There are 2-3 wires in each of the 2 AC slots. Only one common and then 2 in each zone. I’ve not seen this in other pics. Can anyone assist where all the AC move to and do I put both wires in each zone in each Rachio zone as well?
@JKirkChavez - the big white wires on the AC do not get used in the Rachio. Not knowning what else is installed (rain sensor?) I can’t comment on the smaller wires going into the AC terminals. For the zone wires, I’d put both in the Rachio zone terminals.
Run a quick test using the Irritrol to make sure all the zones work before migrating to the Rachio. This will help in troubleshooting if a zone doesn’t work.
Welcome to the community.
@DLane thank you!
I have confirmed the two red going to AC and 1 brown in common are coming from the rain sensor as shown in pic. Can I disregard all of these which would leave nothing in common?
The blue one going to AC as well as some of the second wires I zone are coming out of the plug shown in picture, which hasn’t been connected to anything since we bought the house.
All zones are working as expected right now.
@JKirkChavez - thanks for the additional pictures, I think they gave me the clues to answer all of your questions.
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Cut the zip tie holding the cable going to the DB-15 plug in the bottom picture. Any wire in that cable can be removed from the setup. I think all the small silver color, stranded wires in the zone terminals will be these wires.
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There should be a white wire coming from the rain sensor. I think there is a wire nut where this wire is connected to another wire coming from the field wire. Put the the other wire into the Rachio C terminal (disconnect the wire nut and the white wire from the rain sensor).
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If you want to install the rain sensor here are the instructions:
https://rachio.kustomer.help/en_us/rachio-compatibility-with-irritrol-wireless-rain-sensor-ry_CwL1tP
TLDR: White and one Red to VAC -, the other Red to VAC +, Brown to S1 (and enable Sensor 1 to be a rain sensor in the Racho app).