Scheduled Watering - Toro Network VP 4.00 Satellite User Manual

Scheduled Watering

The Network VP satellite features 64 fully-independent resident programs. With three types of programs to
select from, you can further custom fit your irrigation programs to any landscape.
• Basic Irrigation Program will activate a station or group of stations with one start time on a daily basis.
Each station will water for the duration specified in hours, minutes and seconds. Percent adjust and maximum
number of simultaneous activate stations per program can be specified in this program.
• Advanced Irrigation Program will activate a station or group of stations with up to 24 start times.
The 2-week calendar scheduling can be varied from All (daily), Alternate, Weekdays only, Weekends only, None
(Off) or specific days dictated by you. Percent adjust and the number of simultaneous active stations can be
specified in this program.
• Grow-In Irrigation Program will activate a station or group of stations for the length of their runtime.
The program will repeat the cycle after the specified delay time expires and will repeat continuously between the
set Start and End times. Percent adjust and the simultaneous activate stations can be specified in this program.
• GMM (Group Multi-Manual) will activate up to 64 Sequences with 6 stations per sequence. Each
station can only be assigned to one sequence. GMM have a 5-day schedule with up to 24 start times.
Note: A program must be configured with the proper settings in order to run either automatically or manually.
• Station Based Flow Management - The Network VP supports station based flow management
as downloaded by SitePro. When station based flow management is utilized, the downloaded station activity
list can be viewed between GMM and P01 within the Scheduled Watering menu. The station activity list cannot be
edited at the satellite. Upon receipt, the satellite automatically creates traditional programs (P01 to P64) from
the information contained in the station activity list. Traditional programs created from the station activity list are
intended for manual irrigation and therefore do not include a start time. Placing a start time on any traditional
program will disable the station activity list and prevent it from executing.
The configuration parameters are as follows:
P01 – Select the program number being created or modified. Network VP can have up to 64 programs plus a GMM.
100% – Percent adjustment parameter. Adjust the percentage according to the proper weather or season changes.
You can adjust the program's watering from 10% – 250%. (Available for Basic, Grow-In and Advanced.)
Hold – Activate HOLD to suspend program activity. Select from NONE, TODAY, 02–30 Days and PERMANENT.
(Available for Basic, Grow-In and Advanced)
Type – Select the type of program being created from Basic, Grow-In and Advanced.
Start time: – Enter the time to start the program cycle. Advanced programs can have up to 24 Starts. (Available
for Basic, Grow-In and Advanced.)
End: – Enter the time the program will terminate watering. (Available only for Grow-In programs.)
Delay: – Enter the delay time between each program cycles. (Available only for Grow-In programs.)
Days: – Select the program's active days schedule ranging from Water Every 01 Days through 30 Days or selectively
choose any Days-of-the-Week to irrigate. (Available only for Advanced programs.)
set>: – When selecting Days-of-the-Week to irrigate, use set to activate or deactivate any days from the two-week
schedule. (Available only for Advanced programs.)
Today's Day: – Select Today's designation when choosing the Water Every XX option. Example: When setting
your program to water every 4th day and you want the cycle to start tomorrow, set 03 for Today. The TODAY number is
increased at every Day Change until the Water Every number is met. (Available only for Advanced programs.)
Sta#: – Enter the stations and their runtimes that the program will activate.
Syringe: – Regardless of the programmed runtimes, if the syringe duration is set at a value from 01 through 99
minutes, all stations in that program will activate for that duration at start time. Disable Syringe by assigning 00 min for
the duration. (Available only for Advanced programs.)
Repeats: – Program repeats can be set from 0–3 times. The program's total runtime will be multiplied by the
number of repeats. Program repeat will activate immediately after the program soak duration is satisfied. (Available
only for Advanced programs.)
Soak: – Soak is the delay time that the controller will wait before executing a station cycle or a program repeat.
Soak is valuable to give irrigation time to penetrate the soil before continuing with the cycle. Without soak time, the
soil will reach saturation resulting in water run off. Soak time can range from 00:00 (no delay) to 11:59 (Hours:Minutes).
(Available only for Advanced programs.)
Simult: – Enter the maximum allowable stations that can simultaneously operate. This parameter can not be greater
than the Max Sim Sta (Maximum Simultaneous Stations) in the Satellite Settings. (Available for Basic, Grow-In and
Advanced.)
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