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I have the HUNTER SRC 600 600i SPRINKLER TIMER and it started to act up. It powers up fine and i can set the date time and each zone properly. However when the timer goes off and its time to run a zone it runs for like 1/2 second and the zone shuts off and no more zones run. I also try to manually start a zone and nothing happens. Once in a while it will start up for 1/2 second and then shut off. Once it flashed "No" on the screen. Also i noticed my rain gauge was all rusted and looked bad so i disconntected the two wires to the rain gauge is that ok? Do i need to cross the wires where the rain gauge when or will this short out the system. Also for just a test i jumped the power cable directly to zone 1 and it run fine. Any help???