New Ca watering regs revisited

Chris, thank you most kindly for that rundown. I’m especially delighted that the unit you suggest below uses flashlight batteries and grateful it costs no more than the 62001 I had been considering for the application--was afraid I'd go broke replacing all those 9-volters

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Orbit+Model+%23+24723

... though I had hoped for a single-station unit. But because yours can handle two valves at once (probably my max, owing to certain pressure requirements) I am hoping I won’t need to buy 12 of the units but only 6. The new High Desert regs (only at night, only 2 days/week, etc etc) being so very involved, I’m fwding this to my sons, who are better at making such judgments

(I should add for their benefit however that two of our outlets already handle two stations each; but if I understand your rundown correctly your 24723 could be programmed for the two valves to come on at different times)

Thanks too for the admission that it won’t skip a week, as we had expected. I believe however that I can successfully water our trees once a week instead. Have to increase total dosage of course to reach the same depth so if my sons (and my Better Half, who I am sure you’ll agree are all smarter than I) agree, thank you again Chris for your patience and forbearance

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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: June 22, 2015 at 9:53:25 AM PDT
Subject: Technical Support Response to issue number F6J8572456

Dale,
Model # 24723 meets some of those requirements. It is powered by 2 AA batteries. It comes with a timer/4 port manifold/2 valves. You can purchase 2 additional valves for it as well. So it can control up to 4 valves/stations. It has 3 progams, A/B/C. So you can set up 3 different schedules/start times. So for example if you wanted it to run at 8AM and 8PM, you could do 8AM on A and 8PM on B. Or if you wanted the first valve to be on a Monday and the 2nd valve to be on a Friday, you could do 1 on A and 2 on B, etc. You can program it for specific days, but you can not make it skip weeks. None of our timers can be programmed to run specific days, but have weeks skipped inbetween. It can also be programmed on a interval, but only up to 7 days. So that would be the equivalent of once a week.

If you need further help, please call us at 1-800-488-6156, option 1. (7am-5pm MDT/Mon-Fri).
Thank you,
Chris
Technical Support
Orbit Irrigation Products, Inc.