Last update:
Valve box | Valve wire color | Zone | Description | Cable? |
---|---|---|---|---|
Front ⬤ | red | 1 | Front parkway and central lawn sprinklers | original |
Front ⬤ | green | 2 | Back north-side lawn, side and front lawn sprinklers | original |
Front ⬤ | blue | 5 | Front north and central big plantings microsprays | original |
South ⬤ | red | 3 | South-side lawn and mailbox parkway sprinklers | new |
South ◯ | yellow | 6 | South-side (side yard) microsprays | new |
Back ◯ | green | 4 | Back lawn under deck sprinklers | new |
Back ⬤ | orange | 8 | Back under-deck and down-hill microsprays | new |
Back ◯ | blue | 9 | Back yard bottom | new |
Back' ◯ | brown | 7 | Back south-side microsprays | new |
⬤ | In working order |
◯ | Electrical problem: bad wiring or solenoid |
—from left-to-right as you face the box standing on the grass or at
the most practical
working point.
Valve box | Valve #1 | Valve #2 | Valve #3 | Cable? | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Front | red | green | blue | original | Original-only in valve box |
South | red | yellow | new | Original still in valve box, but unused | |
Back | |
green | orange | new | Original still in valve box, but unused |
Back' | brown | new | Wired from back box through a connecting conduit |
The Wyze controller offeres only 8 zones, but it was crap, didn't power the zones and we went back to the original, working controller which offered 9 zones and it powered the zones. From controller's point of view. In the old cable(s), the wire color sometimes changed somewhere so the wire color in the valve box couldn't match the color leaving the controller. This was only characteristic of the old cable which we ultimately began to ignore everywhere except the front box.
Zone | Controller color | Description | Valve box | Wire-color change | Cable? | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sprinklers | 1 | red | Front parkway and central lawn sprinklers | Front | original | |
2 | green | Back north-side lawn, side and front lawn sprinklers | Front | original | ||
3 | purple | South-side lawn and mailbox parkway sprinklers | South | yes | new | |
4 | black | Back lawn under deck sprinklers | Back | yes | new | |
Microsprays | 5 | blue | Front north and central big plantings microsprays | Front | original | |
6 | yellow | South-side (side yard) microsprays | South | new | ||
7 | brown | Back south-side microsprays | Back' | new | ||
8 | orange | Back under-deck and down-hill microsprays | Back | new | ||
9 | grey | Back yard bottom | Back | yes | new |
The important thing to observe is that the wire color at (either the new or the old) controller doesn't always match what reaches the value. This is because the original system installers didn't leave enough slack to bring the controller inside to the furnace room.
Zone | Valve wire | Description | Status | Diagnosis | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
assignment | color | ||||
all | white | Common wire—goes to every valve | ✓ | ||
Front box: | |||||
1 | red | Front parkway and central lawn sprinklers | ✓ | ||
2 | green | Back north-side lawn, side and front lawn sprinklers | ✓ | ||
5 | blue | Front north and central plantings microsprays | ✓ | ||
South box: | |||||
3 | red | South lawn and mailbox parkway sprinklers | ✓ | ||
6 | yellow | South (side yard) microsprays | - | solenoid? | |
Back box: | |||||
8 | orange | Back planter, back hedge and back down-hill microsprays | ✓ | ||
4 | green | Back lawn under deck sprinklers | - | solenoid? | |
blue | Back yard bottom (not controlled) | ||||
Back (little round) box—wired through from back box: | |||||
7 | brown | Back south microsprays (from opposite back door to south fence) | - | solenoid? |