Key takeaways
- Use the spreadsheet to compute minimum boom heights; enter your actual fan angle because some nozzles do not match advertised angles.
- Values are theoretical and assume accurate fan angles and projected droplet paths; gravity pulls droplets down after about 50 to 75 cm affecting spread.
- Use the 0% overlap and nozzle spacing columns to set band width and prevent banding.
- Angling nozzles forward or backward lowers required boom height but wind deflection limits this; too high a boom increases drift.
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Use this spreadsheet to calculate the minimum boom heights needed for various applications.
Some caution:
- The values are theoretical and assume the fan angles are accurate. Some nozzles don’t produce the advertised fan angle. Enter your actual angle in the spreadsheet
- The theory assumes that the droplets at the edge of the fan always move in their projected direction. In fact, after some distance (say 50 to 75 cm, gravity pulls the droplets down and the pattern no longer widens at the same rate. The rate of pattern collapse depends on the droplet sizes.
- Use the 0% overlap column to help with banding nozzle pattern width. Simply use the nozzle spacing column to enter your desired band width.
- Note that angling the nozzles forward or backward decreases your minimum boom height, but depending on the deflection of the spray in the wind, this too has limits.
- Too high a boom obviously increases drift. But patternation from overlap isn’t affected that much, largely because the pattern is now subject to aerodynamics.
