Hi,
to give you a background, I have a hunter system, 12 zones, well water . The system is fed with a wilkins vacuum pressure breaker 720.
The system use to work perfect. I had it off for 2 season's for some lawn issues but had the water blown out right before. I tried to start her up yesterday and none of the zones are firing up. A few heads kick on but only shoot water about 2 ft or so. Some heads don't even budge. The vpb is making a rushing water sound, which sounds normal when the system is working, but continues making it even when the controller is unplugged. It turns off when i manually shut off the valve that is attached to the vpb. Water is also leaking from the bonnet, more then it used to at a constant rate. When i use a screw driver to turn the cock testers, water shoots out, which i think is normal. Before the vpb, i'm getting a reading of 60lbs of pressure.
In addition, I called my sprinkler guy which will come out on saturday. On the phone, he thought the valves dried up but even if i manually turn them, water still does not come out of the heads. Does it sound like my wilkins vacuum pressure breaker is shot? If so, would I completely lose pressure to the entire system?
thanks
to give you a background, I have a hunter system, 12 zones, well water . The system is fed with a wilkins vacuum pressure breaker 720.
The system use to work perfect. I had it off for 2 season's for some lawn issues but had the water blown out right before. I tried to start her up yesterday and none of the zones are firing up. A few heads kick on but only shoot water about 2 ft or so. Some heads don't even budge. The vpb is making a rushing water sound, which sounds normal when the system is working, but continues making it even when the controller is unplugged. It turns off when i manually shut off the valve that is attached to the vpb. Water is also leaking from the bonnet, more then it used to at a constant rate. When i use a screw driver to turn the cock testers, water shoots out, which i think is normal. Before the vpb, i'm getting a reading of 60lbs of pressure.
In addition, I called my sprinkler guy which will come out on saturday. On the phone, he thought the valves dried up but even if i manually turn them, water still does not come out of the heads. Does it sound like my wilkins vacuum pressure breaker is shot? If so, would I completely lose pressure to the entire system?
thanks