samedi 17 février 2018

How The Functions Of A Center Pivot Irrigation System Are Carried Out

By Steven West


If you already have experienced being in a plane over an agricultural place, you may have a casual glance outside the window. You might have seen the weird circular shapes beneath. Those circular shapes are the fields. As a matter of fact, they are usually circular in shape.

When you get to see one for the very first time of your life, you might question yourself as to what those things are and how they came to be or what makes these circular figures circular. You might find them surprising. Well, welcome to the fascinating world of the so called center pivot irrigation system. Unlike the conventional method of irrigation, this method or shall they say, system does not need much of a manipulation of human after its initial set up.

With this machine, the irrigation is done in a circular and smooth motion. Thanks to its central point. Aside from being convenient, it is also versatile, making the entire process more effective and at the same time, more efficient. Aside from water, one can also add herbicides and fertilizers can be added. Several uses or functions can be performed with just one system.

Over the decades, this system has been widely used in agricultural activities. It is one of the most renowned inventions a human has ever made in the history. It greatly contributes to increasing the yields and at the same time, minimizing the use of water that leads to waste. While it is said to be convenient, this can be, at other times, a complex one which highly depends on the technology of both old and modern times.

This writeup explains how its functions are carried out. For them to be carried out, the machinery itself must perform properly with the help of its basic and essential components. Pumps, pipes, or sprinkler, make up the earlier version that was invented many years ago. He gathered these parts and assembled them to raise the whole machine off the sturdy ground.

The inventor eventually provided support on the old version with the new components such as the central pivot points, the control panel, the drive units, the spans, the tower boxes, and LRDU or the last regular drive units. That is why this machine lies in technology that develops other functions for these components.

To perform its intended function, it must be operated by electricity. There are usually two sources of its current, the generator, if you have one, and public source of electricity. Its alternating current with a volt of one hundred twenty or more is very not just for the machine to work but also to aid movement on all of the components embodying it.

Its main uses are performed by its panel. Although there are different types of a control panel in every model, the way how it is used and how it functioned are basically the same. As written earlier that it is operated by an electrical source of energy, a control panel contains a command that will send some sort of signals to the central point or pivot until such signal has reached the LRDU.

LRDU moves forward or in its opposite direction. Whatever its movement was, a pivot which has been moving all along is lead by this component. It continues to move until an activation of the next tower box occurs. Such activation is caused by some kind of an arm that connects the last span and second to the last tower boxes or tower. In this case, a pivot point has to keep on going down until all its towers have been moved.




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