Can you clarify for me how the valves are wired into the system.
To clarify. There is a brown wire which is a zone wire in one of the relays. This goes to a valve.
I use a a different brown wire to daisy chain one side of the pole terminal to all 16 relays as I interpreted your step 1 in the original.
Did I confuse pole terminals with the coil terminals?
Does it matter that the commons in step 2 of the original are connected to the daisy chained commons of step 4?
It seems to me that the changes swap the pole and coil wires. I guess I got them confused.
Are the two unlabeled ports the coil posts? And the two labeled ports, the NO and the COM?
I see that is exactly what I did.
Arrrgh.
Thanks for all your help.
Iāll get it fixed.
Sorry I was away from the computer / couldnāt reply sooner.
Yes, you understood everything correctly on your last message.
It does not matter that Commons from step 2 are connected to commons of step 4.
Remember to swap the white / daisy chained brown wire on the spares. This way you will not be caught off guard later on when you get to use them.
Cheers 
Gene
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@Gene- thanks for stepping in on the assist as I was out of pocket all day today.
@Ksheston - glad the solution works for you and Gene got it working for multiple zones.
Let us know if there are any more questions or problems.
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@DLane, Iām a new user jumping into this older thread. I like your solution to run an external pump for only specific zones. Would you be able to provide a generic schematic to help visualize the circuits?
Side note, I was looking into the IFTTT/Smart Control abilities of the Rachio system to see if the system would be able to turn on and off a smart outlet powering the pump using WiFi commands. Unfortunately, it doesnāt appear the current Rachio IFTTT service has the capability.
One could set up the smart outlet with a timer to turn the pump on to coincide with a schedule of specified zones.
Thanks!
Bob
@Yooper_bob - be glad to help out. If you can give me some more details about the current setup and the desired behavior Iāll draw something up, unless @Gene is quicker on the trigger.
Rachio states they can power three solenoids at one time - i.e. master valve, zone 1 and zone 2 when reduce water hammer is on. So weāll have to watch and make sure we donāt pull too much current - Rachio will tell us - through a zone.
The solution above I used the voltage coming from the Master Valve/Pump Start Relay port to provide the power to trigger other valves, in combination with a zone terminal. The SPST relays donāt pull much power.
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