Watering Program Basics
The following example illustrates how a typical watering program could be set up for the sprinkler system shown on the previous page.
The diagram at the right depicts the watering program in a timeline format.
Example: The program start time is set for 3:00 a.m. Lawn stations 1 and 2 each have a run time of 10 min- utes and lawn station 4 is set to run for 20 minutes. note that stations 3 and 5 water shrubs and flowers and have been excluded from this program. (These stations will be set to operate on a separate program).
As shown in the watering program diagram, at 3:00 a.m. the controller starts the program watering cycle.
Station 1 sprinklers run for 10 minutes and shut off. next, station 2 sprinklers turn on, run for 10 minutes and shut off. The controller skips station 3, and turns on station 4 which runs for 20 minutes and shuts off. Station 5 is skipped and the watering cycle ends at 3:40 a.m.
As you can see from this example, only one program start time was needed to operate three different stations.
Using more than one program for example, would enable lawn zones to be watered every day on program A, shrub zones to run on on Monday, Wednesday and Friday on program B and drip irrigation to soak the flower beds every three days on program C.
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Watering Program Diagram
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