Tuesday, November 15, 2016

The Different Components Of Golf Course Irrigation

By Helen Phillips


An irrigation system is becoming very useful since the sprinklers were being developed. These days, manufacturers are now offering the mixtures of the different mixtures for the purpose of maximizing the irrigation control and also on irrigating grounds. Those which are utilized mostly in the residential houses are the simplest forms of irrigation systems and these are composed of controllers in connection to valves.

However, because of the reason that turf maintenance has a high quality, these systems are becoming very complex and is continuously increasing. And thus, the golf course irrigation systems can be considered as complex as well for residential uses. The reasons include various requirements of water, high volume in irrigated areas, and low height when mowing. So here are the following components for the system and their development.

First is central control. Because of its complexity and its size as well, the system would act as the network of the controllers. And among these networks, the brain is central control. This is usually located together with maintenance facilities and this has the control of all the golf course sprinklers. This is a software based system that can monitor real time activities, flow management, and weather stations.

Second, field controllers. These can sometimes be referred to as satellites. The location of these are inside the metal boxes which are mounted to concrete footings. A central systems will send the directions into the sub component or the field controller and will also send a message to the sprinkler when turning on or off. The controllers have a connection with sprinklers and a central system does not have.

Third, the central control for a satellite communication. When programs have been set to computers, a central control will be the one to send directions to the satellite since computers cannot be able to directly communicate with a satellite but can communicate with an interface. A interface interprets and sends instructions. The satellite communications are either two way or one way.

Fourth are the weather stations and the weather sensors. The advantage if this component is to get the exact conditions instead of readings coming from regional weather services. The data which are being collected from the weather stations would include rainfall, humidity, wind speed, and soil moisture.

Evapotranspiration is the process of losing water totally due to the combined evaporation and transpiration. Usually, there is a high level during low humidity, sunny, or hot seasons and has low level in high humidity, cloudy, or cool seasons. Processes of irrigation would replace a soil moisture in evapotranspiration.

How sensor decoders are used is the same as how these are used in valves. The sensors of soil moisture and temperature can be connected to these. In this way, the data will be downloaded into the central system.

And fifth, storm protection. A storm protection is very important. One most common type of damage in an irrigation system that may possibly happen is power surge which may probably result to some lightning strikes. These lightning strikes can cause electrical surges that will run through wires, thus, damaging the sprinklers and some other important equipment. Systems used in lightning protection will be installed in electrical components in the system.




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