Watering/Weather Correction take into account Different programs watering same zone?

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Kenny T

April 24, 2017 15:18

Was curious as to if the system takes into account another program or two watering the same zone and them adjusts the "main" program (the one that has weather correction turned on)?

I would assume they don't talk to each other since another zone watering is not technically rain.

I have my main program set up but planted new grass and now have a second program which waters 20 mins everyday.  

This is great but wasting some water since the main program still runs for its allotted amount of time and doesn't know there was an extra 20 mins of water added to the grass.

Would like to see that amount of water added to the water available in the formula so the "main" program will adjust to this as well.

Quickest solution would be to reduce the main waters program atm, but still would be nice if the system could do this.

Thanks!

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  RainMachine Nicholas April 24, 2017 18:19

  Hi Kenny,

  Programs are completely independent on how they manage their water in soil per zone, there isn't a main program. Also the programs don't actually add "available water", which is only from rain, programs irrigate to maintain plant proper soil moisture. If you look at the zones field capacity graphs programs try to maintain moisture at "0" level (below it's a deficit for plants) and available water is what zones get extra from rains.

  If the programs would depend on each other only 1 program will run (regardless of weather) since the other program will always fill the right amount of moisture.

  The newly seeded grass is a special case, you don't actually irrigate only to maintain plant needed water but also to promote germination/initial root growth.

  We are discussing about adding a special flag for programs for newly seeded zones to make this process easier.

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  Kenny T April 24, 2017 18:24

  Thanks for the quick response! I figured they were independent of each other specially after looking at the log.  I didn't really think about that part, yes the flag would be helpful. Keep up the good work!

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