Owner's Manual

The Rain Shutdown module can be quickly accessed in three
ways: by clicking on the Rain button in the tool bar, selecting
Rain Shutdown from the Group Operations menu or by pressing
the CTRL + R shortcut key combination. The Selection Choice
window will appear first. This is where you can select field units
for immediate shutdown or groups of field units from the group list
on the right. Clicking a box under Rain Days will open the
Rain Days Entry window. This is where you type the number of
days the field units will be inactive, then click OK. You can also
just pick the number of days from the selection. As an example,
if Pool Clubhouse is selected with 2 Rain Days, Pool Clubhouse
field unit will be off for two days after the data is sent. Multiple
units can be selected by clicking the edit box next to each desired
unit. Changes made will apply to all selected units.
If a group of units is selected from the listing on the right (greens
is selected in the example), all units associated with the group
greens will be affected with the selected Rain Days setting.
If greens is selected with two rain days, all units in the group
greens will be off for two days after Send is executed.
Clicking Select Program Description allows you to narrow the
selection by specifying the Primary Description as well as the
Secondary Description. All programs within the selected units
that fit both the primary and secondary descriptions are affected.
Example: Group greens is selected with Primary Description of
Turf with two rain days. Two Secondary Descriptions were
picked, North Slope and South Slope. Field units in the greens
group with programs fitting the descriptions, Turf and North
Slope, as well as programs with both Turf and South Slope
descriptions will be shut down for two days.
After finalizing the unit selection for Rain Days, click OK on the
Selection Choice window. The Rain Shutdown window will
launch. It is initially blank. Click Send to save the Rain Days
settings to the field units.
In the Rain Shutdown window, specific programs can be shut-
down with the check boxes to the left of this window. Selecting
programs here supercedes the selections from the Selection
Choice: Rain Shutdown window and will apply it to all selected
units. A default number of rain days can be entered which is used
for any unit that was selected on the previous screen but for which
no value was entered. The default number entered here
supersedes any values entered by description. When you click
Send, the program descriptions are filled in as each of the units
you selected is successively transmitted. Each attempted
transmission to a field unit as well as results are registered on the
Multi-Unit Comm Status window.
Chapter 13 : Rain Shutdown
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