Freezing timers revisited

Hello Steve,

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Your response is very much appreciated



Yes believe it or not I did know that’n’.



No question Steve, Still the threads don’t mate well. So far in 20 years the only malfunction I have encountered is parting of the solenoid assy from the rest of the valve, and while this might owe to a quick freeze (or to accidental connection without pressure controller), once I have disassembled the unit and wrapped the solenid-assy threads, reassembled and put back into service, none of them has failed in spite of repeated freezes.

Reason I switched from manual to electronic in the first place is stupid new drought rules that almost require an automatic device to avoid having to get up in the middle of the night. However in the meantime my suggestion of better threads or their wrapping would probably make a whole lot of people a whole lot happier for a very long time...



…,which it most certainly is..






If you’re offering to send me a free unit I accept with many thanks.... However the first thing I would do is to disassemble it, wrap the threads, and reassemble. So I reiterate my suggestion that you need to modify your production unit accordingly; then if you do so, change its part no. so that we will know whether we’re buying a new one.

In the meantime for those of us living in areas like ours forced to use battery timers in the wintertime, various other measures can be taken such as wrapping the timer itself in some kind of heavy insulation. But your ‘engineers’ should entertain sorts of more nearly permanent approaches, such as eg redesigning the timer with a temp sensor that with approaching freeze would turn it off and empty it.

https://able2know.org/topic/365136-1
https://www.google.com/?client=safari&channel=mac_bm#channel=mac_bm&q=wrap+battery+water+timer+prevent+freezing



I am Dale Hileman
11085 Chipmunk Rd
Apple Valley, Ca 92308-8219

My regards to your ‘engineers'



Thank you,
Dale Hileman
Rank amateur irrigation expert