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AutoPot Smart Valve Mk3i | Wicking Float Valve

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The Smart-valve, the heart of Autopot® Systems. - this unit controls the water level in a module (or your own tray) to give your plants the wet-dry cycle. Over thirty years of trials, refinement and development have resulted in today’s Smart-valve. Today’s version remains true to the original working principles with refinements to allow adjustability for even more reliable performance.

Unlike a conventional ball cock type float valve, the Smart-valve allows total reduction of the fluid level before it refills. When connected to a water supply (which can be from either pressure reduced mains, pressure pump (like the Autopot® Smart Pump Set) or gravity tank) the valve opens to allow water to enter the bottom of the growing container to a set depth (approx 35mm). The valve then closes and will not permit further water to enter the container until all the original supply has been used up by the pot. This absorption is achieved by capillary action that naturally occurs in the growing medium. Once the water has been absorbed to the extent that the film of water under the valve has gone, the valve re-opens and another supply of water enters the growing container: wet-dry cycles dictated by the pot's own rate of consumption.

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  • [1] x AutoPot Smart Valve Mk3i | Wicking Float Valve

Resource Efficiency

  • Where water is scarce, AutoPot® Systems has no water wastage or nutrient run-off.

Ease Of Use

  • No electricity is required as AutoPot® Systems can be run by gravity. If pumping is used, the amount of energy required is so small that a single car battery powered by the sun would be sufficient to produce 25 tons of tomatoes annually!

Environmentally Friendly

  • Without nutrient run-off, there is no pollution.

Flexibility

  • Take agriculture to places previously thought impossible such as non-productive or marginal land and building rooftops. Where soil is poor, AutoPot® Systems can produce good crops out of pure sand or gravel.

Automation

  • Farming on a commercial scale is easier and less labourious.

Consistency

  • Crop yields and quantity are consistent and of premium grade.