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Moisture Sensor Setup
Sensor Assignment
MOISTURE SENSING SETUP
Moisture Sensing in Use ?
USE BY PROGRAM :
PROG A
YES
YES
PROG B
YES
PROG C
YES
PROG D
NO
PROG E
NO
DRIP
1
NO
DRIP
2
NO
MOISTURE SENSOR ASSIGNMENT
Station
0 1
02
03
04
05 06
07
08
09
10
Sensor
01
01
01
07 07
07
07
10
10
Station
11
12
13
14
15 16
17
18
19
20
Sensor
10
10
13
13
13 13
19
19
19
19
Station
2 1
22
23
24
Sensor
24
24
24
24
Station
Sensor
0 1
STATION PROGRAMMING
Station 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PROG A
Total Mins :
Mins per Cycle :
5
Soak-In Time :
60
No Water Day 0
Max Days:
00
Moist Set:
75
Moist Read:
7 1
MASTER
15.0
Test
From the Weather Setup screen, Press the
MOISTURE
Menu Key, the Moisture Sensing Setup screen will appear. To enable
moisture sensing, Press the
PLUS
or
MINUS
Key to change the default setting from NO to YES, the Moisture Sensing Setup
screen will then appear as shown above. Press an
ARROW
Key to move the cursor to the desired program setting, Press the
PLUS
or
MINUS
Key to change the setting to YES on the programs you wish to use moisture sensing on. To set moisture sensor
assignments, Press the
SENSOR ASSIGNMENT
Menu Key, the Moisture Sensor Assignment screen will appear (shown below).
From the Moisture Sensor Assignment screen you will assign each station to a moisture sensor. All stations that have a moisture
sensor physically wired to it are assigned a sensor number the same as the it’s station number, these stations are know as a
Master. In the example above stations 1, 7, 10, 13, 19 and 24 are Master stations. All other valves will use the readings from one
of the Master stations. This is done by assigning each of these stations to a Master station. In the example above stations 2, 3
and 4 have been assigned to station 1, stations 5, 6 and 8 have been assigned to station 7, etc.
After moisture sensing has been setup, the Station Programming screen will appear as shown above for a Master station. Each
of the settings are described below:
Moist Read:
This is the moisture sensor’s last moisture reading, a new reading is taken before each irrigation
cycle. In the example above the last moisture reading was 71.
Moist Set:
This is the moisture set point (programmed by the user), it determines at what moisture reading
the controller will reduce irrigation time. If the moisture reading is more that the set point, irrigation
time will be reduced until the moisture reading is less than the set point. In the example above
the moisture set point is 75 and the moisture reading is 71, in this case the controller will irrigate
the full programmed time.
Max Days:
This setting allows the user to override moisture sensing, that is the controller will irrigate whatever
has been programmed by the user, no matter what the moisture reading is. This can be set
from 1 to 31 days.
MASTER or USES SENSOR #: This is for information only, each station is labeled either a Master or labeled with the moisture
sensor it was assigned to.
