Programmable Digital Hose Watering Timer - 1 Outlet - Battery Powered - with LCD Screen - Built-in Rain Delay - Water-Resistant - 62061

I love these controllers - I have 3 covering different landscaping needs for my front, side, and back yards! They’re simple to use and have been more rugged than expected for point of use watering needs! I install them with pvc unions to make them replaceable (if required) but after 2 years they still perform flawlessly!!

These work well. The complaint might be they get too much for them. I walked into a deal at Amazon and bought a few for depth while the price was temporarily reduced.

It was great until it stopped operating the valve. All the program settings were still there but it just wouldn't turn the valve. It displayed a low battery indicator, despite only having run once a day for 2.5 months. I replaced the batteries. The battery compartment had water in it despite appearing to be well sealed. The battery indicator was still low and it still would not operate the valve. I was depending on this to water my plants while I was away and my plants were near death when I returned. Some were dead while others were shriveled but still green and may or may not recover. I looked up Orbit's warranty. They have a website with a chat bot that takes down your information and then says it's sending a gift card to your phone with a code for a new one at the Orbit website. The gift card number it sent was "None" and it did not work to purchase anything. I tried to talk to the chat bot again but it had vanished. I reloaded the page and went through the same thing again, then complained to the chatbot but it did not respond after saying it was sending me a gift card. Not sure I want another garbage timer that's going to kill my plants while I'm away. In short, get this timer if you want to invest years into grafting and growing your own plants only to have them killed when you go on a trip because the irrigation timer failed. I added a photo of one of them taken after I'd gotten to work in the middle of the night trying to resuscitate them instead of sleeping before work tomorrow. I'm glad I checked them as soon as I got in instead of waiting till the next day, but still extremely upset about this. I think orbit should buy me replacement plants at least for this but it still wouldn't really replace them because these are my plants that I grew from seeds and grafted myself. If they can even get the same kinds, those would be plants someone else raised. These are my babies. Those bastards hurt my babies! Update: Almost all my plants look like they've recovered well. I managed to speak to a human at Orbit and they are sending me a replacement. I took apart much of the broken one. It was full of water inside. The vulnerability appears to be where the LCD screen mates with the housing. Pushing the battery compartment in and out creates pressure that squirts water out around the edges of the screen. I'm going to put something, maybe epoxy, around the edge of the screen to try to prevent rain getting in to the new unit.

The little direction manual that comes with this timer is easy to read and understand. It seems made well but for one feature. I had to ding one star for the plastic connectors, especially the one connecting to the hose bib. It was actually shaving tiny bits of black plastic off as I attempted to get it on the hose bib straight. It kept wanting to screw on crooked, a bit of a pain. Took a while (I was thinking about a refund) but finally got it on after about 10 minutes. The rest was great, very easy to program. It does not remind you when it is next going to run, and only has 1 schedule to set so be sure you write it down if you are prone to forget your watering days, times and length of time to run. You can manually run too. I tested mine by having it start 5 minutes after I connected it, to make sure I had all the sprinklers as well as hose pressure set right, then changed that start time to what I wanted it to be permanently. It is all easy enough to change, though, if you wish to later on. I have mine running with these sprinklers, which are really quite nice and make a great combination for my roses Nelson 50180 Simple Soaker Flower Watering Sprinkler with 50-Foot Tubing, Five Nozzles with Plastic Spikes, Risers, End Plug Set, and Deflectors .

I purchased model 62061N in May of 2018. It performed flawlessly during the summers of 2018 and 2019 here in the Boston area. This spring--2020--it started the growing season flawlessly as well, but its electronics failed in July, 2020. The symptoms included total loss of the display (except for momentary display of all segment when the batteries were fresh and the RESET button was pushed) and absence of response when the function dial was turned or the 3 buttons were pushed. A search of the Amazon site for warranty information failed because the warranty PDF was "corrupt." The Orbit website specified the warranty period is only 1 year and has made communications difficult so far. A Google search for help/experiences/ideas from others addressed other problems with the unit--though one utube video had the owner smahing the unit to bits! Total disassembly showed no corrosion or water damage with all parts appearing perfect. (Recall that the screen also displayed all segments on RESET.) My only recourse--because I NEED a watering timer--is to change brands and hope for the best. A little research yielded an email address for Orbit. I wrote the company with all the detail I could muster and almost immediately received a courteous--and very HUMAN--response. The customer service rep asked a few questions then referred me to a supervisor who then wrote me to say: 1)he was authorizing the shipment of the closest current model of the broken watering timer, and 2) he asked that I return the TOTALLY DISASSEMBLED broken unit in a pre-paid envelope that would be included with the replacement unit. I don't think that customer service can get much better than that, so I've raised my rating to 5 stars. One more thing: I ordered a new watering timer branded Rain Bird 1ZEHTMR, after examining many pictures online. I was looking for a unit that did NOT have the same internal workings, since I had earlier judged them to be problematic. The Rain Bird I ordered has a different external PHYSICAL appearance, but when I received it, on 8/10/20, I realized that it is virtually the same as the broken Orbit unit INTERNALLY.

Ok

I bought 3 of these in 2023 and they are perfect, very easy to set up and use and do not leak ... this review is now July 2025 and I bought them 2 summer ago and have no regrets ... they work perfectly

The time function is 6 hours interval for lowest.

En lo personal estaba buscando un temporizador para regar mi pasto, es muy buen producto muuuuy sencillo de configurar te tardas 2 min y funciona excelente!

Os dois aparelhos funcionam perfeitamente. Fazem a irrigação das minhas orquídeas por gotejamento, a cada dois a três dias.