Men!
Meet Chuck..... A nice guy. He's here to help me with the irrigation system that has gone afoul. It's a big yard so the irrigation system is important. It's hard to keep things alive with just a couple of hose sprinklers made more for kids to play in in the summer than to do a thorough watering. I give Chuck a summary of what I have attempted so far. Check water flow, rewired siphons in case of rust or disconnect, fiddled with the RainBird checking for loose wires. None of it worked, hence Chuck. He does all the same things. It takes him a good long while to figure it out. Since it was a "HOME JOB", by the previous owner, the wire going from the RainBird to the first siphon, which would normally be a different color than the rest, is black like the rest of them. Someone, who has worked on the siphons in the not too distant past, seemed to have found a "lose" wire and wrapped it around the first siphon. Moles buried the siphons more than normal and I did...