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    Using Manual Irrigation

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    When manually irrigating stations, you can choose to irrigate a single station, multiple stations, or stations that are part of a program. Each mode has its own tab, as seen below. 



    Single Station

    To manually irrigate a single Station, from the SINGLE tab:


    1. Change the default time to the amount the Station needs to manually irrigate for by pressing the Default Timer button and selecting a time from the list. The new time will be reflected in the button.



    2.  Select a Station by pressing the Station's corresponding Timer button, which will populate the button with the default time - turning it blue.


    3.  Press the START button, and the Station will begin to operate once the Controller receives the command.



    4. The Station will operate for the duration chosen and once the timer hits 00:00, watering will cease.

    5.  To stop the Station from operating, press the STOP button at any time.

     


    6.  Advancing to a different Station while the current Station is being operated can be accomplished two different ways.

    • Select another Station's Timer button, and it will blink three times before starting operation. At any time during the blinking sequence, the Timer button is pressed, it will cancel the start command.

    • Select the up or down buttons on either side of the STOP button to advance one station in the direction of the button.

     



    Multiple Stations

    To manually irrigate multiple Stations, from the MULTIPLE tab:

    There are two methods of manual irrigation that can occur from this tab, depending on the WeatherTRAK controller type. Stacked and Overlap options will become available for any OptiFlow enabled controller, otherwise Stacked will be the only method performed. 

    Stacked: The selected Stations will operate one at a time, sequentially.


    Overlap: The selected Stations will operate at the same time, simultaneously. 


    1.  Change the default time to the amount the Stations need to manually irrigate for by pressing the Default Timer button and selecting a time from the list. The new time will be reflected in the button.



    2.  Select each Station by pressing the Station's corresponding Timer button, which will populate the button with the default time - turning it blue.


    Stacked mode (standard controllers) allows for the selection of as many Stations as there are associated with the controller.


    Overlap mode (OptiFlow enabled controllers) will present a "System Capacity" bar that will show you how many Stations have been selected out of the nine (9) total allowed. This limit is based on the controller's transformer's ability to power up to nine (9) Stations at one time.



    3.  Once the Stations have been selected, press NEXT to see a list of those Stations.



    If in Stacked mode, the list of Stations can be further modified on this new page. Select a Station and continue to press & hold your finger to the screen to enable drag & drop rearranging. Reorder the list of Stations, as desired. 

    In both Stacked and Overalp mode, select the Station's timer button to assign it a new time.



    4.  Depending on the mode, press START (Stacked), or START ALL (Overlap) to begin operation.

    5.  To stop the Station(s) from operating, press the STOP, or STOP ALL button at any time.




    By Program

    To manually irrigate that Stations that are part of one of the controller's programs, from the PROGRAM tab:


    Note

    To view information about a Program, press the large Overview page button that contains the Program's letter/name. The page that follows will list the Stations that make up that Program. If a Station name is in red, there is an alert associated with that Station. 


    1.  Change the default time to the amount the Stations in the Program need to manually irrigate for by pressing the Default Timer button and selecting a time from the list. The new time will be reflected in the button.


    2.  Select a Program by pressing the Program's corresponding Timer button, which will populate the button with the default time - turning it blue.


    3.  Press the START button, and the first Station within the Program will begin to operate once the Controller receives the command. The Program Overview page button will display the name of the Station that is currently operating. 



    4.  To stop operation, press the STOP button at any time.




    Currently Watering

    When a Station or Stations are operating on a selected Site, a Currently Watering bar will appear at the bottom of the screen. This will indicate how many Stations are operating at the moment. Select the bar and a screen listing the Stations will enable you the ability to stop individual Stations via the list, or even entire Controllers. Simply press the STOP icon adjacent to each.