Yesterday, I was very fortunate to be introduced by Mr.Y of Port Klang to a company who supply the Piped Water Mist Spray System (PWMS) suitable for Bird Houses.
Mr.Y recently revamped his three years BH and he chooses PWMS as compared to the normal humidifiers cool mist spray system.
His pointed out the following points:
1) The pipe water spray system are more quite. With less noise the birds will feel safe and peaceful. You can actually locate the pump outside the BH nesting area if you want to totally remove the noise pollution. A very good and strong point and I fully agreed with him.
2)The pipe spray uses a combination of a water filter, a solenoid valve, a high pressued water pump, a check valve, high pressure piping and of course those mist spray nozzles. Their cost is more or less much the same as compared to using three humidifiers.
3) The piping mist spray system can be activated either by using a hygrostat or a temperature sensor. U might be able to set the triggering point by using either the humidity or the temperature. This is something unique and interesting. As such you can ensure that both the temperature and humidity are within the specified ranges that you wanted.
4) You can actually control the size of the mists that you wanted. This is due to the fact that the nozzles used to produce those mists are adjustable i.e you can tighten or loosen the nozzle and the mist size will changed.
5) One set of these piped mist sprays system can be used for two floors. They come with a high pressured pump and adequate nozzles to effectively used on two floors of 20' X 70'. On the everage they are cheaper then running let say 6 chicken coop humidifiers. This will cut down your electricity bills too.
6) What you need in a good supply of clean pipe water. It is advisable to install a filter cartridge just before the pipe water entering the high pressured pump.
7) When you install on the wall parimeter about chest height, you can place the mist nozzles about 4-5 feet apart. The best is to opt for the L shape design. Make sure those nozzles do not face up to the nesting planks. Let them face straight or a bit towards the floor. Facing up might cause the nesting planks to be wet thus encourage spores (fungus) to built.
8) The only thing that you need to be carefull about is the possiblity of those nozzles getting clogged. You have to check on them regularly and have some spare nozzles with you all the time.
9) Once clogged, the water from these nozzles will drip onto the floor and might cause some wetting or even flooding. So U do need to perhap keep a close eye on them.
Since they provide you with many good points, I would love to recommend the use of this method. However there is no reasons why you should throw away those humidifiers. You should consider using both the humidifiers and piped water spray in combination.
I still believed that humidifier, the most quite type, can be used for my aroma theraphy purposes. I want one of these humidifiers to spit out those special aroma (Close2You) that I spike into the humidifier water.
No matter what it is, I would say that pipe water sprays system is something that a new BH owners should look at. They are lots of benefits and if you have the time take a closer look at it.
Two of my BHs (adopted) are using this techniques and both are running without any complains.
I am also planning to deploy the system to my new BH in Pahang (now under renovation) ....
Those who wanted to order a DIY set please contact harry at harryswiftlet@yahoo.com.
Will be able to give the exact price, item breakdowns plus freight once you write in.
Special Note: The pictures displayed in this article are for my illustrations and your understanding only. This particular system is a high end type which I saw at my Golf Club. They might bit a bit pricy (RM 5K and above)and will be above your burdget. What U need is a simple system that will not cost more then RM 1,000
2 comments:
The cool mist spray system wets the floor in the farm. Does the piped water mist spray system wet the floor too and what the cost like for a farm of 20' X 70' X 2 floors.
Kaijia,
The basic function of mist spray system is to cool your BH down but it also increase the water content of the air.
Unfortunately, if you do not know the optimum amount of water to be sprayed for how many minutes and etc, there is a tendency that the floor might be wet.
I believed if U can carefully control the exact amount to spray and for a specific time span it will not wet the floor.
The only problem is when the nozzles are clogged with dirt thus preventing the formation of a proper sprays. This will eventually leads to water being like a small tap thus wetting your BH floors. U need to avoid this.
Try to quickly correct or change the nozzle head. Have a few spares in hand.
U should also ensure that the filter are regularly cleaned.
The cost of the cheapest system that I came acrossed using a proven method is about RM 880 excluding installation and the piping.
This include the pump, the solenoid valve, a check valve, 30 nozzles suitable for 2 floors of 70' X 20' dimension.
Just to clearify that they do not include those sophiticated temperature/humidity sensors. U can use digital timer if U want to.
The filteration system you need to purchase separately.
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