The world needs more guys like you- 3 minutes in you hit the whole story- 1 common wire each connected too and the remaining wires go to a colored.........Thanks
Trying to reset the time on my Orbit Watermaster Model No 57606-wt8, and it's unsuccessful. Mine has the same setup, but the dial doesn't "click" in the right settings. The time won't set, but date will. Help!
Turn the dial to start time…..then use the program button to chose which program you want….scroll to midnight using the plus or minus button and the start time for that program will be gone. You can also delete the days of the week, that the program uses. To accomplish the same thing. Hope that helped, be sure to Subscribe to our Channel for more quick tips.✅
@@evks82 I wouldn’t recommend that, because if you ever need to replace the entire valve you might need to gain access to the piping below ground. The concrete makes that very difficult with little to no space to get tools below ground to cut pipes. Hope that answered your questions. Take a minute to Subscribe to our channel it really helps us grow.
Just buy an extra length of wire at your local hardware store and splice it to the existing timer wires. Now raise the timer to what ever height you like. Hope that helped, don’t forget to Subscribe to our Channel for more great tips and videos.👍
The timer is telling you to make sure the wiring is connected correctly for an installed rain sensor. If you have no rain sensor installed, open the panel and locate the sensor switch (top right) and move selector to bypass. Hope that helped you out. Don’t forget to Subscribe to our channel for more great tips and advice.👍
HI Gary the area where I live currently has a extreme water restrictions this year it allows me only to water 1 day per week on Tuesdays I am not sure how to set the sprinkler for just one day a week! If you could let me know I would appreciate it, thanks for your time and consideration
@@garyssprinklerrepair Thank you so much indeed I was having doubts and there is a $5000 usd charge for over watering so I wanted to get it right and with your help it worked! Cheers
With the timer in run mode, push the bottom left button “semi-auto” it will now run the program selected on top left. Hope that answered your question. Take a minute to Subscribe to our channel for more great tips.✌️
The colors on the timer will usually dictate the (colored wires color) normally the common is a white color. One wire from a valve goes to the white and the other wire goes to a colored wire. Let me know if you still need help. Don’t forget to Subscribe to my Channel for more great content.😁
This is really helpful. Does it matter which wire you are taking from the sprinkler solenoid to the common wire from each? For example, should I use the wire closest to the "off" word for each of the sprinkler solenoids and then have those wires going to the common, or does it not really matter which wire is running to the common and which is running to a color wire?
There is no polarity for the solenoid wires, either one can go to the colored wire. As a rule I always use the left wire to go to common and the right wire to go to the colored wire. Just a habit, but it doesn’t matter. Hope that helps, don’t forget to Subscribe to our Channel it really helps us grow.
@@garyssprinklerrepair So much better. Disconnecting all the excess wires and starting from scratch made that way less intimidating. Now to fix the leak coming from my new valve install and the 3/4 in coupling I had screwed in.
Turn the water off, go by another valve. Home Depot and Lowes sell “Lawn Genie” it’s the same valve as Irritrol. Take the top off the new valve remove the spring and diaphragm, swap them with the old parts. Put the top back on, slowly turn the water back on. Hope that helps, be sure to Subscribe to our Channel for more great tips.
Gary, I have an outdoor 600 sst. I need to reset it and start from scratch. I followed the directions in Manual, but it will not reset. Can you advise?
Yes, on the newer one you’re right. On the older version it clearly stated each zone needs to have a start time that follows the start time and added run time that came before it. So as to not overlap. Guess more than a few struggled with the concept hence the updated version.
i have an abnormal issue with my rainbird valve and hoping it's something easy instead of having to replace the entire valve i open the valve solenoid lever manually, no water i loosen the blowoff valve, water spits out until retightened i loosen the solenoid a lot (unscrewing it), water leaks until retightened pressure valve is almost fully loosened but sprinkler still doesn't turn on could there be a clog or just the valve itself is bad?
@@rawrtravisrawr if you remove the top of the valve. (Water off obviously) Then remove the diaphragm, you will notice the plastic yellow or white pieces are missing. Replace the diaphragm, reassemble, turn the water back on. Should be problem solved. Let me know if you need more help, and don’t forget to Subscribe to our Channel it helps us out too.✌️
@@garyssprinklerrepair thank you! tried taking it off and putting back on with no luck but just ordered a new piece so i'll get that replaced :) thank you! hopefully thats the fix haha
@@garyssprinklerrepair hey so just replaced the diaphram and the solenoid and still no luck on that sprinkler head :\ any other ideas or should i just replace the entire valve?
@@rawrtravisrawr typically we always replace the valve. The quick fix is to save time and usually does the trick for most homeowners fixes. Is your valve a Rainbird? Have you fixed or had someone else fix a broken lawn pvc pipe on that lawn?
@@garyssprinklerrepair yes its a rainbird :) but we had a sprinkler guy come out maybe about a year ago, not sure what exactly he did but ran us $200 so trying to fix it myself instead of another pricey visit, this valve in question does look newer then the others (new pvc fittings/glue and much cleaner then the other 2 near it) i wasn't home for it but the bill said he found and fixed a broken pipe in the area, unsure if it was part of this one i believe it stopped working recently as i just barely noticed the section of grass dieing in the past few weeks could it be another broken pipe underneath? i hear no water movement through the valve when i turn on the valve versus the other ones
Not sure if I completely understand the question. If the valve wire colors are let’s say (left to right) red, orange, blue thy might be blue, red, orange on the timer. You could always change them on the timer to be red, orange, blue then you know they correspond to the order of the valves. Hope that helped
@@panchovilla7235 don’t worry my son and his friend thought they were geniuses when they were little. So, they were going to take a genius test online to prove it. I looked at them and said, spell genius? They said, hold on let me look that up. I told them they can skip the genius test. 😂 Sprinkler
Thank you for this video. Not only did you save me from having to cut off all my valves, you made some comments about debris in the system that helped me understand why my system needed some maintenance in the first place.
Turn the switch to current date time. Hour is flashing. Press the arrow button. It skips over both minutes and am/pm, and instead a calendar icon below the hour starts flashing. No amount of arrow pressing gets the minutes or am/pm to start flashing.
THANKS Gary! 👍 We have built-in water spigots by all yard shrubs/trees here in HOT Nevada and the home we bought has this old model. Your video helped me sort out the issues.
Unplug the timer and plug a drill or blow dryer (ohm meter) into the outlet. That way you’ll know if you have actual power there. The battery will create a display but doesn’t have the power to run the zones. Hope that helps, be sure to take a minute to Subscribe to our Channel for more info.
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I've got this controller and have 3 Stations set up. All of a sudden station 3 won't run. The other 2 run fine. The display and everything seems fine. I've tried it through Semi-Auto and Manual What would should I look for to see what might be wrong? Thanks!
Double check you’ve programmed a run time for zone 3 in the correct program. If that doesn’t work it’s either a wire issue or solenoid issue. Let me know if you need more help, don’t forget to Subscribe and tap notifications so you’ll know I answered you.
@@bbqjones cool, double check all the wire nuts are tight. Irritrol valves had an issue a few years ago with the wires shorting at the top of the solenoids. (Lawn Genie) homeowner version made by the same Co.
Thank you so much for this video! After watching it it allowed me to figure out how to add back two stations on schedule A that i accidentally deleted/removed (they didnt have the A under them and i couldnt figure it out for life of me!
@@allenhumphrey6970 turn the dial to start time, next push the right arrow it should show 2-A with no start time…add your desired start time using the up arrow and push enter. Return the dial to Auto…..done. Don’t forget to Subscribe to our Channel it helps us a lot.👍
