I know there are similar posts about this exact question. I looked over them and my Mechanical Timer looks different. I asked some guy “Gene” here for help but he just ignored me so I thought i’d make a post. I have 2 Zones. Let me know if you need pictures of anything or have any questions. I’m no…

Your idea about placing a third zone for the hose, wouldn’t that mean if I left it open that when I ran zone 1 or 2, water would be going into the hose?

Yes. It would require you to turn off the hose in order to prevent water flowing out of it when other zones are active, this is no different to how you were doing it do this date. If you wish to automate a hose, you could add an additional valve inline with the hose. Alas I cannot find a complete a…

Now you’re talking. Is it possible to run two zones at the same time? Haven’t looked at app that in depth until I figure out piping. I’m thinking I do your suggestion, remove the ball drop and just put a whole new pipe the length I need.

You cannot easily run multiple zones at the same time, but you could add a cheap relay to the mix in order to run multiple zones. The downside is that the controller will not correctly account for water use within your zones. If you are going to add a PVC pipe, than you will likely not need adapter…

I’ll show you when i finished today with the pipes of what I bought.

Looks great, out of curiosity, what kind of end connector have you used on the new valve at the left of the picture?

It’s 1” to hose. I need to get a hose nipple adapter to use the type of hose i’m using. https://www.homedepot.com/p/3-4-in-Thread-x-Hose-Nipple-D49/100111603 The way it is now is for a regular hose. But i’m using one of these hose boxes, so it screws on to the nipple. If that makes sense. Tested a…

So you are extending 3/4 tread away from the valve by how ever long the pipe section is? Seems that left section consists of: valve’s 3/4 female > 3/4 male to PVC > PVC > PVC to 3/4 female I’d bypass the extension and install the hose adapter directly to the valve, primary reason is to reduce the …

Right now it’s 1”x1”x3/4 tee, then 3/4 pvc to 1 inch adapter, into the valve, one inch adapter to 3/4 pvc to 3/4 pvc to hose adapter. Can you explain your idea, more dumbed down? lol.

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