#OPENSPRINKLER FLOW METER INSTALL#
#OPENSPRINKLER FLOW METER MANUAL#

#OPENSPRINKLER FLOW METER INSTALL#

If you install the optional flow meter with your Hunter Pro-HC, the system will also monitor your piping and sprinklers. This allows you to correct a failed valve before damage is done to plant materials. If the current is too high or too low, Hydrawise (the Hunter Pro-HC software) will alert you and tell you which valve is not working properly. Pro-HC controllers continuously monitor the electrical current flowing to your solenoid valves.

#OPENSPRINKLER FLOW METER MANUAL#

Designed to allow manual control, program management (preview, add, edit, and delete), initiation of a run-once program, viewing graphical and tabulated representations of log data, viewing device status, adjusting rain delay, and changing of OpenSprinkler. Intelligent irrigation controllers not only adjust watering times daily for each zone but they also monitor the condition of your system. OpenSprinkler - The application allows you to automatically detect and control your OpenSprinkler irrigation system(s). OpenSprinkler-App Public A mobile interface for the OpenSprinkler irrigation device. It also gives you the flexibility of operating your controller from any computer or smart phone. This allows for daily adjustments of watering times and schedules to balance water savings with water efficiency for plants. For example, our most popular model, the Hunter Pro-HC, has daily schedule adjustments (based on local weather data), monitors past, current and forecasted temperature, rainfall, humidity, and wind speed. Intelligent irrigation or ‘smart’ controllers address these issues. Therefore a whole zone could potentially not be getting water and the only way you will be notified is when you see damage to your plant material or property. There’s no way to know if there is a leak or break in the system, or if a valve or solenoid goes bad (or if rodents have gotten into the valve box and chewed on the wires). It would be ideal if we could be there every day to adjust the system as needed for each individual zone.Ī standard controller has no detection or alarm system. This is acceptable but causes us to use more water than actually needed. To ensure your landscape has the water needed we have to always schedule times for the hottest & driest days of each part of the season. We should then come out and do another “mid-season adjustment “ to shorten those times for early Fall until closing. We come out and do a “mid-season adjustment“ to lengthen those times for the heat of summer, from late June through August. This is a great source for the latest OpenSprkler documents. We cannot be there every day to change those times based on weekly rainfall, temperature, or weather so we use settings that are good from April to late June. The OpenSprinkler v1.4+ User Manual (updated May 31, 2015) is the basis for this document. When we open sprinkler systems in the spring, we set the times when irrigation should turn on and for how long it should run. A standard controller is nothing more than a timer.

Opensprinkler flow meter