Baseline Systems BaseStation 3200 - Manual (Page 45)

C h a p t e r 3 – A d v a n c e d P r o g r a m m i n g
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Baseline 3200
3
Advanced Programming
Chapter Contents
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Flow Management & Monitoring .......................................................................................43
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Multiple Flow Devices and Mainlines .................................................................................48
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Pause biCoders ...................................................................................................................49
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 pipe line breaks and
sprinkler malfunction. It can monitor actual water flow rates and compare them against the
expected or design flow rates and provide alerts and action 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.
The main menu system for flow management is
shows by turning the dial to the Flow Menu
position. This screen is shown to the right.
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, many capabilities are available that can
improve the efficiency of your system. These will
be covered in the sections below.
Flow Devices
Flow Device Setup
Pressing ENTR from the main Flow Menu dial position, with the Flow Device Setup menu item
highlighted, will show the following screen (shown to the right). After the flow devices have
been connected to the two-wire, a Search
operation must be done so the controller can
do an inventory of devices on the two-wire and
list them for programming. This Search can be
done from any of the dial positions that have
this function.
As can be seen in the screen to the right, one
flow device has been found from a Search
operation. Pressing the + or – key will scroll
through the list of flow devices. Each flow
device is given a number, one to four, in the
order that they are found. This number is used