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I recently bought a sprinkler valve and was wondering, is the manual pilot switch make the valve open any slower than the solenoid?

Another thing I've noticed, I found out what "Honking" means, it's probably just because I'm not pressurizing it much, it's just taped together for testing.

I'm pretty sure the manual switch opens just a little slower. I think (although I'm not sure) Solenoids move fairly quickly. I doubt that there is much difference though because both the manual switch and solenoid leak out the same hole.

I figured as much. Is there any easy way to stop the honking noise?

if it still honks after you glue it, mod the valve. make sure the arrows are pointing towards the barrel

What would gluing change, the fittings are threaded into the sprinkler. I just hope the honking loudness is'nt proportional to the pressure being released.

If it honks you need faster pilot valve ie.better blow gun or mod a blow gun to get a faster flow.