Baseline Systems BaseStation 1000 - Manual (Page 32)

BaseStation 1000 Irrigation Controller Manual
4 – Configuring Devices
After you have finished connecting all your devices, you need to have the controller find those
devices so you can assign them.
The devices that you can attach to the BaseStation 1000 have serial numbers. The controller
identifies an attached device by its serial number. After you have searched for the attached
devices, you can assign each serial number to a specific purpose in the controller. For example, you
map a valve biCoder’s serial number to the number or address of the zone that the valve waters.
The base model of the BaseStation 1000 controller accommodates up to 50 zones, and those zones
are identified in the controller with numbers 1 to 50. These numbers are also referred to as
“addresses” because they tell the controller where a specific device “lives.”
Before you can configure any devices such as biCoders or biSensors in the controller, the controller
must find those devices, and then you must assign them. You can connect the following types of
biCoders and other two-wire devices directly to the two-wire path:
• Valve biCoders (decoders)
• Master valve and pump start biCoders
• biSensors (soil moisture sensors)
• Flow biCoders
• Event switch biCoders
• Air temperature sensors
Searching for and Assigning biCoders
(including Powered biCoders)
1. Press the Search & Assign button. The Search & Assign menu displays.
2. If the Zone option is highlighted, press the OK button to select it. If Zone is not highlighted,
press the  or  button to highlight it, and then press the OK button. The Zone screen
displays.
3. If the Device Assignment option is highlighted, press the OK button to select it. If Device
Assignment is not highlighted, press the  or  button to highlight it, and then press the OK
button. The Zone Assignment screen displays.
4. When the Search option in the Action column is highlighted, press the OK button to search
for biCoders.
When the controller finds the devices, their serial numbers display in the Action column.
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