How To Test Your Rain Sensor

If your controller is showing a message indicating that the sensor is active even thought it has not rained or if the sensor is not shutting down the irrigat.

How to test your rain sensor.

Things needed operator s manual for your irrigation system. You can edit this value so that the rain value can be preset to a known value. No matter the type of rain sensor you choose all rain sensors offer many advantages over not having one attached to your automatic sprinkler system. A new history event titled rain sensor activated should appear.

Typically it will be located on the roofline or atop a fence. Hold down the test spindle on the rain sensor. The three options with buttons may require your input. Check to make sure that the top of the sensor is not covered by eaves treetops or other obstructions that keep rain from reaching the sensor.

A new activity should be logged as rain sensor deactivated. Refresh the history feed pull to refresh on android and ios. The other options show test results. Release the test spindle on the rain sensor.

Some of the benefits both immediate and long term include. Refresh your device s history feed again. Saving money whether you pay for city water or spend electricity running a pump the money you save over. Check to make sure that the jumper tab also called a jumper wire was removed when the rain sensor was hooked up to the control panel.

Locate the rain sensor for your irrigation system. Turn on the time clock for the zone nearest the sensor. Benefits of a rain sensor. The sensor detects the light reflected back internally by the windshield glass so if there were more raindrops on the windshield the less light would be reflected back to the sensor.