Handyman Guide On How To Wire A Sprinkler Valve Manifold
Wiring your electronic sprinkler valves is certainly within the realm of most homeowners. If you don't feel comfortable doing it you can always ask your handyman, but for the most part it is following colors on the wiring and connecting the wires.
Each electronic sprinkler valve will have two wires coming out of the solenoid. One wire will get connected to a white "common" wire and the other wire will get connected to an individual wire connected to the sprinkler timer control box. Each wire coming out of the cable connecting the sprinkler valve manifold to the timer will be a different color.
To wire the timer, just attach an individual wire to each of the station terminals you plan to use. For example, if you have four sprinkler valves, you will strip the ends of 4 wires and attach one to each screw terminal. The white wire is always the common wire and must be attached under the screw terminal marked "common" or "com".
Now go to the sprinkler valve manifold and whichever color is attached to the timer's first station terminal, connect one wire of the sprinkler valve to this color. Strip the insulation from the end and use water proof wire nuts. Do this for each sprinkler valve, attaching only one wire of each valve to each different color wire corresponding to the timer station screw terminals.
Once each sprinkler valve has one wire connected, take the remaining wire of each valve, strip the insulation, gang them together and attach them all to the white common wire coming from the cable, again using a waterproof wire nut. Now you can program the timer to run.