Owner's Manual

The Flow Graph Report requires a flow meter connected to the

field unit. The screen is unavailable unless the Data Retrieval

option is selected in Special Data. This report graphs the

instantaneous number of gallons the field unit has consumed

throughout any four hour period of the current or previous day.

Clicking Receive will read the flow data for the entire day

selected. Clicking Yesterday or Today will also instruct Sentinel

to receive a full day’s flow graph. Once Today’s or Yesterday’s

data is received, any one of the four hour periods can be

selected to display.

The Rain Fall Report receives and displays daily and monthly rainfall

data in inches recorded in the field unit if a rain gauge is connected.

This report is similar in appearance to the Water Consumption Report

and ET Report, with similar functionality of the Quick Stats and Graph

Monthly Rain.

If your current system uses a GroWeather Station, the total rain

amount for Today and Yesterday are displayed immediately upon

opening the Rain Report. If the central computer is connected directly

to a Campbell Weather Station, it will read these values from the

weather station, which will take a few moments before opening the

utility window, and a command button will be available to access the

weather report.

Clicking the Receive command reads the daily and monthly rainfall

values from the beginning of the previous year to the present day. You can also enter values on the screen and send data to

the field unit. However, as a precaution against inadvertently overwriting data in the field unit, editing and sending data is

temporarily disabled when this screen is opened until the Receive command is executed to display any data already in the

field unit.

Once Receive has been executed, editing is allowed and the Send command is enabled.

Clicking Graph Monthly Rain produces a bar graph which you can print on your default printer.

If you have a GroWeather Station or a Campbell Weather Station, you can send the value for today’s rainfall to the

controller. Enter the number seen from the Today box under Weather Station Rain to the Unit Rain Today box. You can

also copy and paste it in. Just drag your mouse across the number (with the button pressed) to highlight it, hold the Ctrl key

and press the C key to copy; then click inside the Unit Rain Today box, hold the Ctrl key and press the V key to paste the

number in. If you are irrigating based on ET, this number is used in the field units along with the daily ET values. Chapters 10

and 11 show you how these numbers can be transmitted to all units automatically.

The ET Report is similar in appearance to the Rain Report and is presented in detail in Chapter 10.