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Friday, June 20th 2014, 3:08pm

by irrigirl (Guest)

common

Also could still be an issue with your common wire.... Even though you're getting power to the board and each valve does not mean the circuit is full.

Friday, June 20th 2014, 3:05pm

by irrigirl (Guest)

Whats the name or model number of your controller?
How many zones do you have?
And have you checked for resistance? Let us know if you get results for this!
1. Set your meter to ohms
2. Range to 200
3. Remove common wire
4. Hold tip of black probe to common wire
5. Touch red probe to each station
on circuit board
0-6 Short Circuit=Bad solenoid/Solenoid wire
6-12 Slow burn=Loose wire
12-60 Good solenoid
60-200 Partial Open=Corroded wire connection
200+ =Wire Break

Tuesday, June 3rd 2014, 10:03pm

by hi.todd

rain sensor

Tuesday, June 3rd 2014, 8:35pm

by uncle_dave

Have power & Water BUT no zones will work

I went to turn my sprinklers on and noticed my back flow leaking slightly. I put a rebuild kit in it. When I hit run on the controller, nothing, not 1 zone will turn on. I checked to make sure i had power at the controller, i did 27 volts coming in from transformer and 27 volts going to each zone. I also have 25 volts at the last zone's valve in the series. That tells me I am getting power from the controller to each valve. My common wire can't be broke if i have voltage at the last valve. I can turn the valve on manually and the sprinklers would come on with great pressure. So I have power to the valve, water to the valve, but when i go to run that zone nothing. I changed the valve out thinking the valve was bad, still nothing. I changed out the controller, still nothing. I am perplexed!!!

So i have power, water, new valve, and controller is working properly. Why won't it turn on?!?!?!?!?!

Thanks for any help, I need it and so does my lawn.