How To Test Your Rain Sensor

The other options show test results.

How to test your rain sensor. The three options with buttons may require your input. Some of the benefits both immediate and long term include. Benefits of a rain sensor. A new history event titled rain sensor activated should appear.

A new activity should be logged as rain sensor deactivated. Turn on the time clock for the zone nearest the sensor. Saving money whether you pay for city water or spend electricity running a pump the money you save over. Typically it will be located on the roofline or atop a fence.

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. Refresh the history feed pull to refresh on android and ios. 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. Things needed operator s manual for your irrigation system.

Hold down the test spindle on the rain sensor. You can edit this value so that the rain value can be preset to a known value. You use all the other options on the dashboard to verify the rain gauge calibration. Refresh your device s history feed again.

The top value shows the current rain accumulation. 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. 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. Your car s sensors can tell it is raining by measuring how many rain drops are on the windshield.