We have 11 raised garden beds, and a bunch of trees/garden beds/etc that we water every year. We decided this year to install 3/4” PVC through the yard and run a sprinkler valve to each garden bed, so we could have individual control of each garden bed. Each sprinkler valve has its own controler wire, which comes back to my Rachio irrigation controller. The installation went great and everything works, except when I trigger one valve, all of them are triggering.
Right now, I have each common terminal coming into a 5 port wago connector, and one of the wires from the sprinkler valve connected. The other wire is then connected to each zone. I understand this is an odd setup and not normal, so what I am wondering is if in my setup I need to use the same common wire on each sprinkler valve? Typically this wouldn’t matter in a 24vac setup, but this isn’t a typical install.
Picture of the current wiring/controller installation.
