Irricad

Hi Irricad
Firstly Happy New Year, hope you all had a good break.
I'm designing a drip block with on line drippers, I used spray block to set it up. I've done an outlet connectivity check and all valves are connected , no issues shown.
IrriCad will not run through the block hydraulics, I get a warning message IDE_DES_404 The maximum number of pipe connections has been exceeded. What's the solution?
Regards
Andy Laing

Hi Andy,

Happy New Year to you also.
How did you connect the submain pipe or valves. It sounds like there is either a bad connection or loops of pipe. The Help|Help Topics - Technical Reference->Screen Messages->Error Messages gives advice on what can be done (see below). To find the junction look at the items you connected manually.

DES 404 : The maximum number of pipe connections has been exceeded
There are more than four objects connected at a single junction.
Delete or move some of the objects to reduce the number to four or less.
If more than four objects are to be connected at a junction, divide the objects into two groups, joined by a short length of pipe i.e. create two junctions.

Regards,

Jo

Hi Joe
I put them in automatically using the spray irrigation block design (start). I then deleted them and put them in manually to check if there was a connection error, I still get the same warning. There are no more than 3 pipes connected at any location ie lateral take offs.
regards
Andy Laing

Hi Andy,

Can you send the design to Support@IRRICAD.com and I will have a look.

Regards,

Jo

This error message means there are too many items in the zone - there is a limit of 5000 pipes.
Unfortunately the message description in the manual is incorrect.

As a general rule if there are many drippers / emitters on a lateral enable the "Connected" option in the Sprayline dialog.
If there are 10 or less emitters on a lateral definitely use unconnected (uncheck the "Connected" option.

For more information see Help|Help Topics - User Manual->Advanced Topics->Spraylines, Tapes and Minor Losses.