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I'm back again! Actually I have been busy with other things, but since being on here last I found the station 7, 8 and 9 valve boxes! I used a copper grounding rod I had and figured the boxes had to be near the stations they control and after about 20 minutes of dropping the rod into the...

Direct bury outdoor wire is what I am thinking.

There are 10 or 12 different colored wires in insulation, probably 1/4" in diameter and it goes from the controller to the valve boxes in numerical and color code order, so the pink wire is in every box until it reaches its valve, #9. The wiring stops at the last two valve boxes I found a...

If I don't get any voltage at the valve, I will back trace it to prior valve boxes inline and test it at each point. All the station wires are in the same sleeve, so it could be possible of a bad connection in a valve box. Since it is only one dead valve I'm leaning towards a bad solenoid.

I did the manual test last evening on the 3 valves and they all open, the number 9 station is as I thought, the narrow driveway side, plus along the fence at the end of the driveway by the house, about 9 heads total. I just need to test it now and find out why it doesn't come on with the...

After trying everything but renting the line tone generator, I actually got lucky using a 4 foot copper grounding rod, probing the backyard where common sense would say the valve box should be, near the stations they control. I found two valve boxes side by side on the east side of my backyard...

Thank you for the reply! I will definitely check into this device. There are some places on this side of the Metroplex I can call on. I don't see any reason to not think I don't have a 9th station since it is wired to the controller, if not, I see no reason to connect the wire. I have also...

Hello everyone, I recently purchased a home with a sprinkler system, builder installed in 2006. I had a couple of minor repairs to do with bad heads and the like. My question is, I have 9 zones wired in the Rainbird ESP Modular controller, but only 8 operate, being there are 9 wired, should I...