Monday, November 21, 2016

The Components Used For A Golf Course Irrigation

By Helen Phillips


Irrigation systems now are becoming very much useful since the development of sprinklers. Nowadays, the manufacturers are offering some mixtures of different products in order to minimize the control for irrigation and also in order to irrigate the grounds. The simplest type among the irrigation systems were used mostly in residential houses and these types are consist of controllers that are connected to the valves.

However, due to the maintenance of turf that is of high quality, the complexity of these systems have been increasing. Thus, golf course irrigation systems are said to be more complex to residential uses for some reasons. These include low height for mowing, various requirements for water, and high volume for the irrigated area. The following are the different components of the system and how these are being developed.

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 are the field controllers. Field controllers are sometimes called as satellites and these are often contained inside a metal box which is being mounted into a concrete footing. The central system will be sending directions towards the sub components or the field controllers and tells the sprinklers to either turn on or off. These controllers are connected to sprinklers while the central system is not.

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, weather stations and weather sensors. One advantage of this is getting the conditions in exact information than readings which are coming form the regional weather services. Some data that are collected from these weather stations are humidity, soil moisture, rainfall, and wind speed.

Evapotranspiration is one process for the total loss of the amount of water because of transpiration and of evaporation. The level is usually high specifically during hot, low humidity, or sunny seasons and low if the season is cool, high humidity, or cloudy. Irrigation process replace soil moisture during 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 is the storm protection. It is also important for storm protection to be provided. One very common form of damage for the irrigation system is the power surge that if this will happen, may result to lightning strikes. Lightning may cause an electrical surge, running through the wires and can damage the sprinklers and other equipment. The systems for lightning protection are installed to the electrical components of systems.




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