Just thought I’d give you Yankees a laugh. DBY’s who needs em, run out of wire nuts? Just bury it. No white wire, just use red. 1 screw is all you need to hang a clock. Who knows why the mag starter doesn’t work? Bubblers make great spray heads. Deep valves ? Safety first. Anyway enjoy.
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No, just a standard 217. I haven't seen an indexing valve in probably 20 year. Yes these are the kind of thing I find regularly.
It is everywhere. This is a result of shoddy service work over the years. The valve box was originally at the bottom of the hole, I had the guys raise the valve and level the valve box. We have since added dirt leveled it out. While frustrating, most of what we have is sand, so sorting these issues out is usually not that difficult.
Its Florida
Most of these repairs are on 30 year old systems that have been patched over and over. We get almost no down time on the irrigation as we run it all year long. We have good contractors down here , but when it comes to wiring ♂ Most techs don't understand it. I have more than 1 system run completely on Nodes (30-60 zones). Once the wires get F'd up it's almost impossible to fix. And running a new 2-wire is not in the budget. Anyway, always fun to get something back on the clock.
You kind of lost me there. I enjoy what I do and I really love figuring out wiring issues. With the exception of the valve box , there are just things I have come across in the last 2 months. My guys, in general don't care much, good guys, but really don't care. I simply thought a group of professionals would find some humor in these photos. I know most people don't deal with the pump issues that we do down here, but shoddy work is the same anywhere.
And , most of y'all are freezing and in snow. Just kind of a little pick me up for y'all. Your season is coming.
I am not trying to brag ? 24v wiring is the same as 208 or 240v 3-phase. Most of y'all would have this stuff figured out in about 10 min, it all works the same.
ok, now I'm going to brag. Y'all definitely don't have the helpers we do.
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Yes, I definitely have a bit of a sarcastic outlook, it really wasn't meant that way, should have sounded more , frustrated.
Index valves were the rage along the panhandle in the 90's when I lived there. Why? I don't know , except they were cheap, easy to install, no valves/wires. We moved to Atlanta and spent almost 20 years there, coming to central Florida I asked why there weren't any down here. Failure rate and pain to repair were the answers I got. That's all I can tell you.
I have almost zero 2-wire experience. We have 1 community of about 20 houses where the install contractor ran the 2-wire right through the middle of all the backyards. Every few months someone adds a pool and we have to go out and cut and reroute the line. No issues so far.
Cleaned up as best I can and running. Added a master valve and tank because the whole place runs on nodes. With the master valve I can at least control the days that I water, and mainline breaks are limited to the hours the master is on. Not perfect by any means but about the best we can do with nodes.
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Found this today on one of my properties. It’s been on nodes for 7 years or so, clocks are long gone, wires are unfixable at this point. But more than likely a lot of this could have been saved if not for the splices. 2- regular wire nuts and what looks like a telephone wire splice ? Always remember , your splices are more often than not the key to your success.
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I wish I could take the credit that way, but sadly not the case. We had the last 6 heads in this zone with no pressure. The line ran under 3 Live oaks and was pinched somewhere. We capped all but 2 heads and ran drip. Not much else to do without replacing the whole line.
Palm tree roots can be invasive. 30 heads on this zone along a parkway. Roots will crawl in through the heads. Shocking that nobody noticed the zone wasn’t working for the 2 years or so it took to create this kind of problem.
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