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Posted by Joseph Meehan on August 10, 2005, 5:08 pm
Henry wrote:
>I recently connected a Melnor Electronic Aqua Timer (Model 3015) to my
> sillcock and set it to water 10 minutes every 6am.
>
> It worked fine for 2 days. On 3rd day morning (about 6:30am) I found a
> big stream of water pouring out from the sillcock's handle. This had
> never happened. I turned off the sillcock right away. After that, no
> matter how I turned it on or off, I just couldn't reproduce the
> problem. It just didn't leak even a drop of water.
>
> Thought it was ok, I turned on the sillcock. Everything worked fine
> for another 2 days. This morning, again, I found water pouring out of
> the sillcock handle! And same thing, after I turned it off, I couldn't
> reproduce it. This is weird!
>
> I wonder if this is because the timer's valve causes a quick high
> pressure when it turns off and the pressure pops up the handle from
> sillcock? If that's the reason, how come I couldn't manually make it
> leaking by pulling out the handle a little bit?
Maybe, or maybe the packing just can't handle it over long periods. Off
hand I would think you are right about it.
>
> Does anyone has similar experience? Thanks!
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Joseph Meehan
Dia duit
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