Baseline Systems BaseStation 3200 - Manual (Page 65)

BaseStation 3200 Advanced Irrigation Controller Manual
7 – FLOW MANAGEMENT & MONITORING
The BaseStation 3200 provides an extensive set of flow monitoring and management capabilities to help
understand how water is being used and to reduce the effects of pipeline breaks and sprinkler malfunctions. It can
monitor actual water flow rates and compare them against the expected or
design flow rates and provide alerts and perform actions when limits or
boundaries are exceeded. The system can reduce the overall completion
time of a watering cycle by running the number of zones that best use the
available water at each minute of the watering cycle.
To access the main menu for flow management, turn the dial to the Flow
Menu position.
Using a flow device to monitor water flow rates and water used is the best
way to manage this precious resource, but even without a flow device, the
BaseStation 3200 has many capabilities that can improve the efficiency of your system.
Configuring a Flow Device
1. Search for the flow device.
a. Turn the dial to the Flow Menu position.
b. Press the NEXT or PREV button to select Flow Device Setup.
c. Press the ENTR button. The Flow Device Setup screen displays.
d. Press the + or – button until Search displays
in the Configure Flow Device field.
e. Press the ENTR button to search for flow
biCoders. The system indicates how many
flow devices it finds.
2. Press the + or – button to move through the list
of flow devices, and stop when the serial
number of the flow device that you want to set
up displays in the field.
Note: The system assigns a number from 1 to 4
to each flow device in the order that they are
found. This number is used when programming the flow device or when referring to the flow device from
other menus.
3. Press the NEXT button to move to the Enable field, and then press the + or – button to select either Yes or No.
Note: If the flow biCoder is disabled, it will not be used in high flow checking, but it will continue to
accumulate data about the amount of water used.
4. Press the NEXT button to move to the Use Internal NOMV field. If the flow device that you are setting up has
a normally open master valve (NOMV), you can enable it by pressing the +/– buttons. If the flow device does
not have an NOMV, the field displays “na” to indicate that the setting does not apply.
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