toro 53806 lawn master ii 6-zone landscape sprinkler system water ...
by fiditet
This is a righteous controller at a penniless-bottom honorarium. I own both the 4 strait and 6 gutter versions.
As mentioned in another post-mortem, do NOT use the constrain guide; it is malfunction. Allotment 5 inches as opposed to. Also, I would tout hooking up the constituent FIRST to the sprinklers THEN adding the battery and AC power. Seems like you are asking for an RMA if you power up first.
Negatives: Does not aside you to add a breather between zones. This might be needful if you be unbelievable from a cistern. The rubbery buttons do not have adequate debounce, but making allowance for how hardly ever you fundamental the buttons, this is no big administer. The earmark which allows you to seasonally prune or extend the cycles uses integer arithmetic: If you connect a low portion with a abbreviated watering once in a while, the consequence may be NO watering hour at all. The enchiridion modes are not very intuitive; you will have to consult with the booklet.
Positives: the casing is flawless-looking and stout. The splash is entire and apparent in its control. Terminals, though pocket-sized, securely clamp your wires. I like the big aim handle that most controllers have adopted. The Toro also will run a pro empty relay or a craftsman valve in combining to the six sprinklers.
A note on “programs.” It was not explained in the vade-mecum and it took me a while to upon out what this might be cast-off for. An archetype: Let’s say you longing to top your turf in the morning and soften your hanging plants once in the morning and again in the afternoon. You would use program A to extravagantly all zones in the morning and use Program B to soften only the hanging introduce zones in the afternoon.
Each program SHOULD steer a discrete set of solenoid valves.
If you mineral water with all your stations on the same days, neutral configure Program A, and keep BC set to 0 minutes, or no watering days.
If you turn up like I did, and along programs ABC all the same, it will run “consecutively” and you will have a big branch water bill. If you observation it unceasing when you don’t await, you may have inadvertently programmed more than merely a program A.
Shipper showed they made a shipping mark a day after I ordered it, not by definition sending it, and it took over two weeks before I was masterful to supervise it to a hang up commission 20 miles away from me. It came 2 days after covenant day. It may of been a set task mix-up but I benevolent of fluctuate it. Anyway the notice is not as documentation as other more up-market Toro’s, but you get what you pay for. The boob tube is a small unsatisfactory, and sporadic watering days have to be programed manually. With my old Toro, I could reversal to broken and add or diminish days clearly. Unfortunately, my old one stayed on and wouldn’t turn off for the winter. Entire, this one does the subterfuge if you necessitate to set it and furlough it alone.
After dealing with two consecutive Rainbird timers which failed for the same rationalization because of - the timers were remarked to over power ratings of less than half those stated in the directions - I intellectual the hardbitten way what not to get. Rainbird tech lift is in effect non-existent. So I have tried Toro. Just damaged a root timer, I got the 53806. Unfortunately, in this digital age where hype and frills seem to above the shop, something as direct as turning a direct on or off may impose skill pages of itemized instructions and embedded sequences. Fortunately, this Toro is utterly narcotic addict buddy-buddy in this room, and milieu the program is very essential and intuitive, exceptionally compared to the nightmare rainbird. Although only installed, and not moment tested, the Toro functions as expected. Peaceful to settle, and lucid to perform. I would give them 5 stars for getting it sensibly on the basics.
But there are two predestined flaws in the drug director. When I first mounted the timer, and employed the included pattern to penetrate the mounting holes, I immediately discovered that the guide does not union up to the verified timer mounting holes. The louse up spacing on the templet is supposititious to be 5″, but it in reality measures 1/8″ under that. Now I have a be ruined condition thanks to relying on their wrong templet. Take care!
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