SECTION 5 WEATHER
®
making
since 1986
water work
You have the option of enabling or disabling the use
of rain (negative hold over) for any of the controller’s
seven programs. If you select YES, rain (negative
hold over) will be used for that program to reduce
irrigation run times. If you select NO, rain will have
no effect on irrigation run times for that program.
If there is no rain bucket installed and you are not
sharing rain data through the Calsense Command
Center program, these settings will have no effect on
irrigation.
5.
Press the
PLUS
or
MINUS
keys to
change the setting.
6.
Press the blue
ARROW
keys to
move the cursor to the next entry.
7.
Press the
MAIN MENU
key to return
to the MAIN MENU screen
(Figure 5.1).
THIS CONCLUDES RAIN SETUP WITH RAIN
BUCKET INSTALLED
2. Rain setup ( Without Rain Bucket
installed ) and you are sharing rain to
controller.
From the WEATHER SETUP screen (Figure 5.2).
1.
Press the
RAIN BUCKET
Menu key.
The RAIN BUCKET SETUP screen is displayed
(Figure 5.12).
Let Rain Only Build up to 1.50 inches
RAIN BUCKET SETUP
setings. This controller does not
Rain Bucket controllers have 3 more
have a -RB interface.
Set Use of Rain by Program
Figure 5.12
If a controller is not wired to a rain bucket, the RAIN
BUCKET SETUP screen will only have one setting
(Figure 5.12). This setting is described below:
•
Let Rain Only Build Up to:
This setting
determines the maximum amount of rain
that can be stored in the rain table. In
figure 5.12 the controller will stop storing
rain data in the rain table if the
Maximum 24 Hour Total reaches
1.50
inches of rain.
If you are not sharing rain data using the Calsense
Command Center software, this setting will have no
effect on irrigation.
2.
Use the
PLUS
or
MINUS
key to
change the setting.
•
Set Use of Rain by Program:
This
section describes how to enable the
use of rain in the ET2000 controller.
Each program can be set individually
to either use or not use rain to offset
irrigation run times.
From the RAIN BUCKET SETUP screen
(Figure 5.12).
3.
Press the
SET USE OF RAIN BY
PROGRAM
Menu key.
The USE OF RAIN BY PROGRAM screen is
displayed (Figure 5.13).
PROG A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .YES
PROG B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .YES
USE OF RAIN BY PROGRAM
which acts to cancel irrigation.
Rain causes negative hold-over to build
Allow RAIN on the following:
DRIP 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . YES
PROG C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .YES
PROG D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .YES
PROG E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .YES
DRIP 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . YES
Figure 5.13
Here you will have the option of enabling or
disabling the use of negative hold-over (rain) for any
of the controller’s seven programs. If you select
YES, rain (negative hold over) will be used for that
program to reduce irrigation run times. If you select
NO, rain will have no effect on irrigation run times for
that program.
