I believe the logic used for your Soil-Clik sensor is incorrect. I recently had a Hunter system installed, including a Soil-Clik and a Solar-Sync. We had a fair amount of rain in the past few days and the soil needed very little sprinkling to reach it's Soil-Clik cutoff. The first five zones received thier full amount of water, but the sixth (last) zone received only 1-2 minutes of water before the Soil-Clik shut it off. So I've overwatered - wasteful in both water and money - all of the zones except the last. I believe the Soil-Clik should be programmed to be placed in the first zone and the programming should recognize the percentage of the normal run time it takes to reach the Soil-Clik cutoff. The system should then water all of the other zones for the same percentage of scheduled time. Your design only get it right for one zone, my suggestion gets it right for all zones. Please comment.
My comment was not about the Solar Sync - I have no problem with how it's designed to work. I also understand that, as currently designed, if the Soil-Clik were in the first zone, it will stop watering in all other zones. I'm suggesting that the ProC controller be redesigned to recognize how long it takes to reach the proper moisture in the Sil-Clik zone, then water the other zones accordingly. In that case, the Soil-Clik would belong in the first zone.
@@waymegelli Hi Wayne, I totally agree with you, it requires rework by Hunter, logic should be following : 1. zone with sensor should go first, 2. same percentage of time of watering that was applied on first zone then should apply on rest of the zones, that's it. But it is hard to achieve with this HW I guess...
Totally agree, and I just read someone reviews in other irrigation website and he came up with this solution: All the lawn valves share a single common wire so the sensor is wired to break the common when saturated and the irrigation system can continue the set program without the lawn valves being opened
I believe the logic used for your Soil-Clik sensor is incorrect. I recently had a Hunter system installed, including a Soil-Clik and a Solar-Sync. We had a fair amount of rain in the past few days and the soil needed very little sprinkling to reach it's Soil-Clik cutoff. The first five zones received thier full amount of water, but the sixth (last) zone received only 1-2 minutes of water before the Soil-Clik shut it off. So I've overwatered - wasteful in both water and money - all of the zones except the last. I believe the Soil-Clik should be programmed to be placed in the first zone and the programming should recognize the percentage of the normal run time it takes to reach the Soil-Clik cutoff. The system should then water all of the other zones for the same percentage of scheduled time. Your design only get it right for one zone, my suggestion gets it right for all zones. Please comment.
My comment was not about the Solar Sync - I have no problem with how it's designed to work. I also understand that, as currently designed, if the Soil-Clik were in the first zone, it will stop watering in all other zones. I'm suggesting that the ProC controller be redesigned to recognize how long it takes to reach the proper moisture in the Sil-Clik zone, then water the other zones accordingly. In that case, the Soil-Clik would belong in the first zone.
@@waymegelli Hi Wayne, I totally agree with you, it requires rework by Hunter, logic should be following : 1. zone with sensor should go first, 2. same percentage of time of watering that was applied on first zone then should apply on rest of the zones, that's it. But it is hard to achieve with this HW I guess...
Totally agree, and I just read someone reviews in other irrigation website and he came up with this solution: All the lawn valves share a single common wire so the sensor is wired to break the common when saturated and the irrigation system can continue the set program without the lawn valves being opened