How To Test Your Rain Sensor

Refresh your device s history feed again.

How to test your rain sensor.

Turn on the time clock for the zone nearest the sensor. 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. Refresh the history feed pull to refresh on android and ios. You use all the other options on the dashboard to verify the rain gauge calibration.

Locate the rain sensor for your irrigation system. A new history event titled rain sensor activated should appear. You can edit this value so that the rain value can be preset to a known value. Release the test spindle on the rain sensor.

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 other options show test results. Benefits of a rain sensor. The three options with buttons may require your input.

Things needed operator s manual for your irrigation system. Some of the benefits both immediate and long term include. Hold down 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 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. A new activity should be logged as rain sensor deactivated. 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. 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.