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Advanced Control Technologies
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ADVANCED CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES
Rain Watch™
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Rain Can
Patented Rain Bird® Rain Watch™ technology maximizes
water efficiency, while minimizing system wear and tear,
through intelligent, real-time decision-making based
accurate rainfall measurement.
FEATURES AND BENEFITS
• The industry’s first active rainfall monitoring and
response system.
• The only system designed to automatically react to rainfall
and adjust sprinkler application rates to take full advantage
of natural rain, thereby eliminating over-watering.
• Saves water and electricity, while keeping the course drier
and more playable, by pausing, adjusting or canceling
irrigation in the event of rainfall.
• Results in reduced wear and tear on irrigation
system components.
• An integral part of Rain Bird® Central Control Software
versions 4.0 and higher.
HOW RAIN WATCH MANAGES RAINFALL
• Stationed throughout the course, up to four (4)
high-resolution Rain Watch rain cans collect
environmental data.
• A rotor can be set to react to any of the rain cans.
• The central control system continuously polls
each rain can.
Rainfall data received by the system is used
to make intelligent decisions based on
user-defined responses:
System Response: For course-wide reactions
Program Response: For program-specific responses
No-Action Response: For monitoring only
Intelligent responses include:
• Pause
• Resume
• Adjust runtimes and resume
• Cancel
AN EXAMPLE OF RAIN WATCH IN ACTION
• Your daily irrigation schedule calls for 0.20
inches (0.51 cm) of precipitation.
• A storm begins and once accumulated rainfall
reaches your desired 0.04-inch (0.10 cm) threshold,
Rain Watch suspends irrigation.
• The storm passes after putting down 0.11 inches
(0.28 cm) of rain.
• Rain Bird software automatically adjusts remaining
runtimes for active stations, as well as those stations
yet to run.
• Natural precipitation is seamlessly integrated into
scheduled irrigation, resulting in a water savings
of 0.11 inches (0.28 cm).
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Field Installation
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Rain Watch™