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Old 07-03-2024, 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by rsmurano View Post
What a waste of water. Every house should be using a smart sprinkler controller and not the dumb Hunter controllers they put in each house.
For $60, you can swap out the hunter controller in 5 mins, install the new smart controller, and then take 15-30 mins programming your new smart controller.
While you are programming your new smart controller, you can point it to the many homes that have personal weather stations near you to get the most reliable data for the controller to use when calculating when it should run the sprinklers and for how long.
Many other benefits too, like turning on a station from your phone from anywhere in the world or inside your house. No more running to the garage to start and stop a station.
It's very common for The Villages to have all, or many of their sprinklers ON after, and many times DURING very heavy rains. This has prompted disbelief for years, but the explanation given is that it's an automated program that can significantly prevent flooding of one or more retention ponds. Not uncommon to drive down a main thoroughfare in a heavy downpour and see all watering systems along both sides in full operation.