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- Page 1 VSX OPERATING MANUAL VSX Programming and Operations Manual ®...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
VSX OPERATING MANUAL Table of Contents FCPs (Field Controller Programs) ......................5 System Programs ..........................5 VSX Option & Settings Displays ......................6 Programming & Operations........................7 Emergency Functions ........................7 OFF ............................7 Rain Shutdown ......................... 7 Pause ............................7 Controller Setup ............................ - Page 3 OVERLOAD..........................44 COLD START (Erase All) ......................45 VSX Series Specifications ........................47 The VSX controller may be used as a Two Controllers in One: The VSX actually standalone controller for up to 60 stations, or has two different “brains” for storing and 103 stations in a decoder system.
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Page 4: Fcps (Field Controller Programs)
Different superintendents manage their irriga- tion in different ways, and irrigation systems go through many different phases in their annual cycle. The VSX Field Controller is equipped to handle every phase of irrigation, including grow-in, seasonal changes, overseeding, winter- ization, and special applications like fertiliza-... -
Page 5: Vsx Option & Settings Displays
® VSX Option & Settings Displays Options Edit FC Settings Program Options Schedule Options (Press Options (From Options, (Options when a (Options when button from Edit FC Settings) Program or Preset Schedule is time/date display) name is selected) selected) Pause Watering... -
Page 6: Programming & Operations
VSX OPERATING MANUAL Programming & Operations If you do NOT want to enter Rain Shutdown, Note: The VSX keypad display has a built-in press the OFF button again (upper right of timer, and will automatically exit any pro- the keypad) or any other button except gramming mode after 3 minutes if left un- ENTER. -
Page 7: Controller Setup
VSX. Time: On start up, this may be incorrect, but it will show the time of day that VSX thinks it is. Press ENTER with YES capitalized, and the Date: On start up, this may be incorrect, but it... -
Page 8: Field Controller Options
Edit Decoders? Allows setup and/or changes out a run time specified. If you forget to turn to decoder/station assignments. the station off, VSX will turn it off for you in View SYS Events? Allows you to view the 30 minutes. -
Page 9: Set Address
The current am/pm selection will be capital- ized. The other selection will be in lower case. If your VSX controller is a standalone, and you Press the TOGGLE button to switch between are not using Maintenance Radio, the Address AM and PM. -
Page 10: Set Date
At 50%, each Run Time Note: VSX dates are always shown in North will only run half as long, and at 150%, each American format (month/day/year). -
Page 11: Set Schedule Length
NEXT buttons to view more options, or you may press EXIT to leave the Edit Settings mode. Set Schedule Length: The Schedule Length is the number of days in a complete VSX watering Set Schedule Day: The Schedule Day shows period, and allows the controller to track pro- which day of the Schedule the controller thinks grams which do not water every day. -
Page 12: Set Day Change
VSX OPERATING MANUAL You may now press the OPTIONS, BACK, or NEXT buttons to view more options, or you may press EXIT to leave the Edit Settings mode. Set Day Change: The programmable Time of The current selection will be capitalized. Other Day Change option allows you to tell the selections will be in lower case. -
Page 13: Set Response
® To set FCP Inhibit: Press ENTER at the “Set FCP Inhibit?” display. The display will then show: The current selection will be capitalized (default is PARTIAL). The “full” selection will be in lower case. Press the TOGGLE button to The current selection will be capitalized (de- switch between PARTIAL and FULL. -
Page 14: Set Mr Pump
ENTER. The display will show: NEXT buttons to view more options, or you may press EXIT to leave the Edit Settings mode. Set PINS: The VSX controller has 2 levels of optional password protection: The Supervisor level can perform all program- Press ENTER to set the MR Runtime. -
Page 15: Writing A Field Controller Program
PIN, you can clear the password settings. already be a program name in place of the Contact your distributor or Hunter Field Ser- dashes. You can edit any Program at any time. vices for help to clear the password settings. -
Page 16: Assigning A Schedule
VSX OPERATING MANUAL Press the #3 button twice, rapidly, to display the second letter (e). Wait for a second, and the cursor will advance to the next position. Repeat this procedure to type another “e”. The display should now read “TEE”. - Page 17 ® watering schedule. TOGGLE each day from Capital (water) to lower case (no water). Press the PROGRAM SELECT button repeat- (the cursor will be flashing under the edly until the name or number of the Program “Y” corresponding to the current day). you want appears in the display.
- Page 18 VSX OPERATING MANUAL Example: Press the TOGGLE button to change the capital “T” (or any other letter) to a lower-case A controller has a 14-day schedule. You want to “t”. Press TOGGLE again, and the day will set up a Program to irrigate Monday and Thurs- change back to a capital “T”.
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Page 19: Assigning A Start Time
® Press the SCHEDULE button. The display will display, press the START button. The display show the type of Schedule currently set up for will show: the Program. Press the OPTIONS button. The display will show: You can actually perform two different func- tions from here. -
Page 20: Stations, Run Times & Events
In conventional systems, each station is a specific screw terminal on the output board. In decoder systems, each station is a uniquely-numbered decoder output. The VSX controller may have up to 60 stations, plus separate Pump output (conventional), or 103... - Page 21 (where Event #1 = Station #1, You must now press the STATIONS button to Event #2 = Station #2, etc.), but VSX has the advance to the next event, and program another flexibility to run stations in any order.
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Page 22: Blocks
VSX OPERATING MANUAL Blocks: A Block is a group of more than one station (up to 8 per block) which will activate all at once, which are given a single run time, and which may be included in a sequence just like a single station. - Page 23 ® To create a Block, press ENTER. The display Press OPTIONS again. The display will show: will show: Press OPTIONS again. The display will show: Type the station number for the first station in the block, and press ENTER. The display will show: To edit an existing Block, press the OPTIONS button until Edit a Block? is shown, and press Type the next station number and press ENTER,...
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Page 24: Station Options
VSX OPERATING MANUAL The display will show REMOVED and the station 7 to a Block, simply type “7” at a blank spot and press ENTER. You may then advance block will be permanently deleted. to the next blank spot and enter, change, or remove more stations in the Block. -
Page 25: Delete An Event
® To cluster Events, press STATIONS to get to the station where you want to begin a Cluster (often station 1), and press OPTIONS until the display shows Cluster Events? Press ENTER. Delete an Event: To delete the data in an The display will show: existing Event, press ENTER when the displays shows Delete an Event? The display will then... - Page 26 VSX OPERATING MANUAL Type the run time you want all the clustered The display will then revert to the Program stations to use. The display will then show: Name display. Example: Press ENTER to cluster the stations and run times you entered. The display will briefly show “OK!”...
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Page 27: Move An Event
® Move an Event: You can also move the data from one event to another location in a Pro- gram, if you want a specific station to keep its run time, but activate in a different order. In the example above, you might want to move station #6 (Event #2) to activate after station #14 (Event #10). -
Page 28: Insert An Event
VSX OPERATING MANUAL you to the option. If you only have 12 Events, you can only move an Event within the 12 numbers. You cannot have an “empty” Event in the middle of a sequence. Trying to move to Event #13 would cause the ERROR! message. -
Page 29: Program Advanced Options
Important: The effects of % Scale at the Main The previous sections covered the basic con- (controller) and Program levels are cumulative. cepts of writing a Program from the VSX The controller looks first at the Program Scale, controller keypad: Program, Schedule, Start... -
Page 30: Cycles
VSX OPERATING MANUAL You may now press the OPTIONS, BACK, or NEXT buttons to view more options, or you may press EXIT to leave the Program Options mode. Type the number of cycles you want with the Note that, whenever a Program is scaled up or... -
Page 31: Skip Days
® time you want to temporarily halt a Program without having to remember to turn it back on. Skip Days count consecutive days, and do not Press ENTER to save the new delay. The take into account the scheduled days “on” for display will briefly show SAVED! and the the particular Program. -
Page 32: Pump
Skip Days is 999 days, or approximately 3 years. The current selection will be capitalized Pump: Every VSX controller has a separate (default is YES). The “no” selection will be in Pump output (red and white striped wire from lower case. -
Page 33: Manual Starts
® Manual Starts Type the number of the station you want to You can quickly start one or more stations in the start, and press ENTER. The cursor will then controller with the Manual button. Since more move to the minutes section of the run time than one station can be started with this com- section (00:00) of the display. -
Page 34: Semi-Automatic Program Operation
VSX OPERATING MANUAL Semi-automatic Program Operation “SEQ” means the stations will run sequentially, in the order in which they were entered. If you Any automatic Program can be easily started at press the TOGGLE button to capitalize “SIM”, any time from the keypad. This is called “semi- automatic operation”... -
Page 35: Presets
® Presets will show “Alpha entry mode”, and the cursor Presets are like automatic Field Controller Programs, except that they have no Schedule or will be flashing on the first space. Start Time. Instead, Presets are activated from Use the buttons on the keypad to type in a name for the Preset. -
Page 36: Field Controller Advanced Options
VSX OPERATING MANUAL Field Controller Advanced Options The display will then revert to the Preset Name display. Unlike Program Options, which only apply to the selected Program, the Field Controller options apply to the entire Field Controller, or provide access to special functions. Several of them have been covered in detail in other sections. -
Page 37: Remove Preset
® The display defaults to NO, because this is your Edit Decoders: This option only appears in VSX Field Decoder Controllers. Decoder last chance to keep this Program. Make sure the controllers are always configured for 103 correct Program (the one you want to remove) stations, plus a Pump output. -
Page 38: View Sys Events
If you press ENTER, the changes will be saved. the field, and should be used only after consult- You may also TOGGLE to “NO” and press ing with Hunter Field Services. ENTER if you want to discard the changes. To Edit a Decoder: Press Options repeatedly Note: Decoder edits are automatically stored in until the displays shows “Edit Decoders?”,... -
Page 39: Remove Sys Events
® Radio Xmit Test (Radio controllers only): The Radio Transmit (Xmit) Test option only appears in VSX controllers equipped with radio commu- nications modules, and is used to test the radio You may then press NEXT (or BACK) to step and communications board. -
Page 40: Trnr Radio
You may also hold down the push-to-talk manual irrigation functions that can be started switch and press the command buttons one at a from the VSX keypad can also be started from time. Remember to release the switch immedi- Maintenance Radio. The command codes... -
Page 41: Sending A Maintenance Radio Command
® Generally, the last character determines ately upon finishing the command, so that you can hear the acknowledgement tone back from whether you are turning something on or off: the controller. # = ON, and * = OFF. The “*” is also used to begin new commands. -
Page 42: Mr Command Table
VSX OPERATING MANUAL Maintenance Radio Functions and Commands: Function Command* Result Start a Station *aaa#nnn#[tttt]# Starts station (#nnn) for a specified time (tttt) in hours:minutes format, up to 18 hours, or the global MR Time (set in Edit FC Settings) if no time is entered. -
Page 43: Display Messages (Status, Errors And Other Conditions)
*The letters in the commands table correspond If there is too much information to display in a to the Legend Table below: single screen, VSX will flash a series of screens, each with more information about Legend for MR Command station activity. -
Page 44: Cold Start (Erase All)
(###) in the message. this message. Pressing the ‘CLEAR’ key will clear this Max Sta Running: The VSX controller can message. If the overload occurs while you are operate a maximum of 20 stations at a time. present at the controller, you can press CLEAR... - Page 45 ® Press ENTER. The display will then show: Comm is muted: This indicates that the controller will not initiate any communication to a central controller. This message is only cleared by an internal five-minute timer or by a command from a central computer. This mode is started or stopped by the central computer Press ENTER with YES capitalized, and the and cannot be changed or cleared at the con-...
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Page 46: Vsx Series Specifications
VSX OPERATING MANUAL VSX Series Specifications Dimensions: Signal Output: Steel Pedestal: 36in/92cm tall x 13.5in/35cm Radio, 2 Watts UHF (450 – 470 MHz) wide x 10in/26cm deep Hardwire, 4 – 20 milliamp loop Plastic Pedestal: 35in/89cm tall x 17.5in/45cm GCBL: Hardwire communications wide x 10.5in/27cm deep... - Page 47 Hunter Industries Incorporated • The Irrigation Innovators 1940 Diamond Street • San Marcos, California 92069 • TEL: (1) 760-744-5240 • FAX: (1) 760-744-7461 © 2001 Hunter Industries Incorporated www.HunterIndustries.com P/N 562191 70-089 5/01...