February 12th, 2012 by Dwayne
Yep, that’s right; a way to keep your misting system working when the power goes out. Of course, this only applies to the DIG 5006-IP misting system timer because it needs electricity to control the misting solenoid valves. For a limited time, the report is completely free at mistkits but will soon be a paid [...]
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January 22nd, 2012 by Dwayne
Yes, THAT Monrovia! One of the largest suppliers of plants to nurseries across the country chose a DIG 5006-IP misting timer. How do I know this? Simple, I sold it to them! I was quite shocked when the order was placed to find Monrovia Nursery one of my customers; pleasantly shocked though. So if the [...]
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January 22nd, 2012 by Dwayne
How to get an estimate of how many misting nozzles per zone you can use. To get a good understanding of how many mist nozzles you can use per zone with your mist system, you have to do a little groundwork first. This is not a 100% accurate method, but will work for you to [...]
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July 28th, 2011 by Dwayne
Have you programmed your DIG misting timer and it just won’t start for you? Well, here is a video I did that shows the most common reason.
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May 28th, 2011 by Dwayne
Although the DIG 510 series of misting timers have been discontinued, here is a video to help you program one if this is the timer you own. Although the timer in the video is a DIG 710 series, the programming is exactly the same. The one difference is the 710 uses one 9 volt battery [...]
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April 26th, 2011 by Dwayne
Need help programming your DIG 710 battery operated misting timer? Check out this video.
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March 28th, 2011 by Dwayne
Most misting timers available today are not suitable for misting your cuttings. It gets real interesting when you are looking for a timer for irrigation or misting that runs on batteries. The biggest benefit to a battery operated timer is quite obvious; electricity is not needed. This allows the propagator to have misting beds far [...]
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January 26th, 2011 by Dwayne
Instead of writing a lengthy article about how to program a DIG 5006-IP electric misting timer, I am just going to give you a video. I find videos are great for folks to follow because they can pause and rewind if needed. Enjoy!
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March 15th, 2010 by Dwayne
I absolutely love the DIG 5006-IP timer! Here are my top 6 reasons the DIG misting timer is better than Intermatic type mechanical timers when used to control your misting system: Digital timers include the 24 hour timer, interval timer, and transformer in one small unit. You need to purchase a 24 hour timer, interval [...]
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February 15th, 2010 by Dwayne
The DIG 5006-IP propagation timer is a great misting timer that can be used for much more than controlling your misting system. Many customers have contacted me asking how they can use their misting timer to control other devices. They want to use the built in reliability of the timer to automatically turn on or [...]
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