Hi folks - so I have a lawn that’s roughly 600sft. Currently it has 3 sprinkler zones, see pic. I roughly drew a circle around what each sprinkler covers, and the 3 different colors are the 3 different zones. The zones were set up by the previous owner. They are all rainbird rotary nozzle heads, 1800 PRS-30.
I have been doing manually scheduled runs but I want to try out the flex schedule to improve that dry grass patch I have and also just take the guess work out of this.
I have figured out my soil type (clay loam, I am in northern CA bay area) and have catch cups ready to go for a test, but first I want to come up with a plan.
For my catch cup test:
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Should I run each zone independently, measure the catch cups, and then try to put in nozzle in/hr such that I am not duplicating one zone with another? Meaning if zone 1 gets me 1in/hr and zone 2 gets me 2in/hr, and they overlap perfectly (so 1.5in/hr avg), then I’d put in maybe .7 for zone 1 and .8 for zone 2?
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Same question for efficiency - how would I calculate / tweak that given the overlap in zones?
Thanks in advance