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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2016
Applicant:
Michael R. Levine, Pinckney, MI (US);
Inventors:
Michael R. Levine, Pinckney, MI (US);
Luke Dickens, Fortson, GA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 15/00 (2006.01); G05D 7/06 (2006.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 7/0676 (2013.01); G05B 15/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
An auxiliary sprinkler controller is used to control sprinkling by selectively enabling or inhibiting operation of a legacy sprinkler controller. The legacy sprinkler controller provides electrical power to a particular zone of several zones during each of a plurality of durations, and multiple durations, 'n,' are provided for each zone. As a result, each zone can be watered for any of 2combinations of the durations for a desired total watering duration.