%0 Journal Article %T Altura da lamina, tempo e volume de enchimento de um equipamento de irriga£¿£¿o por pavio e determina£¿£¿o da uniformidade de distribui£¿£¿o de ¨¢gua em substratos %A Ferrarezi %A Rhuanito Soranz %A Santos %A Leonardo Naz¨¢rio Silva dos %A Sousa %A Allan Charles Mendes de %A Pereira %A Francisca Franciana Sousa %A Elaiuy %A Marcelo Leite Conde %A Torrel %A Uilson %A Matsura %A Edson Eiji %J Bragantia %D 2012 %I Instituto Agron?mico de Campinas %R 10.1590/S0006-87052012005000015 %X the aims of this study were to evaluate the water depth, filling time and volume in a wick irrigation equipment using auto compensating gutters and to determine the water distribution uniformity (wdu) in these equipments filled with organic commercial substrates (pine bark/pb and coconut coir/cc). we assembled two experimental modules in a completely randomized design with five replications. there was variation in water depth measurements (1.6 to 4.0 cm), even with the equipment leveled. average filling time was 6h22min for module 1 with pb and 3h45min for module 2 with cc. the filling volume was variable, showing that gutters in the extremities (no. 1 and 5) had lower volumes in module 1 and in the beginning (no. 1 and 2) in module 2. volumetric soil moisture (¦È) ranged from 42 to 94% in module 1 and from 24 to 72% in module 2, with isolated points of desiccation and/or flooding. water depth, filling time and volume were disuniform in all experimental modules and auto compensating gutters, indicating equipment imperfections. water distribution was variable in both substrates due to their hydro-physical characteristics and also water depth in the gutters, with higher humidity and water distribution uniformity in pine bark than in coconut coir. %K capillarity %K coconut coir %K pine bark %K subirrigation. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0006-87052012005000015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en