I have four lawn valves. Here in the desert, we water 4 min per valve, one hour apart, 4 times a day in spring and fall, 4 days per week. Can it do?
512127
here is the operators manual http://www.rainbird.com/documents/diy/man_SST.pdf
512128
Yes you can. You can select the amount of time, individual or multiple zones, how many times per day, and the days of the week each zone is watered.
512129
It will water 4 times a day. The timer works on 15 minute increments only. So you could water for 4 minutes at 6am, then 4 minutes at 6:15am, 4 minutes at 6:30am and 4 at 6:45am. It won't work for 6:00, 6:04, 6:08, then 6:12.
538497
Without a doubt. You can even water up to 3 different times per day/ 7 different days per week. I have used these for years and love them!
1141547
I Don't think so, as you can only set an interval between each watering but they are the same. I know I set mine for Tue, Thu, Sat but then must remember to turn off so it doesn't run on Mondays. With watering restrictions it is probably best to find one more programmable. I will have to do this also.
600042
The valve is battery operated, so I see no reason why it should not work with your lower pressure. You may have to set it for a longer water duration time to get the amount of water you want.
1648305
Yes to both of your questions! It also has a feature called cycle and soak, which will divide your total run time up into smaller cycles, giving the soil time to absorb. A great feature for getting the most watering out of your water restriction days. Since you are only running two or three days a week, you'll just set your run times higher then you would if you were running every day. That way when the software adjusts down for weather, it's not decreasing your watering too much. We love ours so much!
1440224
I currently run 4 lines on mine, however they are not run simultaneously. 2 are daily soaker hoses for my gardens. A 3rd is for when I need to manually water (hanging plants, etc) and the 4th is for when I am away for extended times. I set it up to water those 'hanging plants' by stacking the planters and putting a sprinkler on the top one. Simply you answer is yes. It runs the 2 soakers without any problem and when I have 3 simultaneously, it seems to work just fine.
2054073
That depends on your water pressure but honestly I doubt that you will be able to have four heads working simultaneously off one hose. Also keep in mind that you will not get the specified throw off the sprinkler heads if you try running four at one time, so even if you had the pressure to do so, you would only be watering a small areaō
1096368
No reason why it won't. The controller is only providing 28V current to operate the valves. If you use 28V valves it will work. Of course you could use less robust valves than used for lawn sprinklers.However, I thought drip systems stayed on all the time and therefore do not need valves and a controller.
1189125
It will help extend time between waterings but not by much. My experience is that this product can extend the time between waterings 1 or 2 days for thirsty plants. Probably not the extra time you are looking for unless you take short vacations.
1181029
Good quetion! The only way I can think to do that takes away some of the advantage of an automated system. That would be to program days and watering times for the valves as desired, leave the system off and then turn on when needed and use the "water all zones one time (or only one zone) button", turning system off again when done. I know that's not an ideal scenario, but I think it's all the system will allow since it's based on weekly rather than monthly programing intervals.
1041162
I guess you could, BUT...zones are purposely partitioned to provide optimum water supply thru each sprinkler. If you start water thru all the Sprinklers, each may not get enough force.
757085
If your're saying that you are pumping water from a lake to use for irrigation, I don't really know. I water the outdoor plants around my house. I installed two water valves off my main water line and connected SST-600 to control my drip-irrigation system. For each of the six watering options available on the SST it requires a valve; I just use two. The timer controls the opening and closing of water valves and the length of time the valves are open. The SST does a great job and what is most important to me, it is very easy to operate.
328942
No, as is generally true with residential timers such as this SST900i, it can only power one valve at a time. Some commercial grade timers such as Rainbird's ESP-SMTe can power 2 valves simultaneously. But, even if the timer could power 2 valves at a time, your water pressure, your piping, or your main valve size might not be able to handle so much flow.
1332911
Yes, you can manually water each zone individually or cycle through all zones consecutively. I believe the default duration is 10 minutes per zone.
479540
Right now the temperature where I live is 90 degrees and this tends to be desert-type country. I can water for about a week at the most in these conditions. Earlier in the season I could get almost 2 weeks.
1949654
so far it is working great. We live in the desert and the sun is brutil. My wife loves it she waters all the plants in the back yard 15 to 20 min then the same in the front 3 or4 times a week. When she is done it goes in a small covered can so the sun don.t get to it.
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According to the instructions, the limit per watering session is 240 minutes. You could water for 150 minutes, four times per day, for a total of ten hours, but I expect that is not what you had in mind.