zone not working
before you start digging there is a test to see if your wires are shorting out or grounding out.
get you ohm meter and set it to 10k or 200k what ever your meter has,
get a separate wire, enough to reach your grass, strip the insulation off about 4" stick it in the ground as deep as you can.
get the other side and strip it about 1/2" take that end to the controller
then take the wires to the zone that are giving you problems off of the controller, the zone wire and the common wire ( the white wire).
put the black lead from your meter to the wire that you stuck in the ground.
take the red lead from your meter and stick it on the zone wire.
if you read any resistance at all you have a earth ground fault. this means your wire has a nick in it and its touching earth.
now repeat these steps for the white wire as well, remember you testing two wires the zone and the common wires to the earth.
now to check for a short
take all the wires off of the clock
touch all the wires one at a time to each other with your meter.
example
white to red white to blue white to green
red to to blue red to green red to brown
work your way thru all the wires if you know what I mean. if you get a audible tone or you get an OL with some noise you have a short
This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "trouble shooter" (Nov 4th 2013, 9:18pm)