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Sunday, August 15th 2010, 9:15pm
by etm1109 (Guest)
Help! That Being Said .... 4 Valves, 4 Wires....What Gives...?
I have a system that is probably 30 years old.
A lawn accident ( well it was no accident, grass grew to high, we wacker decimated wires to valves. )
So there are 4 Valves. A - B - C - D
Rainbird. The valves are 2 rainbirds, and some brand I can't recognize ( the writing is worn off ).
2 have screw in solenoids, 2 have what looks like a black hexagon cap attached to a piece of plastic.
Originally one solenoid had short leads, so whoever wire this used a wire run of the same kind of wire used from the control box to the valves, some other wires. IT was a mess.
So I simply got another solenoid with longer wires. I removed the auxilary wiring and wired everything like so.
A - B - C - D ( 1 wire ) - to white
A - B - C - D other wires to the 4 wires that I identified on the controller.
One wire when I connected sparked ( ouch...) But that is the only one that works. And this valve keeps running even with all wires disconnected.
The B valve acting on it's own. The D valve will come on from the panel when I put it in manual. The other two valves
don't work at all.
So what am I missing here? This can't be that hard. Any advice on troubleshooting.
I'd call my local priest for an exorcism, but I'm not sure how he would respond.
Thanks.
A lawn accident ( well it was no accident, grass grew to high, we wacker decimated wires to valves. )
So there are 4 Valves. A - B - C - D
Rainbird. The valves are 2 rainbirds, and some brand I can't recognize ( the writing is worn off ).
2 have screw in solenoids, 2 have what looks like a black hexagon cap attached to a piece of plastic.
Originally one solenoid had short leads, so whoever wire this used a wire run of the same kind of wire used from the control box to the valves, some other wires. IT was a mess.
So I simply got another solenoid with longer wires. I removed the auxilary wiring and wired everything like so.
A - B - C - D ( 1 wire ) - to white
A - B - C - D other wires to the 4 wires that I identified on the controller.
One wire when I connected sparked ( ouch...) But that is the only one that works. And this valve keeps running even with all wires disconnected.
The B valve acting on it's own. The D valve will come on from the panel when I put it in manual. The other two valves
don't work at all.
So what am I missing here? This can't be that hard. Any advice on troubleshooting.
I'd call my local priest for an exorcism, but I'm not sure how he would respond.
Thanks.