Brighton Reticulation

How to Use An Add a Station

If you ever find yourself in a situation where one of the wires to your solenoids has broken and you either can’t be bothered or are unable to find the break then ‘add a station’ is your friend! By using this device you can make one power wire serve two solenoids, meaning you can either add a solenoid in a space where there is no access for new wires, or you can keep a solenoid operational by using the add a station on the functioning wire. It’s saved a lot of people over the years and is one of the […]

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When One Irrigation Station Doesn’t Work – But Everything is New

This week I installed a new reticulation system for a client in Duncraig, but after wiring it all up I discovered that station 1 didn’t come on. I checked my wiring and it was intact. I checked the solenoids functioning and it was fine. Eventually I went back to the controller and checked that there was power in the station 1 terminal and this was the problem. A brand new controller but it was faulty. Sometimes you can disconnect the 24v cables, let it sit for half an hour and it comes right – just like restarting your computer. But […]

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