Nancy and bought our home from the original owners last winter. Now that the rains have stopped it's time to turn the auto sprinkler system on. I'm clueless as I've never owned such a system. I had the controller unplugged for winter and though we'd never used the system, it absolutely had to be operational prior to winter since the extensive garden and all grass areas were perfectly healthy.

I figured I'd just have to power up the control and turn it on to be in business but here's what happened...

I programmed the controller to start and nothing happened. I went and checked the main water line, found it to be off so turned it on. At that time, all the many sprinklers started going though I didn't have them all programmed to. I tried to turn the system off from the control and nothing changed. I unplugged the controller and nothing changed either.

I remembered seeing some green sprinkler gizmo housings so I went to the one in the front yard and found it full of water with these solenoid looking things disconnected and water shooting out from where they should have been attached. I'm assuming that this is why the controller didn't do anything. There were also two knobs that I don't know the function of as well as on/off levers that should go between the solenoids and the rest of the assembly.

At that point I turned the main water line off and I want to get this all set correctly before trying it again. The only instructions I have are for the control panel.

Can someone please explain the settings of these knobs for me so I can save the garden shown?

http://members.roadfly.com/canyonlands/control.jpg

http://members.roadfly.com/canyonlands/mainline.jpg

http://members.roadfly.com/canyonlands/valves.jpg

http://members.roadfly.com/canyonlands/fourthofback.jpg

http://members.roadfly.com/canyonlands/thirdofside.jpg