Troubleshooting: Testing power to a sprinkler valve.

[quinnrasta]

Can you help, my valve box fills up with water after a few days of watering? I have a three tiered lawn and the box is on the second tier. Thanks

[iScaper1]

@quinnrasta

Finding a leak in a valve box is a process of elimination. First, remove the water from the valve box and check if there is a leak while the sprinkler system is off. If there is a leak it will be on the pressure side of the valve. If there are no leaks in the valve box with the system off, next open each valve manually and check for leaks as you open each valve. This will tell you if there is a leak on the zone side of the valve. Let me know what you find. KT

[quinnrasta]

@iScaper1 I rewired all my valves, I had a total of 11. Going through the process of turning the valves on from the control box, only 10 zones popped up my ALL my sprinkler heads. I soon realized that one the zones was not connected and apparently the previous owner had rerouted the sprinklers through another valve. I fixed a crack in the PVC prior and guess "I reconnected the valve to no where" Thank you for your quick response. I am definitely a subscriber!

[iScaper1]

@quinnrasta

One good trick is to take a piece of paper and write down which color on the timer goes to which valve. Ex: Station 1 is red and runs rotors along west fence, station 2 is blue and runs front spray heads. This way you know which station on the timer is running which valve in the yard. This speeds up troubleshooting when needed but only works as long as there hasn't been a splice and color change in the wiring by the previous installer. Thanks for watching.

[quinnrasta]

@iScaper1 I will be doing that this weekend, I pulled out the survey to my property and will be doing a detailed mark up of each sprinkler and zone on my computer, great tip. You have a lot of videos that I will be looking at in the very near future. Thank you very much!!!

[iScaper1]

@quinnrasta

Great idea. That will be a handy reference in the future.