How To Test Your Rain Sensor

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How to test your rain sensor.

You use all the other options on the dashboard to verify the rain gauge calibration. Things needed operator s manual for your irrigation system. 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. The top value shows the current rain accumulation.

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. Refresh your device s history feed again. 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. Hold down the test spindle on the rain sensor.

Release the test spindle on the rain sensor. Your car s sensors can tell it is raining by measuring how many rain drops are on the windshield. The three options with buttons may require your input. A new history event titled rain sensor activated should appear.

Refresh the history feed pull to refresh on android and ios. The other options show test results. 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. Benefits of a rain sensor.

A new activity should be logged as rain sensor deactivated. Typically it will be located on the roofline or atop a fence. Turn on the time clock for the zone nearest the sensor. Some of the benefits both immediate and long term include.