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ENCLOSURE 3 FLAG LETTER DEFINITIONS
making
since 1986
water work
Flag Letter Definitions
For Controller
LETTER DESCRIPTION
DEFINITION
S Short
Circuit
During normally scheduled irrigation or during scheduled
manual hold over a short circuit was detected. The valve is
turned off and the remaining irrigation time is thrown away.
At the next scheduled irrigation the valve will try again.
O No
Current
During normally scheduled irrigation or during scheduled
manual hold-over, an open circuit was detected. This is a
passive alert. The valve stayed on and completed its irrigation.
C Low
Current
A low current situation was detected. Not yet implemented or
used.
I High
Current
A high current situation was detected. Not yet implemented or
used.
A
Tail Ends
Adjustment
During normally scheduled irrigation or during scheduled
manual hold-over, the Tail-Ends adjustment caused a portion
of the scheduled time not to run. The time to irrigate was less
than 5% of the cycle time. (FYI: When the residual time is
between 5% & 20% of the cycle time it is evenly divided up
among the cycles that do run.)
L Low
Flow
During normally scheduled irrigation or during scheduled
manual hold-over, flow was tested and this valve failed the
LOW FLOW
test. The action taken is controlled by the Alert
Actions settings.
H High
Flow
During normally scheduled irrigation or during scheduled
manual hold-over, flow was tested and this valve failed the
HIGH FLOW
test. The action taken is controlled by the Alert
Actions settings.
U
Flow Not Checked
For one reason or another flow could not be checked during
one of the cycles that this station ran during normally
scheduled irrigation or during scheduled manual hold-over. In
field service mode you will get an elaborate alert detailing the
conditions that could prevent flow from being checked.
W No
water
The scheduled programmed irrigation did not apply any time
for this station because
NO WATER
days were set.
R Rain
switch
The
RAIN SWITCH
caused the programmed irrigation to cut
short or to not be applied at all. In addition whenever a
RAIN
BUCKET
causes programmed irrigation to be affected (either
through polling or sharing) this flag is set. So it’s a dual use
flag: used to indicate Rain Switch and Rain Bucket activities.
This flag will be set if the above rain events occur during
scheduled manual hold-over.
B
Main Line Break
A
MAINLINE BREAK
affected the programmed irrigation.
Either it did not start or it was cut short when the mainline
break occurred. This flag will be set if the mainline break
occurs during scheduled manual hold-over.
