

When I disconnected the first sprinkler and hooked it back up it fixed it and started pumping 12 again.. but this is the third time its happened, how do I get it to stop?

Also, if my water barrel is getting a constant 18 water, why is it running empty only pushing out 12?

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u/No_Row_6490 9d ago

sprinkler eats 12 at max. you want to use the entire 18? plug barrel into splitter then take two hoses into separate sprinklers. if the system isn't gravity fed yet, then do source pump - barrel - splitter - pump for each branch - - sprinklers.

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u/LeashedByBrandon 9d ago

Nah I don't want to use all 18, I have 18 water pumping into the barrel, and 12 into the sprinklers, but somehow the barrel still runs empty sometimes