1800 Pop-Up to Drip 6-Emitter Drip Irrigation Conversion Kit

We installed Rainbird Spray emitters earlier this year and decided to swap out the heads with drip emitters. No problem- Rainbird makes compatible components for easy “plug-and-play”. This kit includes a 30 psi pressure regulator and manifold that allows up to 6 drip emitters on 1/4-inch distribution tubing (50-ft included). Emitter head and feed lines lie above the ground (cover with mulch or rocks). For optimal performance, one to eight emitters can run off a single sprinkler head. Additional kids can be run in series to add additional ports (leave covers on outlets to customize for your needs). If your spray is a Rain Bird 1800 Series, just unscrew the cap and insert the contents from this kit into the spray body. If your spray head is another brand, dig up the riser, unscrew the original spray head and replace it.

This worked out well for me. It wasn’t just a regular sprinkler body. It has a large really nice fine meshed filter inside the body to trap dirt and debris before it gets to the droppers. The kits come with a 6 port head and a lot of 1/4” line to allow you to configure your drip lines to many different plants and situations. I added some micro fans to the system to make it work for me. I am very pleased with the kit.

This is one of the coolest products I have seen come down the line in quite a while! I was always bothered by how much water is wasted by sprinklers, but no more! Now I have run individual lines to each of my plants instead of watering the whole area! All with the convenience of your standard sprinkler system. The hardest part about installing this is digging up the old sprinkler pop up. You will have to carefully dig down to the line, remove and surrounding soil, then unscrew the original line and screw this one in its place. Thats all there is to it! Then uncap as many lines as you like and run them to each individual plant. Everything you need to complete the project is in the box, but I decided to purchase a mini bubbler to distribute the water to a couple of plants at the same time. All in all, this is a great product and very simple to install!

We wanted to change our shrub and flower watering from broad spectrum to point source with minimal effort. The Rain Bird 1800 Pop-Up to Drip 6-Emitter Drip Irrigation Conversion Kit, Blacks was a great way to easily convert our existing system to drip irrigation. This not only save on water by eliminating over spray but actually provides water directly to the plants which allows for shorter watering cycles. The conversion kit comes with everything you need to get started. Simply replace a 1/2" sprinkler head with the converter and run the drip lines to you plants. We have replaced all our fan sprinklers with drip irrigation and our gardens our more vibrant than ever and our water bill has been reduced.

Rain Bird 1800 Pop-Up to Drip 6-Emitter Drip Irrigation Conversion Kit, Blacks is another good quality product from Rainbird. Kind of innovative although i have seen others doing this as well now. I wish the kit had little more pipe included, but will have to check if they sell it separately. Overall i would recommend this to anyone who wants to convert their existing popup to drip.

Thank You Rain Bird for this conversion kit! It solved a couple of problems for me. Our back yard has "xeriscape" landscaping. Its all rock ground cover with several pigmy date palms and a few other low maintenance plants. The original irrigation system was a Rain Bird system with strategically placed pop up sprayers that covered all the plants. We now have a large "barrel" planter with a palm in it. I also have mature plants that are now blocking the existing pop up sprayers. I was able to run 2 drip lines to the barrel planter and individual drip lines to several other plants with one kit. The install was very easy and worked well. I was able to run the drip lines up the side of the planter and secure them with small staples. The line was not hard to bury after I let it lay in the hot sun then massaged it with my thumbs to get it to relax and lay flat. I secured in in the small trench with a few landscape cloth staples before covering it.

The Rainbird Drip conversion kit makes it very easy to turn an existing pop up sprinkler into a six line drip emitter. When we first moved into our house the yard was nothing but grass, and we’ve been turning more of it into garden beds every year. The old high volume sprinkler heads don’t work well for that and converting them to drip lines required a pile of parts and a lot of time. The Rainbird kit makes it easy, remove the old sprinkler body and replace with the Rainbird. It’s sized to install on a ½” male thread, so if you are replacing a ¾” sprinkler head, you’ll need an adapter (not included) to do that. The sprinkler body includes a very large filter and a pressure regulator, so the drip emitters won’t clog and you won’t blow the heads off with too much pressure. Although there are only six lines out from the top of the sprinkler, you can expand that by using some “T” connectors to branch out more if needed. You can also expand the system with RainBird's 1/4" dripline tubing. The instructions say you’ll need to “cap” other sprinkler heads in the same zone when installing the kit, but I’ve had no problems using it in conjunction with existing sprinklers.

Conversion kit worked exactly as advertised. I have already recommended it to several people, including several handymen who were not aware if it's existence.

I replaced several spray sprinkler heads with these and it couldn't be easier. I did have to buy 1/2" risers for each one though. The spray heads I was replacing stuck 12" up above the ground so I bought some 2" long risers and teflon tape. I have since purchased two more kits. Way more tubing than we've needed so far.