After reading several articles, I don’t feel like I could find my answer lol
I have a pump start relay with two 24v wires. Where do these wires connect to? Should they be spliced into the common, or connected to the p/mv or both?!
Thank you!
@emil Any thoughts on this?
This is my wiring schematic for the relay, a standard orbit relay with 2 24v outputs, it this is any help.
What’s confusing is if you read step #5 on the relay instructions it seems like it’s saying to connect one 24v to the common and one to the p/mv. I’m completely lost lol
That is correct one to p/MV and one to common.
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Thank you, I will try that tomorrow and post my findings.Thanks!!
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Thanks @Sprinkle!
@dylanbeck2, step 5 is correct:
The wiring diagrams are my best friend 
…let’s break down your setup:
The controller outputs 24VAC, as such we want the 24VAC leads from the relay going to the controller:
We see these wires in your other community thread’s photos…
Note the 24Vac labels, which are spliced to a black and white wire that go out the top of your relay box…
However, I don’t see the black wire coming into your wallmount…
The white wire appears to match the thickness of your pump relay wire, but I believe the black wire you have connected comes from the multi-strand wire (unless the black wire is hiding behind the multi-strand, but the thickness appears to be thinner).
Is the black wire hiding somewhere? Did it get spliced into the multi-strand somewhere? I remember you mentioned one of the wires is spliced into the valve common then connected to the com (yellow) – do you have a photo of this by chance? We might want to consider un-splicing this to simplify the the possible wiring interference you’re seeing.
I hope this helps.
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@emil @franz @Sprinkle
Hello everyone, and thank you for your responses, it has been great help to me!
Well I have got further then I was a week ago, I rewired all of the valves, 24v wires coming from the relay to double check there were no loose connections.
When I begin to run a cycle, the Rachio atleast comes on now for longer then it did before.
I videoed what is happening when I begin a cycle at this link ( https://vid.me/EhuT ) Don’t mind my neighbors hammer sound in the background lol
I also uploaded my current wiring.
If you notice when I start a cycle, there is a small blue arc coming from the relay…is this normal?? I’m starting to narrow it down to either the relay or the power supply.
Thank you all SO much in advance.
It was a bad pump start relay the entire time!! Water is flowing now lol
Thanks for everyone’s help!!
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@dylanbeck2, sorry I missed seeing the video on Monday. The pump relay was my next guess. Glad to hear you got it up and running! 
Let us know if you encounter any other issues.
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