Joe, I don't know what control unit you had or how many stations, but I recently replaced an ancient Toro unit with this one from Orbit. The advantage is that it is enclosed, which even in a garage it will probably have a long life (my older unit was eaten from rust coming from dust and spider webs).
Your ancient Toro controller was much newer than mine.
Mine uses a mechanical timer with programming pins. Why they even put a microcontroller in there, I am not sure.
I started to look at new ones but they all take a battery for the RTC. I don't need it to call my cell phone that I don't have have, update my blog or graph my water usage. It's grass, it gets water, don't over complicate it.
I've seen bigger transients captured on Youtube.
Sure, but they weren’t aimed at your home .... we just need a nickname for you now.
Lightning Joe?
Anyone?
Nearly.......Joe Lightning ! ! !
Now I need some sort of Joe Lightning intro for all my videos along with an action figure.