Baseline Systems BaseStation 3200 User Manual
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I n t r o d u c t i o n
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Baseline 3200
If you do get brown spots in your landscape, fixing distribution uniformity
issues will give better long term results than increasing run times or
moisture settings.
Every irrigation controller must be programmed to water to the “driest spot” in each zone. If the
difference between water applied at the driest spot is too great (especially if the wettest spot
has more than 3 times the water applied in the same period as to the dries spot) then you should
take steps to adjust your heads, their spacing, and their coverage to gain better uniformity.
You can quickly and easily measure the distribution uniformity of your landscape by placing catch
cups in any particular zone and then running that zone for a specific period of time. Auditing
zones in this manner will also give you very exact information about how much water is applied
per hour in that zone, which makes setting default run-times easy. Baseline highly recommends
that you audit zones in order to determine uniformity and actual application rates.