Dig Hose Thread Watering Timer programs quickly and easily

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This is the second generation of Dig timers. I still have the ones I first bought after ten years or so of use. I liked them because they kept working! The programming on the first timers was a ilttle tedious. There one dial which you had to use a small plastic tool to turn(or a dull knife when you of course lost the small tool) that was set for duration. Unfortunately, you had to set the time at the actual time you wanted irrigation to begin by pressing a button. So if you wanted to water, say at 2am when you would not waste water to evaporation, you had to be up at that time to press the start button and then, you had to press a button to stop the watering, an hour, half hour, two hours later. That was a drag. But the timers worked so damn well and lasted for so long that I still have and use them.

In fact, since I couldn't find them at OSH anymore, I was looking online to buy another, when I discovered the new model which is much sleeker and much easier to program. This has two dials, one for duration and another for how ofter you want the irrigation to come on. Simple! My kind of programming. Furthermore they have solved the problem of late night, early morning watering. By holding down the start button, you can delay the time to start by as much as six hours, allowing you to set the 2am watering at 8pm!. You can change the irrigation duration and time by changing the dials, but to change a delayed opening, you have to take out the batteries and leave them out three minutes before starting all over. That is the only down side programming.

At Hose Thread Watering Timer

June 10, 2010

Dig Hose Thread Watering Timer programs quickly and easily