GardenaWith Flow Control, Brown/a

Very easy to use. Works very well. Good value.

I was looking for a hose-bib mounted mechanical water timer that would not restrict my anemic city water pressure and this did the trick, in spades.Our city water inlet is only 1/2 inch and results in about 50 PSI at the bib. As a result, I have had all sorts of trouble with impact sprinklers. I started with Melnor's then tried GIlmour's then finally Orbits. I tinkered and fussed but to no avail. If no one on my city block was so much as flushing a toilet, they MIGHT work a few times, but then would no longer spin hard enough to trip the return levers. I tried shortening the hoses that fed them, no luck. I tried using a smaller diameter hose hoping to raise the water velocity. No joy. I grew up on farms so I knew deep down that there's really only one brand of impact sprinkler worth anything and that is Rain Bird. I yanked out the old heads and dropped Rain Birds on. Still no love. I tried everything, I adjusted, I tinkered, I fussed, I meddled and twiddled. I even resorted to some rather colorful language which did nothing but cause my blood pressure to rise. However, it did nothing for my water pressure.It did cause the dog to give me a rather mournful look however.In desperation, I decided to swap out the timer I was using to see if maybe that was the problem. I have used Orbit and Melnor timers, but unfortunately the diameter of the pass-thru is about the size of a pencil and I can only run one impact sprinkler at a time with them. Like a bolt of lightning (Or possibly a rather large, well-thrown bolt) it hit me. The timers were throttling the water pressure down even further, below the threshold that even my beloved Rain Birds could operate. While the timer function was great, the pass-thru water pressure was not. Off to Amazon I went.After a few failed attempts at searching term usage, I found another timer that promised "High Volume", but the reviews were less then hearty even discounting the obvious "Pilot error" in some of them. Then I found this Gardena. At double the price that I had paid for mechanical water timers I was a little hesitant, but I was tired of standing next to a non functioning sprinkler head, getting soaking wet trying to get it to run and for the price of a couple CD's I was willing to have dry pants and no longer cause the dog great amounts of consternation at the vociferous language being used when he obviously hadn't peed in the house anywhere. Not that day anyway. I engaged the "Prime Directive" and two days later the magic box appeared on my porch.Irrigation bliss. Lo and behold my Rain Birds spun in near frantic ecstasy happily spreading water hither and yon across the yard. This Gardena works great. I can run both my Rain Birds and the lawn is thoroughly and evenly watered. The dog was rather non-plussed at first as he was not able to time his forays between the jets of water and got thoroughly soaked. He was at least kind enough to not sully my mood by likewise watering the living room rug, so all is good.Ignore the nonsense about variable pressure in some other reviews and simply bask in the glory of your sprinklers running at full pressure. The "Soft Off Feature" is nice I suppose but I personally don't care if my timer slams off as hard as my front door does when a political pollster shows up so long as the sprinklers are running at full bore and soak those wretched time vampires as they scurry down the sidewalk.

Great product. Works well. Beneficial if you are looking to conserve water. Set it for your desired watering time and it will do the rest.💦

We have approximately 175 rosebushes in nine different beds that have soaker hoses in them for irrigation. Several beds are hooked together forming five separate circuits. To irrigate, a hose is connected to each individual circuit, and duration of flow is controlled by a timer at the faucet. The timers we have had experience with all had one common problem. At the end of the timing cycle, the timer would shut off with a huge hydraulic shock that could be heard throughout the house. BAM!!! That sort of hammering can't do the plumbing any good. So I did some research and found the Gardena timer reviews had no complaints of hammering at shutoff. I purchased this timer even though the cost was twice as much as that for the last timer I bought, and it was absolutely worth it. It is very accurate, easy to use, and when it shuts off, you can barely hear it. We use it a lot, so time will tell how durable it is, but I suspect that it will last a long time, since it appears to be well made.

i've used this product before, generally satisfied. Though sometimes in the past I've found the timer portion can wear out and then the water will just keep running. There is no real way to prevent this. This is bad when we're on water restrictions. Perhaps a warning to users, to tell us to check at the end of the watering schedule, to be sure it's turned off as it should. - That is what i do now!