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Two Zone Timer

Two Zone Timer

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Brand: Melnor
Category: Home Improvement

Buy New: $37.78 (On sale from $37.99)



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Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars 5 reviews
Sales Rank: 6570

Media: Misc.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5

MPN: 3100
Model: 3100
UPC: 042206031006
EAN: 0042206031006
ASIN: B000PQPGY4

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • Allows watering two areas from one faucet
  • Two independent timers
  • Easy dial operation
  • Start/delay switch
  • Up to 24 cycles per day

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
- Two independent timers in one unit. - Easy dial operation. - Manual On/off. - Use Frequency dial to select how often you want to water. - Use Duration dial to select how long you want to water for. - Made in Taiwan.


Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars absolute piece of junk   August 25, 2008
Dick E (bainbridge, wa)
I bought this water timer last month to handle critical watering of my garden while on vacation. It is difficult to be sure of correct setup as mentioned in other reviews, but I did verify operation before leaving on vacation. At some point, the timer completely quit working and no watering occurred at that point. Batteries were new, and all directions were followed. It is waste of money to buy this product. Worse, you can suffer damage to plants that did not get watered.


1 out of 5 stars Valves don't shut completly   June 23, 2008
Joe DiMaggio (New Jersey)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I purchased a Vigoro two zone water timer identical in function and appearance to the Melnor and obviously manufactured by the same company. I was using one side to water potted plants for 3 minutes a day. I had to exchange the timer for another unit because the valve never shut off completely and the pots flooded. the second unit appears to be working properly but with no indicators and the full cycle delay there is no easy way to know for sure


2 out of 5 stars Item seems to miss watering schedules   June 22, 2008
Garrett Cook (Knoxville, TN)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I bought two of these at a local store to regulate my lawn watering. I liked the idea that the one unit could control two schedules independently, and that the unit also served as a Y-splitter so I didn't have to buy one of those. But it seemed to only hit one or two waterings before it would miss the next one. This happened more than once, and I was never really able to trust it to do the job.


3 out of 5 stars Annoying start time delay   June 10, 2008
B. Day (Huntsville, AL USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

My main complaint about this timer is that it waits for the wait interval to expire before turning on for the first time. IOW, if you set it to come on every 24 hours for 30 minutes, it will wait 24 hours before turning itself on the first time. I would have expected it to turn on immediately, then delay before turning on again. Other than that, it does what it's supposed to.


5 out of 5 stars Works Great   April 25, 2008
Larry E. Simeur Sr. (Manteno, IL United States)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful

Please read, the timer I have is the Model R682C Raindrip two zone water timer BUT the Melnor two zone timer looks exactly the same, everything down to the battery indicator located on the bottom center of each unit. MY guess is that one of the companies took over manufacturing this unit from the other. The only difference is the name of the brand. Now to the timer itself. It works like it should, what more can be said. People say that break, will it will if you don't take care of it. It's only made of plastic.