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1. Robert Dreesen

   

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   6/23/2016 1:06 PM

   Since we are starting to be in a drought I figured I'd see if I could find any help on one of my many irrigation issues. We have been without power on 3 satellites for over a year now. We have keyed heads on or used a station master to turn on heads on these 3 holes. Pain in the year when we are as hot and dry as we have been. I have had an electrician come out to try to find the problem. He unhooked the power wires from the satellite and hooked onto them with a wire hound. They would just keep taking him to irrigation heads and we got nowhere finding the problem. These satellites are all in a row with the last one being a dead end. Any help to solving this would be appreciated. Thanks!
   
   Rob
   White Hawk GC
   Bixby, OK

   
   
   
   
2. David Stout

   

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   6/23/2016 4:06 PM

   Something seems off....why would tracing the 110/220 wire lead you to the heads? My vote is to hook up a generator at each clock to verify that it works. In the meantime, trace out your power wire path, check grounds and try a ground fault indicator to see if you have a short to ground. Most of the time, although not always, it's a bad splice on the hot or neutral wire, a bad ground, or a short to ground from a cut or nick in the wire casing.

   
   
   
   
3. Keith Fellenstein

   

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   6/24/2016 10:06 AM

   Could be any number of issues, but sounds like power wire has an issue between the first satellite without power and next one in that does have power. How close is the nearest satellite with power? Are your splices in the satellite or in splice boxes in field? Can you run new lines between the last known good power source and those without? Wire tracker and fault indicator should be able to pinpoint the issue, but replacing the run can be an even better solution. Sometimes you locate and fix problem only to have the next weakest link break in the chain.