Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Finally .... irrigation
After few months of adding and removing irrigation spray nozzles and adding dripper's finely no water running down the street. If fact no water on the street and very little on my sidewalks, Plus not watering where plants aren't. Which means less weed control. I see some water run off water the streets for 30 mins or more. I don't like waste
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I am just about done converting our front/side beds to drip irrigating. Needed to install two new main lines, build a couple of distribution manifolds and installed about 60 micro heads. Still have some overspray for the lawn zones. tough to get perfect coverage when on a corner lot. Looking forward to lower irrigation bills and healthier shrubs and flowers. Don
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I'll admit grass sprinklers are lot harder or control. I've got little grass so on the 1/4 inch lines I removed the spray nozzles and put star head drippers that are adjustable. Before I was watering the everywhere which encouraged weeds to pop up. No the water in directed on the plants and not the rocks.
Cable company drilled into my main line on side street, I was able to bypass that section due to it was looped. Cut and blocked pass the burst spots and tied in to the loop that came back around. I made diagram so I know where the lines are running. Now I have no irrigation close off the street, all up against my outside wall. |
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I like tinkering also. Keeps me from being bored |
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The the sprinkler pop up head. If not mowers or cars will damage them or the main line below. Also, on most the the pop ups won't retreat back down and stick up I dig down enough to hole the base and unscrew the top and pull the guts out, clean the seal above the spring and shaft. This usually works, if not I just change the guts with spare parts I have from replacing some. |
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Had Massey adjust the sprinkler irrigation system for the late spring monsoon season...Checked with him, said early morning for 10 minutes, three times a week, for the four sections..
Week later, firing off for 40 minutes or so at 5pm...and 8pm for an hour the next day...Hand to turn the big round knob from auto, to off.....Thinking about the Wi Fi control box for this areas weather conditions, install it, and forget it.. Like the Nest thermostat, for the the furnace, and Ac.... |
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The smart irrigation systems easily pay for themselves. The use predictive logic, not only has it rained but will it rain, did it rain based upon the predictions made, when was the last time irrigated, what was the evaporation and drainage rate. It is not uncommon to have 20 adjustments every month. Rachio is now on their third generation, the second is fine with the third providing actual water used per zone.
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Hunter Pro-C Controller
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I suggest learning basic settings of how your "Pro-C" controller works rather than depending on others. I've included the Owners Manual link below. I believe the most misunderstood part is the "Solar Sync" (Seasonal Adjustment) it readjusts the number of watering minutes (percentage) every night, depending on weather conditions and time of year. It does that no matter if the Active/Bypass switch is on or not. Always set the number of watering minutes when the Seasonal Adjustment is at 100%. You will notice that overnight, the Seasonal Adjustment will automatically change to 60-70% (right now in April) Look at the watering minutes that also changed. Adjust at 100% until you get the desired number of watering minutes when controller changes the seasonal adjustment. Confusing I know until you look at it. Also Villagevip, make sure that you only have one single start time for all 4 zones (and that will be for program A) Do not program anything into B or C. I think that's your problem. Link below shows what I mean. Pro-C - Station Repeats | Hunter IndustriesEither that or you programmed multiple start times for each zone. There should only be one start time total. Pro-C Owners Manual https://www.hunterindustries.com/sit...OM_ProC_EM.pdf There are also loads of youtube videos that make it easier to understand than I can explain. Good luck! It's all actually easier than you think. |
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