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Introduction
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ESP-Me Advanced User Manual
Introduction
Welcome to Rain Bird
Thank you for choosing the ESP-Me Modular Controller
from Rain Bird.
For more than 70 years, the world’s top irrigation
contractors have chosen Rain Bird for the highest quality
products and services available worldwide.
The ESP-Me Controller
Your new Rain Bird controller is designed to provide
many years of advanced irrigation control.
The indoor model comes with a wall plug-in transformer
that can only be used for indoor mounting, while the
outdoor model comes with an internal transformer and
lead wires for direct wiring to your power source. The
outdoor model can be used either outdoor or indoor.
Controller Features
The ESP-Me Controller has a variety of advanced water
management features, including:
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The base unit comes standard with 4 stations and is
expandable up to 22 stations with 3 or 6 station modules.
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The controller supports a master valve or pump start
relay and a rain sensor.
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4 available programs (A,B,C,D) can be set to water on
selected days of the week, odd or even calendar days, or
custom intervals (cyclic) to provide flexibility and control
of irrigation schedules.
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: Only one program can run at a time.
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6 start times for each program allow you to run the same
program several times a day.
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Automatic alarm alerts indicate when problems such as
shorted stations or if incomplete programming exists.
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Seasonal Adjust quickly increases or decreases watering
duration based on seasonal weather conditions. Setting
can be applied to a specific program or to ALL programs.
Range is from 200% down to 5%.
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Delay Watering (Rain Delay) can prevent irrigation for up
to 14 days. After the period expires, it resumes scheduled
programming.
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Manual Water Station or Program allows immediate
watering of an individual station or an entire program.
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Test All Stations verifies proper operation of all the valves
in the system.
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Total Run Time Calculator By Program allows you to
know what the watering duration will be by program
for one start time. Add up all program total run times to
determine duration of the entire watering cycle.
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Sensor Bypass by Station allows you to set any station to
ignore the rain sensor.
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Hot swappable modules means you don’t have to
disconnect the power source to install or remove a
module.
The following do not require a
9V battery to maintain:
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Date and Time are maintained up to 10 years by an
internal Lithium battery.
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Programs and Settings are permanently stored in
controllers non-volatile memory.
