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I bought a hunter pro c controller for my about to be installed system. I chose this model due to it having 3 programs with up to 4 start times on each program.
My desire was to be able use one program for lawn areas.I wanted to have multiple start times in order to create a "soak" cycle. Meaning let the first lawn zone come on for like 5 mins. then 2nd lawn zone, then 3rd (all for just 5 mins.) then start again with zone 1 and let it run another 10 minutes, zone 2 10 mins., etc. Final round starting with zone 1 for 20 mins., zone 2 20 mins etc. This is to allow water to soak in gradually to ground to avoid run off and puddling. all of this to be accomplished on Program A. Program B & C are for flower beds and shrub beds respectively.

So my controller arrives, I break out the manual and begin programming. I get as far as set station watering time and realize I do not believe this is going to work. There does not seem to be anyway to program different lengths of time for different start times.

Am I doing something wrong or did I buy the wrong controller?

If I bought the wrong controller I'm kinda stuck as it is being insttalled this weekend. So would this controller work as I would like it to if I did the soak cycles for all 10 mins?

Any and all help appreciated.

Thanks for the confirmation of my conclusion. I guess I should have done more research before buying. Although I would like to be able to do the soak cycle,I doubt that I would have been willing to pay big bucks for a different controller. Pro C seems to be good in all other respects.