Water Flowing out Vacuum Breaker

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Thursday, May 5th 2011, 8:41am

Water Flowing out Vacuum Breaker

I started up my sprinkler system this spring and all of the water is flowing out of the Atmospheric Vacuum Breaker (not the sprinklers). Is my AVB defective or do I have other problems? If the AVB is the problem is this something I can replace myself?

Thanks.

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Wet_Boots

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Thursday, May 5th 2011, 7:25pm

AVB is a phony baloney imitation of a pressure vacuum breaker - invest in the real thing.

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