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East Central, Nebraska | ive been using agsense for a whole bunch of years and have about 20ish units that i pay them for but only have one icon. i have precision links on t-l and commander vps on legacy valleys but mostly field commanders, but as i understand it, on the icons, how you are thinking it works is exactly how the cruise control works. on my field commanders i have some that i still use panel speed and others that i control through the app. the field commanders dont have 'cruise control' per say but i can throw an amount and/or speed in and tell when it will come into the stop. the problem and reason it cruise control on the x never appealed to me is here in nebraska (in my area at least) is we can be controlled on electric wells and it would never work out anyhow. so unless i am not understanding how it works correctly its just a way to insert your intended time of wanting the pass to be over 'if' there were no interruptions. its a feature that seems fairly appealing though likely will never work "in my situation" as it was intended. your sprinkler chart will give you the same info, but where that feature shines is your chart is telling you full pass run time where speed control figures the time based on the pivot location when you insert it. but once again on all agsense/valley units of all different names i will now tell you intended times of 'arrival' so its maybe a feature that isn't that appealing.
on a side note, what's funny and fully applies to this situation is i remember going in the house over the years at night and looking at the logs on the agsense website and figuring out how many degrees the pivot was moving per 20-30 minute reporting cycle to figure out when the pivot would come in and where to set my alarm. they just made a feature to let me tell it when i want it to come in so i didn't have to set my alarm for the middle of the night. pretty cool in my opinion.
i think, as i understand it, its just making the pivot turn in that time frame it is moving, i am nearly certain it will not adjust for being off and it may even disable the feature when the pivot auto-restarts or make a complete mess trying to get back on schedule. i am fairly certain though it sticks to its 'time to make that pass' as intended from the start, regardless of interruptions.
i tried it a couple times and i believe i disabled it or it turned itself off after numerous days of control from the electric company.
so, i think it works how you think it does but many factors outside its control will mess with that timeframe.
i did a quick search and i think we are on the same page but once again, if you have factors outside of your control its a worthless feature.
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Valley AgSense Cruise Control
