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Sat Mar 31, 2012 4:38 pm
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gtreece
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Pardon the pun, but I'm trying to 'soak' all this in. I'm setting up a single EZFlora (I have 8 physical zones on my system), and now working to set up schedules.
My previous scheme with dedicated sprinkler controller:
Restrictions:
limited to certain days of week, and certain hours of day, based on city code, and wind that usually picks up in the afternoon.
Setup:
All zones but one, run every Tue, Thur and Sat
All zones run short duration, 3 times on each watering day (soil doesn't absorb quickly, so multiple short durations needed to avoid runoff, while still putting out proper amount of water)
One zone covers a small garden, rather than lawn, and hence runs every day, same short duration and multiple run times
Now I'm trying to determine whether the regular sprinkler controller schedule, or your sprinkler plugin, will yield better results for me.
It looks like with the regular controller, I could do 3 scheduled start times, and give each zone a run time in that schedule. It looks like I'd have to do that for the stand alone zone as well. This seems familiar, compared to the way my dedicated sprinkler controller works.
For your plugin, it looks like I'd have to setup individual schedule for each zone, for each start time, maybe setting each one to start immediately for a set number of minutes? It's confusing my on the zone setup, having to specify a number of run minutes for each day. While I do know how many minutes to run each zone each day, it's broken up over three different run times, and it doesn't look like I can tell the virtual zone device that. In the virtual zone setup, would I actually enter the number of minutes for each start time, and not the actual total number of minutes of run time per day? An then do 3 different schedules to start the daily irrigation?