- Never over water again, simply set and forget
- Program to automatically start and shut off
- Works with low pressure drip and soaker hoses
- Set to water while you are away or at night
- 2-cycle independently programmable
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If you'd rather have time to sip lemonade than spend time watering your lawn or garden, start thinking about a Melnor electronic water timer. Here's how simple it can be: attach the timer to your hose faucet, press a button to establish the watering start time, press a button to set the watering duration, and then press another button to select how frequently you want to water (every one, two, or three days). That's it! You're free to enjoy a frosty beverage on your deck. Or water while you sleep in, taking advantage of the cool morning air to avoid excess evaporation. Either way, you won't have to worry about overwatering. This two-cycle timer also gives you the option to set an additional watering cycle--perfect for needy plants or arid times of the year. The timer runs on two AA batteries (not included). Two-year limited warranty.
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Never over water again, simply set and forget, program to automatically start and shut off. Works with low pressure drip and soaker hoses. Set to water while you are away or at night. 2-cycle independently programmable. Easy programming with tone prompt. On/off to use like a faucet.
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37 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not as Versital as it First Appears,
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This review is from: Melnor 3020 2-Cycle Electronic Micro Water Hose Timer (Lawn & Patio)
I have lots of beds around my house. I do very little overhead watering, and I have soaker hoses, and hoses running to remote soaker hoses, all over my yard. I have quick disconnects everywhere, and I can start watering any bed I want immediately.But I have two problems that I needed to solve. One was that I tended to forget I had started watering something, and the other is that after a tour of the yard, I may want to water everything at once. Both of those problems are solved with a timer. While I haven't tried every timer, I've tried a few. There are simple count-down timers that only time how long (or how much water) you put on, but cannot be set to start later. They're cheap, and they only solve one of my problems. This timer has some limitations on how you can set your schedules. It keeps track of how much time has passed, but it doesn't have a clock. You tell it how far in the future you want the first cycle to begin, and it works from that point. The first cycle can be set to be one-time only, or to repeat every 1, 2 or 3 days. A second cycle can be set to start after the first time the first cycle runs, again with the same options. The first cycle cannot be set to start more than 12 hours after programming. Thus is you want the water to come on at 5am, you can't set it any earlier than 5pm. Once you have the schedules set, there is no way to tell what the schedule is. If you are in doubt, you may need to reset it, and start over. On the other hand, I have a different, less expensive timer that I like better. That timer only has one schedule, but has more options of how often it is repeated, as little as every couple of hours, or up to a full week. On that timer, I also set the time of day. This means I can set it up to 23 hours in advance. It also means that I don't have to count how many times I press a button to make it start at 5am. I simply choose 5am on the dial. I find that timer meets my needs better than this one. I would submit to you that unless you have a small yard that can be considered only a single zone, you will want more than one timer. You may also not realize which features you like best until you actually try them. If two distict watering schedules for the same zone works for you, this may be the right timer for you. On the other hand, I found a less expensive single-schedule timer that better fit my needs. Ultimately I put this timer on the drip irrigation zone that includes my tomato and pepper garden. I anticipate freqently changing the schedule, and I will be freqently watering this plot. So it matters less that the repeat function choices are only every 1, 2 or 3 days, and I don't have to worry about resetting the clock each time I change the schedule. I doubt that I'll be buying more of this timer, but that's not to say it's a bad timer. It's just not the right one for the way I use timers.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Terrible quality,
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This review is from: Melnor 3020 2-Cycle Electronic Micro Water Hose Timer (Lawn & Patio)
I have a .42 acre yard and have owned 4 of these timers. All four broke within a year. I did not abuse them (brought them inside in winter, took out the batteries, etc.)They have a new model (cylindrical shape) and 2/4 of these have broken within the first year. Extremely frustrating waste of time. Avoid these electronic timers.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
not intuitive,
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This review is from: Melnor 3020 2-Cycle Electronic Micro Water Hose Timer (Lawn & Patio)
It does the job but is not intuitive. You'll never know exactly when the system will turn on since there is no clock to set. It is based on relative time, like `it will start x amount of hours from now'.
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