Gutter Drain off Spouts

QuestionMy husband and I bought our first home 2yrs ago and have recently got a dog. The dog keeps chewing our plastic gutter drain off spouts so when it rains the water stands on our foundation. Our neighbors have

orbit tripot sprickler head

QuestionHow do I adjust the above Sprinkler Head. I am using this in an indoor arena and would like to not spray the walls. Thanks Kurt AnswerI cant tell from your description which exact type of

different ways for wiring valves

Questionhow many ways are their to wire valves? from the vlaves to the controller AnswerOne common way and one not so common way. One of the wires from each valve is connected to a common wire usually the white w

HARDIE TOTAL CONTROL 15 STATION TIMER OUTDOOR

QuestionI went to check on this today and the message across the screen says short. Does this mean the unit has a short? I cannot get this to work. AnswerIt is more likely that there is a short in the

Sprinklers are making Huge sound

Questionhi Matt, We have a Irritrol irrigation system for our lawn and which is scheudled to run every day. However from the last 4 weeks we are hearing a huge noise before the sprinklers starts. Since there is a

Sprinkler system not functioning properly

QuestionQUESTION: Good afternoon! I moved into my house this past month and it had a system already installed, the timer is a hydrotek 2120 and the valve is a hydrotek 6000. I only have four zones and I have replace

Pump and pressure switch

QuestionI will be installing a 1000 gallon tank at ground level at back of my house under a deck. I want to pump the rain water from it around to the front where I have large flower gardens. I want to pump to run on

RainBird R-50 Rotors

QuestionI have about 50 of the R-50 Rotors and the entire system is about 7 years old. Over the years from the 1st year I have replaced about half of the rotors for one reason or another. The most common problem is

pump start relay vs pressure tank valve

QuestionQUESTION: I will be installing a well for mainly a rotor system. I have 10 zones requiring 6 to 10 gallons per minute. My question is can I use just the Hunter pump start relay to turn the pump o

Hunter EC control panel will not update time

QuestionI have a Hunter EC four station indoor control panel that worked perfectly last summer but now wont cooperate. I cant get the time to update no matter what. Ive disconnected the power and reset t

Backflow dripping

QuestionI just installed an irrigation system and now I ran the system a couple of time to finally adjust the heads. I went around to the backflow and noticed that there was a drip coming out of the backflow.

Rainbird rotor sprinklers leaking.

QuestionMy rainbird sprinkler is leaking. I have several others that are not leaking that are located on different zones. The rainbird that is leaking is located in the front of my home and is on a sligh

Solor panel

QuestionQUESTION: Do you have any knowledge on solotrol irrigation systems? the control box is a small solar panel that requires a key to get in and a black key to program the schedule. the black key looks like a ga

How to find irrigation lines

QuestionThanks for volunteering! Were having a fence installed in our yard and the company that installed our irrigation system wants to charge us $100 just to come out and mark the irrigation lines so they are not

Sprinkler System with a well

QuestionI have a sprinkler system that run from a well, or at least that is what I have been told. I have a pump that sits next to a control panel that activates the various zones to water the lawn. Recently,

Sprinkler system will not start

QuestionI have a rain dial residential sprinkler system. It has always worked fine but when I attempted to manually start it today it would not come on. The controller indicates it should be working, b

Hardie control panel problem

QuestionThe control panel on my JH Hardie home irrigation system is flashing random digits and characters. Is there a way to reboot? Or otherwise troubleshoot? The behavior of the panel does not re

Valve works on manual but low flow when using the soleniod

QuestionI have one valve that works great on manual. But when I have it run from the controller it has very low pressure delivered to the sprinklers. I have replaced the solenoid and the diaphragm with n

crack in case of pump

QuestionMy irrigation pump is in my garage and it was very cold this winter. I see a crack in the housing of the pump. The motor runs but the pump wont pick the water up. Can I just replace the pump without th

Hardie RD600

QuestionHow do we hook up the sprinker valve to the RD600 and turn it on manually? AnswerTo wire the valve you simply connect one wire to the COM terminal and the other to a zone number terminal. The instructions