Smart Cycle and time run

post by Kutarheel on Sep 26, 2018

I have Smart Cycle enabled on my lawn zones (5). If it takes 2 runs to complete one zone, why does the history show watering for each zone in consecutive minutes? Example: Zone 1 started at 6:12 and completed at 6:24.

post by ssindelman on Sep 26, 2018

That is showing when the first run in that zone’s cycle & soak ran. You should see that same Zone 1 appear again in your day’s history for the 2nd run.

For example, my history from this morning looks like this:

Zone 1 started @ 4:08am

Zone 2 started @ 4:17am

Zone 1 completed @ 4:17am

…

Zone 6 completed @ 5:03am

Zone1 started @ 5:19am

Make sense?

post by Kutarheel on Sep 26, 2018

Yes, that does make sense. But my history doesn’t look like that even though I have Smart Cycle enabled for the grass zones. My history shows Zone 1 started 5:30, Zone 1 completed 5:43; Zone 2 started 5:43, completed 5:56 and so on through the remaining zones. All zones only show being run once.

post by Linn on Sep 26, 2018

It’s totally possible that you might have Smart Cycle turned on, but based on your slope, soil type and nozzle you might not need Smart Cycle. See Smart Cycle and manual cycle and soak features and look at "How long can a zone’s watering duration continue before it needs to get cycle soaked?" under the FAQs.