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Tuesday, January 24th 2012, 1:51pm
If your old Hunter SRC controller won't show the year 2012, it doesn't mean end times have arrived. What it does mean is that it is one of the older versions that failed to have an extended calendar database. Since these clocks only have the years 1996-2011 in the database, you have to pick a year where the days of the month line up properly with the days of the week. What makes this difficult is leap years, but for those people in northern climates, you can put off worrying about this until the month of March or April, at which time you set the year to 2001, which keeps you in good stead for the next three years.I can't tell from here but it sounds fishy to me. Try resetting the controller to the factory settings and reprogram it. It should work.
Here is a short list of settings for the SRC. The left-hand number is the actual year. The right-hand number is the year you set the clock for
2012 - 2001
2013 - 2002
2014 - 2003
2015 - 2009
2016 - 2005
2017 - 2006
2018 - 2007
So, if you change the settings in March, or later, you only have to do this three times in the next seven years (2012, 2015, 2016)
Thursday, April 26th 2012, 7:44am
Well, thanks, this was a lifesaver. Trying to figure out why my sprinkler watered on the wrong day today. We've had alot of rain in N. Texas this spring, so just now putting it on for the season to auto, rather than a manual run here and there. People who say on other forums that the year doesn't matter on days of week watering are WRONG, because the year is the only way the system knows what day of the week it is. Mine thinks today is W because I'm forever stuck in 2011. So your handy chart is a lifesaver. BUT, this controller aggravates me for other reasons as well, like when I'm trying to run a station manually (like 7 or 
, I set the time, and it resets to station 1 when I set it back to run! I've followed the directions to a "T" and yet 90% of the time it does this to me. The only workaround I've found is to run "all stations manually" and then set 1-6 for 0 and let 7 or 8 or whatever I"m testing cycle thru. VERY TIME CONSUMING, esp when I have a repair tech waitinng for me to turn on the right station. Grrrr Anyone know the fix to this? Or, maybe, how much a replacement unit will cost? Thanks!!
, I set the time, and it resets to station 1 when I set it back to run! I've followed the directions to a "T" and yet 90% of the time it does this to me. The only workaround I've found is to run "all stations manually" and then set 1-6 for 0 and let 7 or 8 or whatever I"m testing cycle thru. VERY TIME CONSUMING, esp when I have a repair tech waitinng for me to turn on the right station. Grrrr Anyone know the fix to this? Or, maybe, how much a replacement unit will cost? Thanks!! 
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