Well pump on some zones, city water on others?

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jack

July 06, 2018 14:15

Of my 11 zones, I have 8 that are on a well pump, and the other 3 that are not. How can I tell my system to NOT turn on the pump for those zones that are city water only? 

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  RainMachine Support July 06, 2018 14:23

  Hi, Jack
  Thank you for your question.
  As for now, there is no way to not turn the pump when it is already set to do that. It is a system wide setting to use or not to use Master Valve (Pump) as Zone 1. Once set, it will start for each zone.

  Thank you,
  RainMachine Support

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  jack July 06, 2018 14:28

  Seems like a simple program change w a check box. Is it something you will look at doing in the near future?

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  RainMachine Support July 06, 2018 14:31

  Hi, Jack
  We will change the topic of your post to “Ideas and suggestions” and we will gather more feedback on it.

  Thank you,
  RainMachine Support

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  Troggy July 25, 2018 06:53

  Hi Support,

  I have same request to exclude master zone for some individual zones. 

  Use case is a little different: Want to use one zone for refiill water tank. In this case I do not want to have pump running while other zones are deactivated.

   

  Would be great to have this feature included in further release

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  RainMachine Support Agent July 25, 2018 16:57

  If you feel this is a great idea or something that you yourself could utilize, it would be a good idea to vote up on his idea. 

  Its to the right of the original post. 

  Thank You,
  RainMachine Support

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  jack July 25, 2018 17:40

  Maybe that should be a bullet point at the top of this forum.

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  Steven August 01, 2018 13:39

  I would like to see this feature to be able to turn off the pump relay for certain zones. I have one zone with some low pressure drip irrigation and having the master pump running is a waste of electricity and just causes unnecessary pressure in the line. Like jack says a simple check box to disable the master valve (pump) would be a good idea.

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  art May 04, 2020 20:22

  I have the same issue/concern.  Please remove the Master Valve from the global settings and allow it to be set inside the program settings for each zone.

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