Watering times do not match the programed time

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Texmaster

June 05, 2018 04:17

Hi Folks,

 

I have two of the HD12s and for the most part they are great but occasionally when I check the history it doesn't water either at all or every station for less than a minute per station when I check the history.   I dont have any restrictions on at all but can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

 

For example:

Station 1 was set for 7:00 but only watered :42

Station 2 set for 9:00 but only watered :54

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  RainMachine Nicholas June 05, 2018 10:23

  This should be normal operation unless you set fixed duration on your programs (weather not taken into account). With weather the plant evapo-transpiration and rain are taken into account. Without this there won't be any savings.

  If you *don't* wish to have under a minute irrigation you can set this per each zone under Minimum Watering Time. This will make these small irrigation be postponed until next scheduled irrigation.

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  Texmaster June 05, 2018 15:42

  See that's what threw me is we are in 3 digit temps so I didn't expect to see any deviation from the programmed time and where can you set minimum watering time because its not under the settings or restrictions area in the app.

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  RainMachine Nicholas June 05, 2018 16:48

  The minimum watering time is set from Zone properties. On Web UI just click the zone that you want to modify and you'll see Minimum Watering Time next to Field Capacity.

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