Putting Your Mind To It

I knew I would figure it out sooner or later. I guess shorter days, frost and laying off the seasonal staff gives me the time to really expand on the blog. As you may have noticed I posted the irrigation as-builts of the first hole for you to view.
This is the new system on paper. You can click on it for a closer look.
Let me explain what you are viewing in a nutshell.
The "red line" signifies the mainline and the red symbols mark each lateral valve. The black lines identify the 2" lateral lines from the mainline. The full or part circles mark each sprinkler head. The part circles are adjustable heads located on the perimeter of the property or around the putting surfaces.
Each station or sprinkler head has two sets of numbers associated with them. The first set of numbers represents the decoder "address" (ex. 38522) for that station. For example, a 6 station decoder can operate up to 6 different irrigation heads. There is a five digit address for each station and that is how the central computer communicates with the sprinkler head.
The second set of numbers at each head represents that sprinkler head's "name". For example 1F-20 (1st hole fairway, station #20) which represents that valve-in head in the Rainbird computer programing. This is Rainbird's way of simplifying the process for irrigation managers to locate and name each station, instead of remembering a 5 digit number. There are 7 categories for naming irrigation heads. The seven categories for our system are greens, tees, fairways, approaches, greens surrounds, rough and miscellaneous.
By this time next year, Justin, Tony and I will have memorized about 80% of the "names" for all of the irrigation heads on the property. It just comes with the job.