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Hello guys,

I have a hunter sprinkler system and am facing a problem with the startup. Here is what I did
- Opened the main valve from the basement.
- Opened the valve at my backyard near the sprinkler system.
- Opened the Yellow lever and make that parallel to the pipe.
At this step, water started coming from all the heads of all the zones but with little pressure. Till this time, I didn't switched on the controller.
-Then I switched on the controller. Water was still coming from all heads.
-I assume, I had to close the zone valves. I tried to close the valves but water was still coming when I tried manual operation from controller.

I am not sure where I am wrong.
May be, I am not closing the zone valves properly.
May be, I am missing something.

Please help. Attached are the pictures for quick reference.

-ua
 

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If water was coming out of all of the heads then all of the zone valves are open. Close the zone valves from the top handles (solinoids) as well as the small diamond shaped bleed ports. Do not close the solinoids very tight, firm is useally good enough. Most of the time when blowing out these type of valves, you just have to open the bleed ports to activate the valve. Sometimes they are left open for the winter. If you have trouble with turning them, you might use a screwdriver to vlose them, but be gentle.

This problem has nothing to do with your timer (clock).

Mick
 
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Thanks Mick for prompt reply.

I will try it tomorrow and post back the outcome.

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Mick, it worked perfectly.
I didn't even required to use screw driver.

Many Thanks for your help.
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