CS3000 User’s Guide
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Calsense
Budgets
Water budgets are an essential tool in planning and managing landscape water use. The Calsense smart
controllers use EPA calculations to develop a water budget around each user’s unique site and water
restrictions. The CS3000 offers three distinct budget options: Manually Entered, Calculated using
Annual, and Calculated with ET. The Budget feature gives the customer more control of the amount of
water used by applying the necessary amount of water, at the right time, for sustainable long-term plant
life.
Irrigating Using a Budget
Before comparing actual usage to a budget, it is important to define the budget value. Each mainline can
have a unique budget.
Note:
If there is no flow meter in the system, the station’s expected flow rate will be used instead of
actual flow for budgeting purposes.
To configure a budget for a mainline:
1.
From Main Menu, navigate to
Budgets
and select
Budget Setup
. The Budget Setup screen
displays.
2.
Navigate to the desired Mainline.
3.
For Compare use to a budget and select
Yes
to enable use of a budget. Several fields display to
configure the budget.
4.
For POC budget amount, select from one of the budget modes.
Manually Entered
provides the
ability to enter a budget value for each period. This is commonly used when attempting to stay
within a billing tier. These numbers can come from past water bills and then see what the
monthly average was for each month.
Calculated using Annual
allows entry of a single annual
value that is distributed among the billing periods based on monthly historical ET values. This is
used when a customer is given an annual water budget, the controller will take that budget and
compare what the historical ET of each month was to find what the monthly budget is.
Calculated using ET
calculates the monthly budgets based on a percent of ET instead of a fixed
water budget. The initial calculation will use historical ET to calculate the budget and then adjust
the budget as real time ET numbers come in.
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If selecting
Manually Entered
(Figure 56):
Figure 56: Manually Entered Budget Setup Screen
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