claber 8323 Programmable Solenoid Valve User Manual

claber 8323 Programmable Solenoid Valve

Product Information

The Elettrovalvola Programmabile RF is a programmable solenoid valve that is fully watertight and can function even if installed permanently under water at a depth of up to one metre (IP68 ingress protection). It can be installed in the open or in a valve box, positioned either horizontally or vertically. The Elettrovalvola Programmabile RF comes with a control unit and a clear cover that must be fully screwed on right up to the seal to ensure it is watertight. It also comes with a remote control that requires 2 branded alkaline AAA 1.5V batteries (not rechargeable).

Product Usage Instructions

Installation:

1. Ensure that the control unit is aligned and inserted in the guides, and that the clear cover is fully screwed on right up to the seal.
2. Install the programmable solenoid valve observing the water flow direction indicated by the arrow: FLOW.
3. Insert 2 branded alkaline AAA 1.5V batteries (not rechargeable) into the remote control. Match up the poles as marked inside the compartment (++ – -).

Programming:

• The RF programmable solenoid valve can be programmed using the RF remote control (code 8347 manages up to 2 RF devices/ code 8348 manages up to 6 RF devices), sold separately.
• Without the RF remote control, you can only irrigate manually.

Led Indicators on Display Panel:

• 30 seconds after having fitted the batteries, or pressed any of the buttons, the Leds on the panel will go out: to refresh the display, press any button.
• A. Symbol – Green flashing light – Meaning: OK
• B. Symbol – Green flashing light – Meaning: FLOW
• C. Symbol – Red flashing light – Meaning: LOW
• D. Symbol – Red flashing light – Meaning:
• E. Symbol – Green solid light – Meaning:

INSTALLATION

The programmable solenoid valve is fully watertight and will function even if installed permanently under water at a depth of up to one metre (IP68 ingress protection). It can be installed in the open or in a valve box, positioned either horizontally or vertically. To ensure it is watertight, make sure that the control unit is aligned and inserted in the guides, and that the clear cover is fully screwed on right up to the seal, which must be correctly positioned. Warning: be certain to install the programmable solenoid valve observing the water flow direction indicated by the arrow: “FLOW”.

FITTING THE BATTERIES

Solenoid valve
Unscrew the transparent cover. Remove the control unit. Unscrew the battery compartment plug, take out the battery-holder, and if present, remove the drained batteries. Fit the new batteries in the holder, observing the correct polarity. Retighten the cap, checking that the seal is positioned correctly in its seat. Align the control unit with the guide on the casing and fit it back into place. Retighten the transparent cover, checking that the seal is in its seat. Warning: use branded AAA Alkaline 1.5 V batteries (not rechargeable) only. Once the batteries are fitted, an initialization routine will start (display Leds light up in sequence, valves close in sequence).

• Important: remember to turn on the water tap.

Remote Control
Remove the cover on the back of the remote control and insert 2 branded alkaline AAA 1.5V batteries (not rechargeable). N.B. Match up the poles as marked inside the compartment (++ – -).

GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS

Description of Led indicators on display panel
30 seconds after having fitted the batteries, or pressed any of the buttons, the Leds on the panel will go out: to refresh the display, press any button. The RF programmable solenoid valve can be programmed using the RF remote control (code 8347 manages up to 2 RF devices/ code 8348 manages up to 6 RF devices), sold separately. Without the RF remote control, you can only irrigate manually.

A. Symbol 1

B. Symbol OK

Flashing green light

| Indicates that the line is open in manual mode. Press the OK button to close the line.

C. Symbol – Indicates the status of the RF Rain Sensor (only if the RF Remote Control is set up with the RAIN SENSOR function activated for the RF unit: see the
relevant section).

Sensor.
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| The RF solenoid valve has received no signal from the RF Rain Sensor for more than 24 hours for one of the following reasons:

1. the batteries of the RF Rain Sensor are flat (replace the batteries);
2. the radio frequency signal is too weak (position the sensor nearer to the RF unit).

Blinking

D. Simbolo RF – Indicates that the unit is dialoguing with the RF Remote Control.

progress.
Green, blinking| Data transmission in progress.

E. Symbol  – Indicates the charge status of the batteries.

F. CLOCK symbol – Indicates the operational status of the remote control.

programmes from the remote control to the solenoid valve.
| Connected, time synchronized. Watering programmes set to run automatically. Automatic watering enabled.|
Green, permanently alight
| Paired, time NOT synchronised between the two devices (for example, because the time has been lost due to a prolonged period without batteries). the irrigation programmes will be run at different times to those set on the RF remote control.| Riprogrammare l’elettrovalvola.
Green blinking| Reprogramme the solenoid valve.
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The red colour of the clock symbol , whether permanently alight or blinking, warns that the RF unit is not currently programmed for automatic watering.

USE. The solenoid valve allows control of 1 line in the following modes: Manual waterin, Programmed irrigation.

Manual watering.
The line can be opened or shut manually both locally, or remotely by remote control (see the relevant section).

• If the panel of the programmable solenoid valve is off, press any button on the panel to reactivate it.
• Use the arrows to engage the line (1).
• Press the OK button to open the line (the OK symbol flashes when the line is open and the number “1” lights up) (2).
• Press OK to shut off the open solenoid valve manually or wait 5 minutes for it to close automatically (3).
• Manually opening the solenoid valve interrupts any automatic irrigation in progress.

Remote control display information

1. Indicate the programmed start times (start time) for automatic watering,
2. Indicates battery level,
3. Indicates the line which is being programmed,
4. Indicate which programmes (only A, only B, both A and B neither A nor B) are enabled,
5. Indicates the page for testing and manual watering,
6. Indicates that we are in change parameter mode,
7.  Shows start time pages,
8. Indicate the time or, in the programming pages, the run time and start time of watering,
9.  Indicates that watering is in progress,
10. Indicates the day of the week in which watering is required and with which of the two programmes.

HOW TO USE THE REMOTE CONTROL KEYPAD
 Only three keys let you set all the parameters. The arrows let you scroll through the various pages in order to select the one desired. The OK key lets you access the EDITING of the parameter displayed. When is pressed, OK appears in the bottom left display. With OK, the arrows turn on and let you edit the value of the parameter displayed. Once you have reached the desired value, press OK to confirm the change. At the bottom right of the display, “OK” will show. It is now possible to go back to the page with the arrows. If a key is not pressed for approximately 5 minutes, the water timer automatically returns to the date and hour page, without confirming the changes in progress.

CONNECTIONS

Procedure for the connection of the RF solenoid valve – RF Remote Control. To pair the devices, keep them no less than 50 cm and no more than 10 metres apart and ensure there are no obstacles (1). Press any button to activate the solenoid valve. Press the three RF solenoid valve buttons at the same time and hold for at least 5 seconds, until the red LEDs with the CLOCK and RF symbols start to flash (2). Hold down the Remote control RF UNIT button to select the RF Unit number to which the RF solenoid valve is to be associated (3). Within one minute from completing point 2, insert a pointy object into hole S1 in the RF remote control for a few seconds: a radio frequency icon will appear. The Remote control RF display fiashes indicating that the two components are trying to establish a radio frequency connection.

The outcome of the connection procedure is indicated on the RF Remote Control display when the RF symbol stops blinking:

• connection failed: RF symbol permanently alight and error symbol blinking. (1). Repeat the connection procedure.
• connection successful: RF symbol off. The paired unit will show (e.g. 1 AB Unit)(2).
• Regardless of the outcome of the pairing, all the symbols will light up in sequence on the RF programmable solenoid valve display. If pairing is successful,
• RF programmable solenoid valve will display the clock symbol alternating red/green (3).

USE.
The RF programmable solenoid valve controls a watering line. On the remote control, each line has two independent programmes, A and B. In both programmes up to 4 daily start times can be set in a 24-hour span.

GUIDELINES ON PROGRAMMING

The display provides information about all the programming pages in the order they appear: the arrows allow the user to scroll through the different pages. The OK key lets you access the EDITING of the parameter displayed.

PROGRAMMING EXAMPLE

PROGRAM A

PROGRAM B

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

REMOTE CONTROL

USE – Programmed watering. Setting the day and time.
Press OK (1) and use the two arrows to set the desired time (2). Press OK to confirm (3). Use the arrows to set the day of the week (4-5) and press OK (6). The days are shown as: S Sunday, M Monday, T Tuesday, W Wednesday, T Thursday, F Friday, S Saturday.

PROGRAMMING WATERING. Set/modify the RUN TIME.
The RUN TIME page allows the user to set a watering run time for programme A and programme B for the LINE. The watering cycle run time for each line can be set from 1 to 60 minutes. From the page showing the time, press UNIT until you arrive at the unit to be programmed. Press the right arrow. From the RUN TIME page, press OK to enable modification, the symbol OK flashes indicating that the parameters displayed can be modified and require a setting confirmation. Using the arrows changes the value displayed (by pressing and holding the keys, the value will change more quickly). Press OK to confirm the set value. Press the right arrow to go to the START TIME settings.

USE – Programmed watering. Set from 1 to 4 watering cycles start times.

• To set start 1 press OK (1), the 1 symbol is fixed (2).
• Use the arrows to enter the start time for irrigation 1 (i.e. 8:00) with the use of the arrrow buttons (scrolling is faster when holding down the buttons) (3).
• Press OK to confirm the time entered (4).
• Press the right arrow to display the next programming page (5). Set the other start times in the same way. OFF: no programmed starts. Enter times in sequence, within a 24-hour timeframe.
• Press the right arrow to display the next programming page: irrigation days.

USE – Programmed watering. Choose in which days to activate the watering cycles set (WEEKLY SCHEDULE).
Press OK (1) to access the screen where you can modify weekly programming (flashing S = Sunday). Press the arrows to move to future days (2). Press OK multiple times to delete or reinstate irrigation on the selected day (in this example, W = WEDNESDAY is deleted) (3). To exit, press the arrows until you reach EXIT (4); press OK when EXIT flashes (5). Press the right arrow to display the next programming page: Rain Sensor RF. The days are shown as: S Sunday, M Monday, T Tuesday, W Wednesday, T Thursday, F Friday, S Saturday.

CONNECTIONS

Procedure for the connection of RF programmable solenoid valve – RF Rain Sensor.
The RF solenoid valve recognises the signal of an installed RF Rain Sensor, provided the devices are no more than 30m away (obstacle free) and there are no other radio frequency signals.

WATERING PROGRAMMING – Rain Sensor RF.
From the RAIN SENSOR page press OK, activates when the Rain Sensor RF activates/deactivates. Press the right arrow to move the status from “NO” (sensor deactivated) to “YES” (sensor activated) and vice versa. Confirm by pressing OK. Recognition between the devices takes about 5-10 minutes.

Status of Rain Sensor RF:

• ON: Sensor EMPTY or not active for the water timer.
• Permanently on: Sensor FULL or active for the water timer. With the sensor FULL any watering programmes are interrupted and other programmes start automatically while the symbol remains active.
• Active and flashing: the water timer has not received any information from the Rain Sensor RF for more than 24 hours and is working independently from the sensor. Check the Rain Sensor RF installation and batteries.

Warning:
The RF solenoid valve can only be combined with the RF Rain Sensor (code 90831), not the wired Rain Sensor (code 90915).

USE – Programmed watering
Test/manual watering. Press the right arrow to display the next programming page: manual testing. Press the RF button to activate communication between remote control and the RF solenoid valve (1); the TEST message will blink briefly. The display shows line 1 and the message OFF (2); press OK to activate watering for a preset time of 5 minutes (3). Press OK a second time to stop watering before the end of the preset time. To quit the function, press the right arrow until TEST is displayed (4), then press OK (5). Press the right arrow to return to the UNIT page (6). To go back to the TIME/DAY page, press the UNIT button several times. To access manual programming directly from the TIME/DAY page, press the UNIT button to display the desired unit. Press the right arrow and go to the test page. Proceed as indicated above.

PROGRAMMING WATERING
Enabling programmes A and B and setting to off. The DAY/TIME screen is normally shown on the display; press the

• UNIT button, use the arrows to select the unit and press OK. Press the arrows to enable programme A, programme B or both programmes, or to set them to OFF.
• N.B. Programme A irrigation cycles can overlap with programme B irrigation cycles (if there is an insuficient flow rate in the system, this may affect the irrigation quality).
• Once the selection has been made, press OK to confirm enabling of the programmes displayed.

USE – Programmed watering. Transferring the data entered from RF remote control to RF solenoid valve.
Keep the devices no less than 50 cm and no more than 10 metres apart and ensure there are no obstacles (1). Press the UNIT button to choose the unit (2) and press the RF button (3). The flashing RF icon will be displayed on the remote control screen for a few seconds (4). The subsequent disappearance of the RF symbol indicates that the update was successful. If ERR blinking appears on the remote control, bring the two devices closer together and repeat this operation (5). press the UNIT button several times to return to the DATE/TIME page (6). Each change made from the RF remote control must be transferred to the RF solenoid valve. After replacing the RF solenoid valve batteries, synchronise the time from the RF remote control in the same way.

RESET

ESET restores factory settings, deleting all watering programmes and pairings with the RF Rain Sensor and the RF remote control. To RESET the valve, press both arrows at the same time and hold for 10 seconds, until all the symbols light up in sequence (1). To reset the RF remote control, insert a pointy object in hole S1 and press both arrows at the same time and hold for 10 seconds (2).

CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE

• At the end of the season, before the winter frosts, turn off the water and drain the system, manually opening the valve to run off the water remaining inside.
• Remove the control unit and store it in a dry place, where the temperature does not fall below 3°C. Remember to remove the batteries.
• At the start of the season, insert new batteries and close the lid, taking care to insert the seal correctly.
• Connect the wires to the blue solenoid valve matching up the poles (red + black -) and reinsert the control unit, lining it up in the guides and taking care not to crush the wires. Always put the clear cover back on and fully close, checking that the seal is correctly in place.

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