Baseline Systems BaseStation 3200 - Manual (Page 44)

BaseStation 3200 Advanced Irrigation Controller Manual
5 – CONFIGURING DEVICES
After you have finished connecting all your devices, you need to have the controller find those devices so you can
assign them.
The devices that you can attach to the BaseStation 3200 have serial numbers. The controller identifies an attached
device by its serial number. After you have searched for the attached devices, you can assign each serial number to
a specific purpose in the controller. For example, you map a valve biCoder’s serial number to the number or
address of the zone that the valve waters.
The BaseStation 3200 controller accommodates up to 200 zones, and those zones are identified in the controller
with numbers 1 to 200. These numbers are also referred to as “addresses” because they tell the controller where a
specific device “lives.”
Searching for Devices
Before you can configure any devices such as biCoders or biSensors in the controller, the controller must find those
devices and assign them. You can connect the following types of biCoders and other two-wire devices directly to
the two-wire path:
• Valve biCoders (decoders)
• biSensors (soil moisture sensors)
• Pause biCoders and air temperature sensor
• Flow meters and flow sensors
Searching for biCoders (including Powered biCoders)
1. Turn the dial to the biCoder Menu position.
2. Press the + or – button to select Search in the Find biCoders screen.
3. Press the ENTR button to search for biCoders. The Search may take several
minutes to complete. You will see a status screen like the one shown here
while the search is in progress.”2/New” is displayed signifying 2 new biCoders
were found during this search.
The display shows the number of devices found and the number of ports or
addresses available.
Note: To cancel a search in progress, press the CLR button.
4. Continue to the procedure for assigning the biCoders to zones on page 38.
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