Splitting Irrigation Stations Cancel The title field is required!

1. Rocky Tharp

   

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   6/20/2017 4:06 PM

   We have several instances on our fairways where 3 heads are tied together somewhere in the field and run as one station at the controller. In many cases there are two heads on the edge of the fairway that we'd like to make part circle heads but the third head is out in the middle of the fairway and needs to remain a full circle head. The primary motivation is to save water. We do have room in the controller to add additional stations so the plan is to start tracing wires to figure out where exactly in the field they are spliced together and then run new station wires back to the controller from that point.
   Short of doing that, any other creative ideas that might work? I remember there being a head that would rotate faster during part of it's arc, but unless it shut off altogether, it would still run the same amount of time as the full circle out in the middle of the fairway and wouldn't save any water. This is a Toro wireless system running on Site Pro (soon to be Lynx) with OSMAC G3 controllers.
   
   Rocky Tharp
   West Seattle Golf Course
   Seattle, Wa

   
   
   
   
2. James Smith

   

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   6/21/2017 7:06 AM

   Most wiring connections are made at the last sprinkler head in line before the one your looking at. if they were all in a row the wire would be at the middle head. almost all wiring systems are placed in the irrigation trench when the line is installed. you may find it better to try to take more of a direct route to your irrigation box. this would limit the damage of running down the middle of the fairway. I think it depends on how many wires you need on each fairway. just be careful if you try to lay it on top of your existing line. always remember that most wire pullers do not go very deep so be careful if you use one and aerify.

   
   
   
   
3. Steve Datwyler

   

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   7/12/2017 9:07 PM

   Have you considered using an Add-A-Zone rather than running wires back to the controller? We have used these to add stations where we did not want to run a wire back to the controller. We have some that have been in use for 7 years+ without any problems. If your heads use a Spike Guard solenoid you will need to replace them with a standard solenoid. Add-A-Zones are about $100 each.