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13.
FLOW SENSOR
13.4.1 Introduction to Flow
The LXME2 controller offers a wide variety of flow-related functionality to utilize your system more
efficiently, with or without additional flow sensing hardware.
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See here for examples of flow sensor installations
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13.4.2 FloZones Overview
The FloZone is the group of stations connected to the Master Valve. The LXME2 supports 1 FloZone.
Non Irrigation Stations are not part of the FloZone.
13.4.3 Flow Management Features
After setting the
and FloZones for your system, the next step is to decide which flow-
related features you’d like to use.
The LXME2 controller flow features can be divided into two different functional groups; Flo-
Manager® and FloWatch.
Flo-Manager®
Flo-Manager® adds basic hydraulic management features to your system to ensure that sufficient
water pressure and volume is available to operate all stations.
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Although it is helpful, flow sensing hardware is not required to use Flo-Manager®. You can manually enter
estimated flow rates even if flow sensing hardware is not installed.
Flo-Watch™
FloWatch allows you to use any or all of the Flo-Manager® features but adds additional functionality
such as alarms for high flow and low flow situations based on parameters you set and control. See
“
” for more details.
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Flow sensing hardware is required to use FloWatch.
13.1 Flow Sensors
This menu item is the same as Setup -
. If you have already set up a flow sensor then it
should appear here.