Getting The Most From Your Rain Dial Controller - Irritrol Rain Dial-R Guide De L'utilisateur

Getting the Most from Your Rain Dial-R Controller
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• What is an Automatic Program Watering Cycle? – An automatic
watering Program begins at its earliest assigned start time on a
scheduled watering day . The lowest valve station number assigned
to the Program, turns on and operates the sprinklers for the specified
run time duration . When finished, the next valve station in numeric
order (with an assigned run time in the Program) begins operation .
The Program Watering Cycle continues until all valve stations with
an assigned run time in the Program have operated .
• Why Three Programs? – A typical residential landscape
various sections of lawn, shrubs, trees and ground cover, all of which
require watering on different schedules for optimum plant health and
conservation . To accommodate this, the Rain Dial-R provides three
independent watering Programs: A, B and C .
The example below shows how multiple Programs can be used to
easily accomplish this :
Program Start Time
A (#1) 5:00 AM
B (#1) 3:00 PM
C (#1) 4:00 AM
(#2) 7:30 PM
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Valve # Location
1 Front Lawn 15 min.
2 Back yard
3 Side Yard
4 Trees (drip) 2 hrs.
5 Garden
5 Garden
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Run Time Schedule
Odd
15 min. Odd
10 min. Odd
Mon
5 min. Skip Days, 1
5 min. Skip Days, 1