Not watering, but unit say's it is.

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Sean Gnant

July 14, 2018 20:48

I have a 16 zone unit and the app shows that it is watering, i.e. counting down for each zone, but the heads are not activating.  What is weird is that I can activate any zone (hit the play button) from my phone and that zones sprinklers will go off.    So I know it's not the control wires or solenoids.   I have the latest updates and rebooted the unit several times.  Any ideas are greatly appreciated because I am stumped.

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  RainMachine Nicholas July 16, 2018 10:23

  Hi Sean,

  Is this something that happens for automatically scheduled programs (meaning not a manual run) ?

  Can you try from the Web UI ?

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  Sean Gnant July 22, 2018 20:29

  Thanks Nicholas for your suggestions.

  Just to follow up, and maybe help someone down the road,

  The problem:

  Zone 1 (the first programmed zone) would trigger via automation and no zones would water after that.  Although I could control all the zones individually via my app.  So I figured my wiring and solenoids were fine.  But that was not the case.  Eventually Zone 2 stopped working altogether. The failing solenoid cascaded to the rest of the programed zones.   I replaced the solenoid on that circuit and now everything is working fine. 

  Since replacement, I have a slight delay now between zones.  This should isolate the problem if it happens again.  Which it will. Solenoids always go bad.

  I do have to say I absolutely love this controller.  Giving the  garden a little extra water from your app when you are out of town is awesome.

   

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  RainMachine Nicholas July 23, 2018 08:26

  Thank you for getting back to us with your solution, this is very helpful !

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