Baseline Systems BaseStation 3200 V12 - Manual (Page 29)

BaseStation 3200 Advanced Irrigation Controller Manual
Wire Lengths
Total wire length supported depends on the gauge of the wire used.
Straight Run
Looped Run
Wire Layout
Straight line, star, looped, and combination configurations are supported.
The straight line and the star topology are the recommended layouts. To simplify the illustrations,
only the last device is shown for most configurations. You can assume that other devices, both
sensors and biCoders, are connected along the length of the two-wire path. On a star
configuration, the topology has multiple last devices. Each device must separately meet the
distance requirement.
While the loop topology might provide a more robust configuration, it is harder to trace the wiring
errors that might occur. For this reason, Baseline recommends the other topologies over the loop.
Straight Line Looped
Combination Star
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