Mark Brunnr wrote:The nice bit with having the bucket exposed is that despite the weep hole the bucket will remain full from the ongoing rain landing in the bucket. Only after it stops raining and has had some time to drain does it reset, so you arent losing that diverters worth of water as often as the T it would seem.
I didn't consider the ongoing rain! Whenever I think about diverters like this I have this gut feeling that it's throwing away a few gallons every few minutes, but this is totally untrue so long as the vessel has an adequately large opening compared to the weep hole. Fascinating.
