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I purchased a used home in 2016 and I have four zones. Recently we had a Silver Maple cut down, the stump grinder, and front lawn replaced. I was given instructions to water the new sod in zones 1 and 2 for 15-20 minutes, three times a day, but I also have two more zones for the backyard of which I have Rain Bird 5000’s rotor 4” pop-upsprinklers; two of which blew out their nozzles (I need to repair) and shoot powerful streams of water up and over my fences and into the neighbor’s backyard. My question is about the ‘A’ and ‘B’ programs on the ESP-6TM. I have zones 1 and 2 (front yards) set to water 20 minutes at 5 AM, 3 PM and at 6:30 PM on Program ‘A’, Monday through Sunday, and I have zones 3 and 4 in the backyard set to water for 15 minutes at 7:30 AM, Monday through Sunday. Are the two programs designed to switch automatically when there scheduled time(s) start?

I stayed up this morning and the zones 1 and 2 did start. I set my alarm for 7:28 AM to check on the backyard zones, which I have a view from my bedroom, and noticed the watering did not start. Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong or what did I do wrong, or do the ‘A’ and ‘B’ programs have to be manually switched? Controller is set to “Custom” and “Auto”.

I do not want to over-water my backyard or run the rotors in the backyard too long until I can repair them. I read the manual and it was not clear enough, or I did not understand the information about the two programs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I can run every zone manually.