Electronic Water Timer

I bought this hose timer for my mother-in-law to automate watering the garden while she’s away, and it’s been a fantastic purchase. The best part? It’s so simple to use that even my mother-in-law (bless her), who struggles to send a text message, managed to set it up and operate it without calling me once after I had demonstrated it at my house. That’s saying something! The timer has a straightforward dial and button interface, no confusing menus or Wi-Fi apps to mess with. Just set the frequency and duration, and it does its job reliably every time. Also worth noting: it fits perfectly on her Darlac hose tap, provided the inlet hose is connected after the water timer. So just make sure the water timer is screwed directly onto the tap, and then connect your hoses to the inlet and outlet sides.

I have had several water timers which have failed for different reasons so this time I opted for a basic timer with no frills. It was easy to to set up and get going and as I write this it has been performing well watering my pots on the piped system while I have been away. The two knobs are self explainitary but of course the time of day that you set them will be the same as the watering time. So if you want it water at 2am then that's when you need to set it. My only concern at the moment is battery life as it only uses AAA size and they don't have much staying power to open and close the valve each watering time. So to be sure I will put new batteries in before I go away next time so it keeps working. I like the waterproof cover that screws over the front to keep the controls dry.If it keeps working well I might have to update for an extra star!.So far so very good at this price.

For the price this is an absolutely excellent timer. This is my second one as the first one I had was gifted to me and my partner had left the cover off and accidentally ran it over causing water to get into timer and I didn’t hesitate to buy the exact same one. So easy to use. Used this to water my greenhouse through summer when I was away for 2 weeks. No leaks

Only bought this very recently, just before we went on holiday. I didn't wish to spend a lot of money, because I only wanted it for a couple of pots and ordinarily I never use a timer. I set it up on a ordinary hose without an irrigation hose system just to water 2 pots of hydrangeas. I'm really impressed. It's only a very simple timer, but very easy to use. Because it doesn't have a digital clock, you have to do initial set up at a time you wish the hose to come on. I set it up at 6pm and set the dials for every 12 hours and for 5 minutes. So, from the time of set up, the timer clicks on at 6pm and 6am (every 12 hours, ie. twice each day) for 5 mins. Simple! In fact, with such hot weather recently, and my back garden being a sun trap, I've left the timer on! (No coming out to thirsty hydrangeas!) Once I've redesigned my garden, I'll put in a proper irrigation system and set it to that too! It's also quite varied in its timings. You can set it run for longer periods with varying increments (up to 120 minutes if I recall correctly) and set it to come on hourly, several times throughout the day, up to every 72 hours or even just weekly! I spent £12.49 and it's been well worth the money. I confess, it was significantly cheaper than some other brands I saw and I was worried that it wouldn't work properly, fall off the tap etc. etc. But I've been very pleasantly surprised and pleased with its performance and simplicity. It's only been working for just over a month now, so I can't comment on battery life or its long-term durability, but everything else is very good and I wouldn't hesitate in recommending it to anyone.

I must caveat this that the following is based on my experience of the 1 item I received. It is possible I have a dodgy one. Still early days. I installed this 4 days ago and so far it seems hit and miss. So far, more miss than hit. Let me explain: The instructions, although relatively easy to follow are rather high level and vague as to exactly how the timer works when setting up other than stating that you have to start it at the time you want it to come on. OK, got that. First of all, it seems rather temperamental as to whether it actually wants to do anything or not. Installing the batteries gets the system opened up and yo can hear a shirt whirling sound. Water comes out the pipe for about 30 seconds, then it shuts down. OK, so batteries are fine. The light winks on and off, seems random as to how often. No indication on instructions as to the meaning of different frequencies. Send: Turning the duration to "Open" from fist putting in batteries, sometimes opens the valve, sometimes doesn't, again seems pure lottery. More often than not, nothing happens at all. Thirdly: Setting up, as per instructions the timer and duration, again, sorry, to harp on, but is another lottery. SO far, it's worked once on the timer, whilst i was testing. However, when I then changed the frequency, it didn't register at all and stopped working completely. The only way to get anything to happen was to remove batteries and start again. Again, not always fool proof. Lastly The last attempt has failed to get the timer to work. Although the thing make all the right noises on battery removal/insertion and the test worked, once I set the timer up to water every 6 hours for 3 minutes, nothing happened at all.I've now reset it again and will see what happens. And the instructions state that once you've set it up to start with, you can just change it and it'll be fine. No you can't. It takes no notice and stops working completely. Only way is to remove batteries, reinstall them and pray. All in all, a lousy product. It was cheap, which is the only thing going for it, but I still expect it to at least work. I shall give it one more week and if it still isn't playing, I shall ditch it and get a Hozelock instead. My opinion: Buy something else. Spend a bit more for a product that actually does what it says on the tin. Update 2 May 2016. Had this going for a while now and it's still not good. Have figured out by reading all the feedback that if the lights flash quickly it means the thing isn't working. Noting in the instructions about that. Thanks to the poster for that info. I can now get the unit to work for about 2 days max before the lights start flashing fast again, then have to take batteries out and reinsert before it'll work again. Not so critical at the moment as have only transplanted chili plants which are quite small so need very little water, but once summer comes and the plant are fully grown, bit of a problem. Am definitely upgrading to a decent timer This one will go in the bin of bad puchases forever more.

Habe es im Garten benutzt. Alles hat in ordnung gelaufen, bis erstes Regen kam. Dann ist Wasser reingekommen, auch wenn es gut geschlossen war. Dann sind Batterien und Platine kaput gegangen... Nicht zu weiterempfehlen.

Después de escribir una opinión favorable respecto al producto tengo que indicar que pensé que duraría algo, pero no me llego a durar ni un mes trabajando 15 minutos en intervalos de 12 horas. Así que no recomiendo este producto a nadie un auténtico fiasco

Très bien pour le prix. La première fois que je l'ai programmé, il n'a pas marché après 24h. J'ai réessayé et ça a marché, donc il ne faut pas hésiter à recommencer. Comme l'ont fait remarquer certains autres acheteurs, les bagues de fixations ne sont pas forcément très solides, il faut juste éviter de les serrer trop fort.

facile da installare e perfettamente funzionante - peccato le istruzioni solo in inglese e la mancanza di un avvio rapido anche non a tempo

Facilité de mise en oeuvre. Le couvercle en polycarbonate qui se visse pour protéger les boutons de programmation ne permet pas une étanchéité parfaite. l'Humidité sous forme de condensation est a essuyé régulièrement. A part cela, c'est parfait