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Wednesday, April 20th 2011, 12:11pm

by Wet_Boots

You have an indexing valve. It got stuck. You unstuck it.

Tuesday, April 19th 2011, 12:48pm

by lforstuff (Guest)

I will try to take a picture and post it once my internet comes back up. Someone cut the phone cable in the neighborhood. :)
I took a closer look at that thing and I noticed that after the water goes thru the valve it enters something pretty big, round and green (told you I am am clueless :)). I noticed 4 screws holding a cap in place on top of it so i decided to take the cap of. After taking it off I noticed a shaft that could be turned by hand. I turned it by hand and messed with it for a few minutes realizing that most likely that is the thing that by turning around opens and closes the zones. After putting the cap back on the wrong way on the first try, I managed the second time around to put it back on the right way. :) Then I turned the the sprinkler on to manual and just one zone came on. Then I turned it off then back on and a different zone came on. Turned it of again and back again and the third zone came on. So it looks like it is working OK for now. It must have gotten stuck.

Thank you for taking you time and helping out.

Tuesday, April 19th 2011, 12:45pm

by lforstuff (Guest)

Richdel valve (possibly a 205) - All zones turn on at the same time

Quoted from "2theweb4now"

Hi,

I am new to all this so most likely I have no clue what I am talking about. :)

I have a sprinkler systems with three zones that has worked OK since I moved into this house. The zones were turning on one at a time and shutting off correctly. I have a timer mechanism with a big round orange disk and an a switch with three positions:
Auto
Off
Manual
The problem is that in both manual and auto all three zones turn on at the same time. From the research I've done it seems that the valve is a Richdel 205 (looks like an Irritrol 205). Any idea what is wrong with this thing?

Any help is much appreciated!

Thank you!

Sunday, April 17th 2011, 9:54am

by Wet_Boots

Make sure the valves aren't still manually opened from last year's winterizing.

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Take photos of the controller, and post them, so we know what you have.

Saturday, April 16th 2011, 7:01pm

by Mitchgo

Sounds like a imperial valet controller- old school

Could be a number of issues.. A step by step electrical diagnosis really should be done to properly identify.

3 bigger things that come to mind is the system has a master valve and the 3 zones are manually turned on/ stuck on. Or The controller is wired incorrectly or the controller has gone bad and now is sending power to all 3 zones

Saturday, April 16th 2011, 5:40pm

by 2theweb4now

Richdel valve (possibly a 205) - All zones turn on at the same time

Hi,

I am new to all this so most likely I have no clue what I am talking about. :)

I have a sprinkler systems with three zones that has worked OK since I moved into this house. The zones were turning on one at a time and shutting off correctly. I have a timer mechanism with a big round orange disk and an a switch with three positions:
Auto
Off
Manual
The problem is that in both manual and auto all three zones turn on at the same time. From the research I've done it seems that the valve is a Richdel 205 (looks like an Irritrol 205). Any idea what is wrong with this thing?

Any help is much appreciated!

Thank you!