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QUESTION: I have a kwick-click rain sensor hooked to my 6 zone Hardie sprinkler system.  Periodically it will not let me manually water, then in a day or two (when it's not my permitted watering day) it will work.  I bought a Rain Bird control box and just moved over one zone and it is still not working so I don't think the Hardie control box is the problem.  The rain sensor is outside and is was going to simply bypass it, however it has three individual wires going into the bottom of it?  (There was a new Orbital sensor and the store and it only had two wires, which makes sense to me).  The connection to the common must be underground somewhere (possibly under a sidewalk!) because I can't find it.  Any ideas on how to bypass the 3-wire sensor?  All three wires are blue so I have no idea what each one might be.

ANSWER: Hi Tate,

Some Hardie controllers has an slide SW that allows you to bypass the rain sensor, it is located inside the box at the upper right. If yours doesn't have it, the wires from the rain sensor are interrupting the common wire ( the white one)  so simply make a jump  between the white wire and the C  or common port.
Regards
Guillermo

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Rain sensor   QUESTION: Thanks.  The box doesn't have a slide switch.  Per my original question, my real issue is the wires on the rain sensor (picture attached).  There are 3 of them and they are all blue.  Two have writing on them and one does not.  I can not get to the point where these connect to the common.  My question is how do I bypass correctly with 3 wires?  Should I just cut and connect all 3 together to bypass, or perhaps just 2 of the 3?

Answer
Hi Tate,

These rain sensor has 3 blue wires, but a little bit lower it connects to 3 wires one blue, one red and one black. Only the red and black are used and connected to the common. If you can identify the red and black put it together, if not simply put the 3 together, it will not cause any harm and will week the circuit closed.

Regards
Guillermo