Several Zones Seeping During Entire Program
I have a Rainbird ESP-LX 20 with 80 heads on 18 zones. About 6 yrs old and no recent work, except my 2HP water pump was recently changed. I'm the original owner, and hired someone to install it.
When I manually start zone 1, or let my single program a manually start, zones 1, 2, & 4 all seep water together. Therefore all the 18 zones are very weak, because those zones are all staying on seeping water and puddling throughout the program.
The first problem I noticed, was that zone 18 never really shut off and seeped all day. I ran it a few times and it finally shut off.
I unplugged the unit, went back to factory settings, put in date etc and programmed each zone to run ten min's. When I manually started the program, same thing - 3 seeping zones. If I manually start zone 1, zones 2 and 4 join in. If I run zone 3, another comes on with it. Any ideas? I thought my control box may be haywire due to lightning or something.