Greetings all,
I have a Hunter irrigation system with 11 zones. I have one zone (#7- gray wire) that has some type of fault in it that keeps erroring out my system. I have 4 zones in the front yard (one box) , and the other 7 in the back yard (2 boxes , one with 5 solenoid the other with 2). The installers only used a 14 wire cable, thus I do not have another wire to test the system. I do have a Master Valve (in a separate box) , which is using one of the wires (yellow) .
I detach the gray wire off the #7 solenoid, and still get an error. I though maybe where the gray wire was spliced with the homerun wire in the front housing could be the problem, and decoupled the splice there, and still get an error. (thus the gray wire is NOT connected at all, but I still get the error/short-- actually disconnected in two spots , at the solenoid and at the first valve box/splice region)
I can plug another zone into the #7 on the controller, and that wire/zone will work.. it's this darn gray wire is the problem, and I can not figure out where the issue is. I checked all 3 housing units to see it the gray wire was cut or rusted , and it seems fine.
I just purchased/installed a new controller (Hunter X2 14 zone) as a just in case, and same problem/error, but with this X2 controller , it actually makes the whole system restart, whereas in the older Hunter Pro-C controller , it just hung on Zone 7 with the ERR.
Any ideas. I've had 2 people look at it, and they both scratched their heads with a "I don't know, must be a short".. smh, I know that. I've been trying to fix this for 2 years now, and nada.
I have a Hunter irrigation system with 11 zones. I have one zone (#7- gray wire) that has some type of fault in it that keeps erroring out my system. I have 4 zones in the front yard (one box) , and the other 7 in the back yard (2 boxes , one with 5 solenoid the other with 2). The installers only used a 14 wire cable, thus I do not have another wire to test the system. I do have a Master Valve (in a separate box) , which is using one of the wires (yellow) .
I detach the gray wire off the #7 solenoid, and still get an error. I though maybe where the gray wire was spliced with the homerun wire in the front housing could be the problem, and decoupled the splice there, and still get an error. (thus the gray wire is NOT connected at all, but I still get the error/short-- actually disconnected in two spots , at the solenoid and at the first valve box/splice region)
I can plug another zone into the #7 on the controller, and that wire/zone will work.. it's this darn gray wire is the problem, and I can not figure out where the issue is. I checked all 3 housing units to see it the gray wire was cut or rusted , and it seems fine.
I just purchased/installed a new controller (Hunter X2 14 zone) as a just in case, and same problem/error, but with this X2 controller , it actually makes the whole system restart, whereas in the older Hunter Pro-C controller , it just hung on Zone 7 with the ERR.
Any ideas. I've had 2 people look at it, and they both scratched their heads with a "I don't know, must be a short".. smh, I know that. I've been trying to fix this for 2 years now, and nada.
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