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Old 02-28-2022, 08:02 PM
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Greetings villagers, I have a problem that, hopefully, someone can clue me in about. Our yard sprinkler system seems to have a mind of its own. It is set to go on at 4, 4:30 and 4:45 am, and does so. The problem is, once it has cycled through areas 1,2 and 3, it starts over again! Only program A is shown to be working (not B or C). We have tried all we can think to do, other than a complete reset, to no avail. Also, because the system insists on cycling twice, we decreased the run time to 5 min. The problem is, the system automagically changed the running time (to 14 min) in each area. Could this have been a lack of rain thing, and the system automatically compensates by increasing run time? Anyway, the double cycling is the irritating (and costly) problem, and any help in correcting this would be appreciated.

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Here is the official answer from the troubleshooting section of the Hunter manual:

Q: The controller repeats itself or continuously waters, even when it should not be on (cycling repeatedly).
A: Too many start times (Programming Error). Only one start time per active program is required.