Specifications

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CENTRAL CONTROL SYSTEMS
CENTRAL CONTROL COMPARISON CHART
FEATURES
CIRRUS™ NIMBUS™ II STRATUS™ II STRATUS LT™
Real-time decision making
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Radio communication option
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Works with all Rain Bird satellites
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Works with decoders
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Works with Rain Bird Integrated Control™ System (ICS)
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Works with FREEDOM™ System
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Works with Rain Bird® MI Series Mobile Controller
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Number of 2-wire satellite wire groups standard 4 4 2 1
Number of IC™ wire groups standard 4 4 1 1
Maximum number of interfaces – Hybrid (same or mix) 12 3 2 –
Maximum number of 2-wire satellite wire groups – Hybrid 48** 12** 4** –
Maximum number of 2-wire satellite stations 32,256** 8,064** 2,688† 672
Maximum number of wireless satellite stations 32,256** 8,064** 2,688† 672
Maximum number of IC™ stations 36,000‡ 9,000‡ 3,000‡ 750
Number of decoders/solenoids standard 500/1,000 500/1,000 500/1,000 200/400
Maximum number of decoder/solenoids – Hybrid 6,000/12,000∆ 1,500/3,000∆ 700/1,400∆ 300/600 with LDI◊
Number of active decoder solenoids 40/LDI 40/LDI 40 with LDI 15 with SDI
Maximum number of weather stations 5 5 1 1 (WS-PRO LT only)
Maximum number of pump stations 6 6 6 2
PROGRAMMING
Standard/QuickIRR™/SimpleIRR™
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Number of courses 3 3 2 1
Number of holes 54 54 27 18
Number of Flo-Zones™ 500 500 500 50
Programs Unlimited Unlimited 500 250
Schedules 50 per program 50 per program 25 per program 25 per program
Irrigation programs – active simultaneous 50 50 20 10
SOFTWARE FEATURES
Flo-Manager® - Dynamic Power and Hydraulic Management
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Flo-Guard™
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ET Management (fully automatic)
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ET-Based scheduling
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ET Spreadsheet™ Analysis
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Rain Bird® MI Series Mobile Controller
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Wireless satellite radio diagnostics
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Comprehensive decoder diagnostics
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Advanced IC™ diagnostics
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Real-Time Run Log
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Report Generation
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Water Budgeting 0 – 300%
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Rain Bucket™ – accumulated rainfall
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Rain Sensor
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Rain Watch™
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QuickStart™
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Help Screens
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Course Monitor™
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Hole View
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Projected flow (Dryrun™)
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Graphics – Course View™
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Import GPS, CAD or Aerial photo
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Visual Monitoring – Area
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Visual Monitoring – Station level
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Smart Weather™ Alarms
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Precipitation Data
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Rotor Data
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Cycle + Soak™
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SOFTWARE MODULES
Automatic ET
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Optional Optional Optional
Smart Weather™
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Optional Optional –
Additional Weather Stations
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Smart Sensors™ with Flo-Watch™
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Optional Optional Optional
Rain Bird® Messenger™
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Optional Optional Optional
Hybrid – Additional interfaces (same or mix)
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The FREEDOM System™
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Optional Optional Optional
Map Utilities™
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Optional Optional Optional
Station Layers – Map/Operations
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Smart Pump™
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Optional Optional Optional
Additional Wire Groups
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** Possible with Hybrid Module and additional MIM™(s) †Possible with Hybrid Module and additional Wire Groups Module(s) ‡ Possible with Hybrid Module and additional ICI(s) ∆ Possible with Hybrid Module and additional LDI(s) ◊Possible using a LDI instead of Standard SDI. Hybrid not required.
Standard Central Control Features
Central Control Systems