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Sascol

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Monday, May 3rd 2010, 8:27am

Rain Bird ESP8 - Goes on Randomly

I have my timer set to go on once a week (Saturday at 5am). I happened to be home last Friday and at about 11:30am I noticed the system came one. The timer and the clock were set appropriately. I asked one of my neighbors who happened to be home if she had noticed my system coming on during the week and she said it had noticed it a few times. Any idea why the system would just come on randomly? I checked all of my settings and I could not find anything that would lead to this. Thanks in advance.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Sascol" (May 3rd 2010, 8:44am)

Wet_Boots

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Monday, May 3rd 2010, 12:08pm

Reboot the controller and program it from scratch. User error is the overwhelming choice for watering cycles occurring at the wrong times.

Sascol

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Monday, May 3rd 2010, 1:17pm

Quoted from "Wet_Boots"

Reboot the controller and program it from scratch. User error is the overwhelming choice for watering cycles occurring at the wrong times.
Reboot as in unplug - clear it out and start over?

mrfixit

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Monday, May 3rd 2010, 1:55pm

You probably have a second start time programmed.

To reset the controller unplug it and take out the back up battery. Let it sit for 5 minutes. Replace n reprogram.

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