How Does a Lawn Sprinkler Work?

[yaswanth_040]

Hi friends,
Can anyone please explain the how Lawn Sprinkler works.

Thank You,
Yaswanth

 

[russ_watters]

There are several different types...

 

[yaswanth_040]

How it sprinkles the water around. I mean how it rotates, is pressure drop in the hoses of the sprinkler which rotates it?

 

[russ_watters]

A rotating one would just use the water it expels to propel it.

 

[Unrest]

A rotating one would just use the water it expels to propel it.

I think they all do that :P That's what makes it different from a pump.

Yaswanth, what kind are you talking about? There are domestic continuously rotating ones, and larger scale ones which have some kind of spring mechanism and change direction.

But basically, yes, there'll be a pressure drop from which energy is used to rotate the head.