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Nozzle Sizing and Calibration Charts
Need to find the right nozzle size for your application? Sometimes a simple chart is the easiest way to figure things out. Print it and place it in your sprayer cab. In this chart, identify your...
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Productivity Calculator
Want to figure out how your sprayer configuration affects your productivity? Try out this little calculator that tells you the acres per hour, and the amount of productivity lost to turning and...
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Tank Rinse Dilution
If you have a limited amount of clean water to rinse your sprayer, this app can help you decide how to make the best use of it. Simple enter two values – the amount of pesticide remaining in your tank...
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Capstan Calibration Chart (with pressure drop)
Pulse-width Modulated flow control allows you to change travel speed by a factor of about five without a change in spray pressure. This chart shows which nozzle flow rates to use. Note the significant...
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Spray Quality and Volume Matrix
We often write about how valuable water sensitive paper can be to visualize and assess the coverage we’re getting from a specific application method. A handy reference is this matrix that combines...
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Unit conversion tables
Canada, like most of the world, is officially Metric. Our American friends are US Imperial. It sounds very cut and dried, doesn’t it? Anyone that’s tried to calibrate a sprayer in Canada quickly...
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Mode of Action and Spray Quality
Post-emergent herbicide performance depends on many factors. Aside from application timing and rate, water volume and spray quality are among the most important variables that are under the users’...
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Arag microjet rate tables
A new variety of Arag microjets is available to ginseng growers. They are an improvement over the older version insofar as they are more easily calibrated and held at a given rate thanks to a lock nut....
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When Jason and I launched the Sprayers101 website in June, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Seven short months and 150 posts later, we’re stoked to have had such a great response. About 70,000 page...
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OrchardMAX
What is OrchardMAX? OrchardMAX is a free app developed by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs to improve sprayer efficiency and effectiveness in apple orchards. The app is based...
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