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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
My house is five years old and the irrigation system is supposed to have a feature where it doesn't turn on if there has been rain. The problem is that we can get a downpour and the system comes on shortly afterward.
I know that there is a sensor on the side of the house and it's has a little wafer thing that swells up when it rains and prevents the system from turning on.
Does anyone know how to fix this or do I have to call someone to service it?
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Your answer is to buy a WIFI irrigation controller. A Hunter 6 zone will cost about $170 on Amazon, the 12 zone are another $75 or so. This might less than a service call and will fix the problem once and for all.
The Hunter irrigation controllers use local weather stations to monitor rain fall.
Below is a picture of my TV irrigator. Every place you see the slash through it means it didn't irrigate due to rainfall. I kick it on every day on two tiny zones for 2 minutes to juice some flowers. Once a week I do a big water for everything else.
You can also control it from anywhere in the world and it will alert you if it thinks one of your valves is failing.
It takes about 15 minutes to install. If you have a screw driver, you can do it yourself. I have one at my NJ home as well.
