GARDENA Automatic 6 Zone Mechanical Water Distributor

[Rogers Watering]

I have a single station which is connected with a hose pipe to a GARDENA Automatic 6 Zone Mechanical Water Distributor. I have 4 (of a possible 6) hose pipes hooked up to this. The 4 hose pipes run 1 by one. Each time the water turns on, it switched to the next hose pipe. If I used fixed times, I can do a full watering with it on for 9 min and off for 1 min and then repeating three times.

If I introduce variable length watering (Zimmerman, etc), then I’d really like to say run for 9min * 100%, delay 1 min, and then repeat that three times. What is the best way to achieve this, or is it not possible?

Both methods of repeating seem to require fixed start times and if Zimmerman set the watering to 200%, then the programs would run into one another and I guess would result is longer runs on fewer zones maybe.

My fallback would be to spread the watering out to account for the 200% max clamping rule, that would work, but would just make the start-end full cycle longer for every run instead of just the >100% runs.

i.e. 100% = 9 + 1 + 9 + 1 + 9 + 1 9 vs 200% = 18 + 1 + 18 + 1 + 18 + 1 + 18

Notes:

Clamping Rule:
    * The final watering percentage is always limited between 0% and 200%.
    * https://openthings.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5000823370-use-weather-adjustments#zimmerman
Mechanical Water Distributor
    * https://www.amazon.com/Gardena-Automatic-Mechanical-Water-Distributor/dp/B006MWDQGA

[Ray]

In Edit Options -> Station Handling, there is an option called ‘Station Delay Time’. It inserts a fixed delay between every two zones. The delay time is fixed regardless of the watering percentage. I know you have just one zone, but there is a work-around to achieve what you want: you split the one zone wires into 4, and connect those to zones 1, 2, 3, 4 respectively. Physically it’s just 1 zone, but logically it’s 4. That way, you can set a program to turn on zones 1, 2, 3, 4 (which physically correspond to the same zone), but it will insert the delay time between them.

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