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Congratulations!
Your
new dual program Rain Bird sprinkler system timer makes
automated watering a reality for you. The state-of-the-art features will enable you to
precisely program how you want your sprinkler system to operate.
The Rain Bird PC-200 series timer allows you to match your landscapes watering
needs in four ways:
Dual programs
You may require different frequencies of watering in different parts of your yard. For
example, your lawn may require watering three times per week but your garden may
only need water twice per week. This water-conserving feature is called "Dual Pro-
grams" and it allows you to assign any station to either the “A” program or the “C” pro-
gram or both programs. Each program can have its own watering day schedule, its
own daily start times, and each station can have different run times on each program.
Flexible watering days
In this era of water restrictions, you may have to water every other day and other times
you may have to water only on certain days. Fortunately, Rain Bird PC-200 series
timers have a built-in program called “Flexible Watering Days” which allows you to
switch from cycling (i.e. every third day) to day of the week watering (i.e. Mon-Wed-
Fri). The “A” and “C” programs can have different watering cycles or watering days.
Watering run time per station
Since different types of landscapes -lawns, shrubs, flowers, ground cover, etc.- re-
quire different amounts of water, Rain Bird timers are designed to allow each station to
water its own length of time, from 0 minutes to 99 minutes in one minute increments. A
“station” is made up of one valve plus the sprinklers that the valve operates. If you
want to assign a station to run on both the “A” program and on the “C” program, you
can assign different amounts of run time for the same station.
Daily start times per program
The PC-200 timer can start watering the "A" or "C" programs once, twice or three
times per day, at any hour you select. The "A" start times can be different from the "C"
start times. For example, the "A" program could start once per day at 8:00 am and the
"C" program three times a day at 7:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., and 7:00 p.m. The timer keeps
track of the particular start times for each day.
Special features
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Solid state design for digital accuracy,
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A 9-Volt battery (not included) holds programs for up to 24 hours and remembers
time during a power outage,
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A built-in emergency program of 10 minutes per day, every day for each station au-
tomatically starts if the power is out and the battery is dead,
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A System Off button to shutdown the system in the event of rain.
Important:
The PC-204 and PC-206 are designed for use with standard 24 volt AC
electric valves regardless of brand. However, some older brass valves and commercial
duty valves have power requirements higher than this timers capability (1/2 amp for
PC-204 and PC-206 and 3/4 amp for PC-204-PS and PC-206-PS) and should not be
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