Orbit 62001 Lawn and Garden Digital Watering Timer
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Orbit 62001 Lawn and Garden Digital Watering Timer
Customer Review: Excellent and flexible programming timer
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been using this for about 3 weeks now and it's so easy to use. It's nice that you can detach the programming module from the valve too. I was very impressed to see how many options there were for programming it: certain days of week, every 2nd day, every 3rd day, etc. I like the feature to just cancel the programming for 24 hours. So, when I see rain is coming or it's raining, I just run out to the timer, press "clear" and the system goes to sleep for 24 hours and then resumes from there automatically. Manual override is easy to set by just entering the minutes you want it to run and you can rest assured the water will turn off and you won't need to worry about forgetting it.Customer Review: Garden Water Timer
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my second unit of this brand and type and so far it is the most dependable, versatile and durable timer I have used. The only negative is the fragile display cover. The clock is accurate with easy to read instructions.Customer Review: Good Product
Summary: 4 Stars
Wind it up and let it go...this timer is great for making sure plants and flowers are watered on time. Just remember to check the battery level every so often. I haven't found a problem with battery life being short, I just tend to forget to check it until watering stops. Good buy.Customer Review: Good for high pressure systems
Summary: 5 Stars
I am using this timer on a garden sprinkler system that requires 115 PSI. Originally, I purchased another Orbit watering timer (w/ 2 dials) but it could not handle high pressure above 80PSI and allowed water to leak through the valve. I exchange it for this model a couple weeks ago and haven't had any issues with leaking water. I believe the manual rates this timer up to 80PSI though.Customer Review: Good idea but with a flaw
Summary: 3 Stars
This timer worked very well for me almost all summer and fall, which for the price is what I would have expected. My situation is that I needed a timer I could remove as needed to utilize the hydrant for other things, then replace, set and forget for a while. After several months of removing and replacing, the cheap (I simply cannot understand why a higher end item such as this has a "plastic" hydrant connection on the bottom) connector began getting cross threaded, and soon totally gave out. So I now have a perfectly good timer that can no longer be used because a cheap plastic connector gave up the ghost and I cannot get any hose to hold a connection. Sigh! Now I'm asking myself if it was worth the higher price? Maybe since I did get several months instead of the normal several weeks from the cheaper models, but probably not.
I suppose if you need rarely remove it this flawed part would last much longer... at least long enough to go through one battery life.