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Hi,

I installed 2 hunter 1" inline - jar head valve. When I manually turn on, all the sprinklers work but when I turn on through controller the valve is making puttering noise and not allowing to pass the water through. When I turn on the bleed and let the water flow through bleed all the sprinklers pop up.

I changed the new solenoid but couldnt fix the problem.

In order to check if it is getting enough power, I connected the it to another rainbird valve and it works but this hunter valve refuse to work.

Please help, I am getting crazy going back and forth

I tried cleaning valve and put it back togather.

One more thing, when I took out the solenoid and connected it to the zone, the solenoid is opening and closing fast and making puttering noise ( like frog).

Is the solenoid bad?

In fact I used another solenoid but it is also doing the same thing

The front 3 valves are connected to controller and they are working fine.

When I added 4th and 5th valve and connected it to timer both are having this problem.

If I am taking wire from 4th and 5th valve and connecting to front valve they work fine, it shows that they are getting enough current and amps to let the valve funtion properly.

Last thing I did was to bring a new controller but before installation I tried one more thing.
I changed 9V battery in the controller and guess what . Both the new valve started working.

This was the last resort before changing the controller.

May be this info is helpful for anyone with similar problem.