Sprinkler system
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tmbrown97
Senior Member
An M1 with an XOVR in that otherwise Too-small 14" enclosure mounted in the garage where a sprinkler timer would normally go works pretty well. Last house had 10 zones so I did an XOVR and an M1RB for 16 relays - used a couple to control the door plus 10 for the sprinklers and some other stuff. Worked really well.
Here the kids play in some of the back yard sprinklers so its great to be able to turn them on from my phone - next summer I'll probably add a button they can pretty for 2 minutes of play time.
Here the kids play in some of the back yard sprinklers so its great to be able to turn them on from my phone - next summer I'll probably add a button they can pretty for 2 minutes of play time.
You might also want to consider a controller such as IrrigationCaddy, OpenSprinkler, or RainMachine. I've had the OpenSprinkler in mind to purchase in the spring and several CQCers bought the IrrigationCaddy. I ran across the RainMachine on Amazon and I'm not sure what to think of it...the reviews might be faked because I can find no other real mention of it outside of Amazon.
pete_c
Guru
Here I fitted two Rain8nets and one pogoplug (seagate dockstar) in the old rainbird box.
The sprinkler application utilizes the local weather sensors and internet weather and ET.
The application is located here:
http://mcssprinklers.com/
It also uses a water meter such that you can set your sprinklers to gallons instead of time.
I utilize an old wireless X-10 palm pad to manually control the on/off of the valves outside to check operations of the sprinkler heads.
Just recently tested the OS / application boot on a small 16Gb SSD. The running OS hardware now is a primary drive (CF) and utilized the USB memory stick as a nightly backup drive.
The sprinkler application utilizes the local weather sensors and internet weather and ET.
The application is located here:
http://mcssprinklers.com/
It also uses a water meter such that you can set your sprinklers to gallons instead of time.
I utilize an old wireless X-10 palm pad to manually control the on/off of the valves outside to check operations of the sprinkler heads.
Just recently tested the OS / application boot on a small 16Gb SSD. The running OS hardware now is a primary drive (CF) and utilized the USB memory stick as a nightly backup drive.
pete_c
Guru
Yup; lost two of them after about 6 years or so due to a lightning strike.
The RS-232 to cat5 cable went to a Digi Edgeport 8 which didn't fail.
I left the old rainbird rain sensor in place. Today its on/off connection is wireless via an X10 DS11A.
The newer designed sprinkler controllers (mostly all of them) have more built in intelligence, manual controls and better surge protection.
In Florida I have left the Rainbird ESP controller in place (same one I had in the midwest). There I replace the controller fuse about once a year due to whatever surges happen. Grounding is different there. The outdoor sprinkler relays / sprinkler heads have failed there mostly due to sand (guesstimate).
The RS-232 to cat5 cable went to a Digi Edgeport 8 which didn't fail.
I left the old rainbird rain sensor in place. Today its on/off connection is wireless via an X10 DS11A.
The newer designed sprinkler controllers (mostly all of them) have more built in intelligence, manual controls and better surge protection.
In Florida I have left the Rainbird ESP controller in place (same one I had in the midwest). There I replace the controller fuse about once a year due to whatever surges happen. Grounding is different there. The outdoor sprinkler relays / sprinkler heads have failed there mostly due to sand (guesstimate).
Work2Play said:
My M1 panel is located in the basement and the installer is suggesting to install the sprinkler timer in the shed located at the end of my yard. Is it the sprinkler timer that would need to be connected to the M1 panel? I hear the ISY as an option you can purchase that read the weather and based on that feature you can have the system water the lawn or not.
Anybody can share a picture showing how the sprinkler is connected to the M1?
There would be no sprinkler timer or to put it another way, the XOVR and/or M1RB replace the sprinkler timer. I am not that familiar with Elk but it looks like there is a 4 wire data bus that would be run from the M1 to the XOVR/M1RB to connect them. The XOVR/M1RB could go where the sprinkler timer would go, remote from the M1, or it could be in the same location.
BraveSirRobbin
Moderator
One way using multiple relays. You can also just use a relay expander as well...Guy669 said:
