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I n t r o d u c t i o n Page 8 Baseline 3200 Soil Moisture Content Soil scientists and Agronomists have been studying the plant-water-soil system f

I n t r o d u c t i o n Page 9 Baseline 3200 Watering Strategies Each property is unique, and has unique watering requirements. In order to support

I n t r o d u c t i o n Page 10 Baseline 3200 One important thing to remember about watering strategies: any one zone (or valve) can only be watere

I n t r o d u c t i o n Page 11 Baseline 3200 one Schedule Group, and are controlled by a single soil moisture sensor in one of the infields. Likewi

I n t r o d u c t i o n Page 12 Baseline 3200 As you can see from the tables above, most sprinkler heads have higher precipitation rates than most

I n t r o d u c t i o n Page 13 Baseline 3200  If you do get brown spots in your landscape, fixing distribution uniformity issues will give better

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 14 Baseline 3200 1 Getting Started Section Contents  Installing the BaseStation 320

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 15 Baseline 3200 X/XS-series Wall Mount Cabinets The X and XS series Wall Mount cabinets

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 16 Baseline 3200 P-series Pedestals Cabinets The P-series Pedestal units are designed to

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 17 Baseline 3200 Installing Standard Accessories Rain Switches and other Normally Closed

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C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 18 Baseline 3200 A1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 B1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12biSensor Connect

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 19 Baseline 3200 Connecting Valve Wires and Moisture Sensors over Valve Wires Baseline bi

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 20 Baseline 3200 Two-wire Installation All BaseStation 3200 and 3200R controllers are eq

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 21 Baseline 3200 Serial Numbers for zones 1-24 in a BaseStation 3200R BaseStation 3200R

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 22 Baseline 3200 Wire Lengths Total wire length supported depends on the gauge of the wi

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 23 Baseline 3200 Wire Burial Wire should be buried at a depth appropriate to protect the

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 24 Baseline 3200 For R-series controllers, a lightning arrestor and appropriate ground r

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 25 Baseline 3200 Total Supported Devices & Limits Listed below are the total numbers

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 26 Baseline 3200 Installing biSensor Soil Moisture Sensors In order to locate a good pla

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 27 Baseline 3200 Dealing with Slopes and Berms Steep slopes and berms are possibly the mo

Page 1 Baseline 3200 Congratulations! Congratulations on choosing the most capable and easiest to use commercial grade smart irrigation controller in

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 28 Baseline 3200 Turfgrass As stated above, the sensor should be buried 2” to 3” to the

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 29 Baseline 3200 Angling the sensor can profile a deeper soil column for trees that have

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 30 Baseline 3200 Searching for and Assigning Devices Before any biCoders or biSensors ca

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 31 Baseline 3200 Step 1: Search for biCoders Valve biCoder assignment is accomplished in

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 32 Baseline 3200 Zone Status Note that the status of each zone is shown in the Zone Numb

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 33 Baseline 3200 Assigning biSensors to Primary Zones Refer to Section 2, Moisture Based

C h a p t e r 1 – G e t t i n g S t a r t e d Page 34 Baseline 3200 On-screen Reports Follow the on-screen instructions to access reports f

C h a p t e r 2 – B a s i c P r o g r a m m i n g Page 35 Baseline 3200 2 Basic Programming Section Contents  Time Based Watering ...

C h a p t e r 2 – B a s i c P r o g r a m m i ng Page 36 Baseline 3200 Even within a group of zones there will be a need to have different r

C h a p t e r 2 – B a s i c P r o g r a m m i n g Page 37 Baseline 3200 minute increments from the top of the hour. If there is no start ti

Page 2 Baseline 3200 Table of Contents Introduction ...

C h a p t e r 2 – B a s i c P r o g r a m m i ng Page 38 Baseline 3200 yes on a day will allow a start time to start the program.  A progr

C h a p t e r 2 – B a s i c P r o g r a m m i n g Page 39 Baseline 3200 Micro-Climates and Zone Scheduling Groups Your site is composed of

C h a p t e r 2 – B a s i c P r o g r a m m i ng Page 40 Baseline 3200  Soak-cycles must be used with biSensors – besides allowing the app

C h a p t e r 2 – B a s i c P r o g r a m m i n g Page 41 Baseline 3200 Upper Limit This water strategy also has several programming options

C h a p t e r 2 – B a s i c P r o g r a m m i ng Page 42 Baseline 3200  Program start time  Valid water day  If a moisture biSensor is

C h a p t e r 3 – A d v a n c e d P r o g r a m m i n g Page 43 Baseline 3200 3 Advanced Programming Chapter Contents  Flow Management &

C h a p t e r 3 – A d v a n c e d P r o g r a m m i n g Page 44 Baseline 3200 when programming the flow device, or when referring to the fl

C h a p t e r 3 – A d v a n c e d P r o g r a m m i n g Page 45 Baseline 3200 is used as efficiently as possible. Setting this value to zer

C h a p t e r 3 – A d v a n c e d P r o g r a m m i n g Page 46 Baseline 3200 the zone is considered stable after the delay time. One minu

C h a p t e r 3 – A d v a n c e d P r o g r a m m i n g Page 47 Baseline 3200 zone would run concurrently. If program B was running by itse

Page 3 Baseline 3200 BL Commander Handheld Remote Control ... 34 BL Commander Permanent Mount Rec

C h a p t e r 3 – A d v a n c e d P r o g r a m m i n g Page 48 Baseline 3200 Zone Flow Each zone can have a design flow set manually, or i

C h a p t e r 3 – A d v a n c e d P r o g r a m m i n g Page 49 Baseline 3200 The mainline assignments are made in the Mainline Configure me

C h a p t e r 3 – A d v a n c e d P r o g r a m m i n g Page 50 Baseline 3200

C h a p t e r 4 – T r o u b l e s h o o t i n g Page 51 Baseline 3200 4 Troubleshooting Section Contents  Zones, Valves and biCoders ...

C h a p t e r 4 – T r o u b l e s h o o t i n g Page 52 Baseline 3200 4. Press ENTR to test the biSensor. This test will return the curre

C h a p t e r 4 – T r o u b l e s h o o t i n g Page 53 Baseline 3200 Two-wire – High Current or Shorted The first step in troubleshooting t

C h a p t e r 4 – T r o u b l e s h o o t i n g Page 54 Baseline 3200

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 55 Baseline 3200 5 Reference Section Contents  Dial Positions ...

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 56 Baseline 3200 block of fifty zones, press the + key. The + and – keys can be used to navigate

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 57 Baseline 3200 conditions then use the + or – keys to scroll between each of them. Each pause co

Page 4 Baseline 3200 biSensor Menu ... 64 biCoder Menu ...

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 58 Baseline 3200 Pause Switch  An open jumper or wired switch will pause all watering on the con

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 59 Baseline 3200  Calibrate Failure: saturation not reached  Water flow rate has exceeded limit

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 60 Baseline 3200 Primary  This zone type is used for the first zone in a zone scheduling group.

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 61 Baseline 3200 Program Water Windows Enter the water windows screen by highlighting the Set Water

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 62 Baseline 3200 Even Days This day interval mode will allow programs to start on even days of the

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 63 Baseline 3200 Date/Time The date and time should be set when the controller is installed, and wh

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 64 Baseline 3200 Flow Menu This dial position provides the programming for flow management and co

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 65 Baseline 3200 The after the first valve biCoders have been connected to the two-wire, a Search o

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 66 Baseline 3200 AUX – Rain/Off This function will stop all water for a specified number of days.

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 67 Baseline 3200 AUX – USB Data The BaseStation 3200 has a USB port that is used for data and progr

I n t r o d u c t io n Page 5 Baseline 3200 i Introduction Section Contents  Controller Front Panel Layout ...

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 68 Baseline 3200 AUX – Budget Program watering budgets are included only for completeness and are

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 69 Baseline 3200 Self-Test – Zone Test Doing a zone test will verify communication between the cont

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 70 Baseline 3200 Self-Test – Verify and Repair All This function will verify communication with ea

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 71 Baseline 3200 Manual Water This dial position provides a way to run a single zone, the zones of

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 72 Baseline 3200 OFF This is the shutdown dial position for the controller. With the dial in this

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 73 Baseline 3200 Two-wire Devices There are many device types that can be connected in any order al

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 74 Baseline 3200 and offset and when found during a search operation, will auto-program these valu

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 75 Baseline 3200 Pause biCoder The BL-5402 is a biCoder which connects directly to the two-wire, an

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 76 Baseline 3200 quality. These biCoders have the additional ability to communicate with a moistu

C h a p t e r 5 – R e f e r e n c e Page 77 Baseline 3200 BL-Commander The BL-Commander is a handheld radio for activating valves while away

I n t r o d u c t i o n Page 6 Baseline 3200 Cabinet Options The BaseStation 3200 is available in three basic cabinets:  C-series: 16 gauge steel

A p p e n d i x – G l o s s a r y o f T e r m s Page 78 Baseline 3200 Glossary of Terms Auto Calibration The controller is able to determ

A p p e n d i x – G l o s s a r y o f T e r m s Page 79 Baseline 3200 MV This is a master valve, and may also refer to a pump start. The

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I n t r o d u c t i o n Page 7 Baseline 3200 How to Irrigate Efficiently This section covers some key concepts essential to better and more efficien