Long post, sorry. But I would appreciate any help.
Okay, I don't really do irrigation because there isn't a huge demand around here for it (in the past). But the companies that do it are just horrible.
So anyway, I got a call from a commercial location that still hasn't had their system turned on yet! It has been rescheduled 3 times now. Flowers are of course dying. Irrigation guy said he couldn't come out until next Thursday. Geeze.
Manager said the whole system was gone over last year and worked fine. But a semi ran over a corner area and busted the lines. No big deal.
I fixed the entire corner today, 1.5" PVC - 1" PVC, cake walk.
I start checking to see what zones work properly and turn on the control valves as I go. I set the controller to run just one station and it would come on. I'd go look, then turn the underground valve on for the next location.
Well, doing this made the pressure drop in the one prior and the new one started right up, even though I didn't select it to run yet. This kept happening until most of the zones were on.....all losing more pressure as I went because every one of them was running at the same time......even though I still was only checking one zone with the controller.
Turned the controller to OFF, zones kept running. A couple of the zones did shut off okay (like #2 and #3).
I had to shut off the water supply to stop them from running, even though at that point they were just spitting up water about 2'.
Model is the Rainbird ESP 16-LX Plus. There are 15 zones. Truck ran over zone 4, but the control valve seemed okay.
Any ideas?
Okay, I don't really do irrigation because there isn't a huge demand around here for it (in the past). But the companies that do it are just horrible.
So anyway, I got a call from a commercial location that still hasn't had their system turned on yet! It has been rescheduled 3 times now. Flowers are of course dying. Irrigation guy said he couldn't come out until next Thursday. Geeze.
Manager said the whole system was gone over last year and worked fine. But a semi ran over a corner area and busted the lines. No big deal.
I fixed the entire corner today, 1.5" PVC - 1" PVC, cake walk.
I start checking to see what zones work properly and turn on the control valves as I go. I set the controller to run just one station and it would come on. I'd go look, then turn the underground valve on for the next location.
Well, doing this made the pressure drop in the one prior and the new one started right up, even though I didn't select it to run yet. This kept happening until most of the zones were on.....all losing more pressure as I went because every one of them was running at the same time......even though I still was only checking one zone with the controller.
Turned the controller to OFF, zones kept running. A couple of the zones did shut off okay (like #2 and #3).
I had to shut off the water supply to stop them from running, even though at that point they were just spitting up water about 2'.
Model is the Rainbird ESP 16-LX Plus. There are 15 zones. Truck ran over zone 4, but the control valve seemed okay.
Any ideas?
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