Planning Your Watering Schedule; Guidelines For Watering; Selecting The Right Program - Irritrol 500 Serie Guía De Instalación Y Operación

PLANNING YOUR WATERING SCHEDULE

Guidelines For Watering

There are several factors to be considered when deciding when and how long
to water. For example, the soil type (i.e., clay, loam, etc.), the part of the land-
scape being watered, climate conditions and the type of sprinklers being used.
Because of these variables, we cannot provide an exact schedule to follow,
but here are some general watering guidelines to help you get started.
• Water early in the morning, one to two hours before sunrise. You will have
the best water pressure at this time and the water can soak into the plant
root zone while evaporation is minimal. Watering during mid-day or in the
evening may cause plant damage or mildew.
• For new lawns where frequent watering is required, take advantage of the
multiple start time feature of the 500 series controller. Each watering pro-
gram cycle can be started up to four times per day.
• If under- or over-watering signs are observed, adjust program immediately.

Selecting The Right Program

The controller provides several options that allow simple, flexible program-
ming. The dual program feature provides the ability to water individual areas of
the yard on separate schedules.
A typical example of how these programs might be used, would be to assign
all lawn zones to program A and all shrub zones to program B. Since the
watering demands are generally quite different for lawns and shrubs, dual pro-
gramming enables watering days and start times to be tailored specifically for
each type of plant material.
On the following pages are some guidelines for planning your automatic water-
ing programs. We recommend taking a few moments to review this information
and filling in the watering schedule from provided.
The following instructions include how to set the current time and day, run time
for each zone, assigning zones to programs, setting program start times and
setting the watering day schedule.
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