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Bad Controller?

lschwart

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Tuesday, May 2nd 2006, 3:53am

Bad Controller?

I have a ten year old Orbit Control Star 6 zone controller, never had any problems. Only 4 zones are hooked up. The program that has been set is running inconsistently.

One day all four zones run correctly, the next day zones 1 and 2 run correctly and zones 3 and 4 never turn on. This morning zone 1 runs and zones 2, 3, and 4 never turn on.

Is this behavior being caused by a bad controller or is there something else to check?

RidgeRun05

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Tuesday, May 2nd 2006, 2:13pm

Check your start times, and station run times. Sounds like you may have different start times or multiple programs running. Check if you have more than 1 program, such as A, B, or C. Check to make sure you only have one start time.
Tony Posey
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lschwart

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Thursday, May 4th 2006, 5:54am

Thanks for the response. All the programming settings did check out OK. I reprogrammed everything from scratch anyway; let's see what happens.

kevin burklund

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Wednesday, May 10th 2006, 12:18pm

I have a Nelson controller installed in 1999. Last year it was running during the day, in addition to the program I had it set for at night. Can you tell me if I set it to program B, does it run both A and B? If C, then all three? If this is the case, is it designed to set the front yard on program A and the back yard on program B, so you don't have to run your sprinklers for 4 hours in a row?

Or do I just have a bad controller?
Kevin B
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