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FarmerTodd
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- Will this "design" work
I am trying to design/build a large self-filling drinking station, aka water bowl, for my goats and cow (see design attached)
. It's a takeoff of a dog's self-filling water bowl, i.e., uses gravity and vacuum to automatically refill the bowl as the water in the bowl is drank. The rain barrel is 50 gallons. The Water bowl is about 10 gallons.
What issues do you foresee with this design? I'm thinking the entire contents of the rain barrel will flow into the water bowl (overfilling it) if the water in the downspout evaporates as the vacuum will be lost.
Or what happens if the bowl is full, the barrel has water in it but is below the inlet on the downspout side, and it rains cats and dogs? Will the weight of the water in the downspout force the air out of the rain barrel and bubble out of the bowl or will the barrel not fill any further.
What issues do you foresee with this design? I'm thinking the entire contents of the rain barrel will flow into the water bowl (overfilling it) if the water in the downspout evaporates as the vacuum will be lost.
Or what happens if the bowl is full, the barrel has water in it but is below the inlet on the downspout side, and it rains cats and dogs? Will the weight of the water in the downspout force the air out of the rain barrel and bubble out of the bowl or will the barrel not fill any further.