Yesterday, while working on a MacGyvered sprinkler system to keep my lawn and plants alive while I go away for a month, I had the greatest idea for a blog post. That's one I really want to get out there, I thought. My readers, all three of you, will love this one.
Yeah. Exactly. No clue whatsoever. I'm not even sure what the category might have been, let alone the specific topic.
Oh well.
Also, in case you were wondering, cobbling together a sprinkler system instead of having one dug into the ground, is a royal PITA. I did, however, finally get it done. Only to find out that the four zone timer I had bought was counting in seconds instead of minutes. Sprinkler activates as expected, runs for fifteen seconds, shuts back down. And of course I had bought the last one. Hopefully the store in the next town has one on the shelf.
4 comments:
As one of the favored three, I'm just gonna ask how many seconds you can put on the system? I mean, can you do one minute every hour?
My in-ground dripline/sprinkler system at Station#3 has failed, and requires me to manually rotate the solenoid to get the water flowing up to the 100-foot long embankment... Not being electrically inclined I haven't investigated whether it's a faulty solenoid or a failure in the wiring.
JW, I probably could, but I want it to sprinkle when it's not hot outside, so early in the am or late in the evening. I just went and bought another one and today I test it out. Tomorrow I leave on the trip so either all the plants die or they don't. It will be out of my hands.
Not even sure where to start on that but at least you can manually rotate it. 😁
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