Flex Schedule setup for one day a week watering

[Lawnmowerman]

@hgugger

@Lawnmowerman, I had a similar starting situation on clay with a steep slope, where my predicted watering time all of a sudden was 11 hours, and I felt that I am for sure heading in the wrong direction. I saw that you have “smart cycle” set to on. Therefore, like in my case you might have a lot of idle time built in, since smart cycle will only put as much water on a zone as it calculates to not produce run off. In other words, it might water Zone XX for 3 minutes, service the other zones in the schedule, and then wait the remainder of the 30 minutes before watering Zone XX again (check Watering History window, where you have the details of each part of the watering run. You should see entries like “cycled for YY minutes”, i.e. no water flows).Another way to check this is to pull up the water usage graphs, where it gives you the gallons or the minutes actually watered (excluding the wait times), which should be much shorter than the completed smart cycle run.

Aah, the total time makes more sense if it takes into account idle time between watering. Thanks!