Customer Reviews
Handy Set and Forget Watering System 
2007-08-11
This valve along with the rest of the kit (sold separately with a 4-port manifold, a timer controller, and two more valves) is the best outfit that I've tried (and I've tried several brands) for setting up timed watering stations in my yard while I'm off on vacation. This is the next best thing to an in-ground sprinkler system at a fraction of the cost!
I was gone for the whole month of July, and I didn't want a dead lawn when I returned, so I invested about $100 in this system with a couple of extra valves, hoses, and sprinkler heads. I set the sprinklers up in the yard with each of the four ports controlling one set of sprinklers (I have enough pressure that one hose can cover up to three sprinkler heads), plus a soaker hose in the flower bed. I set the timer to start at 4:00 A.M. every third day with the soaker hose set for 30 minutes and the sprinklers set at 50 minutes each, and it worked! Each valve triggers in turn when the previous one finishes, so by 7:00 A.M. everything was watered. When we returned from vacation, everything was in good shape. I'd had a kid come by to mow once every week, so the yard looked great!
One thing to watch out for is to turn off your automatic watering system once you get back and coil up your hoses! I forgot and had a full cycle water the side of my porch...
Great convenience, watering your plants 
2007-07-12
This is a great product. I have a matching timer with four ports, which I bought as a kit, with two of these valves. I use it with a hose reel and a soaker hose for a bunch of potted plants in the back yard. It's such a great convenience to just set the timer and all your plants are watered consistently, no matter how busy you are. And no more problems with coming home to dying plants, after returning from vacation.
One problem with the valves, as another reviewer pointed out, is that much of the hose connection point is made of plastic. If you put stress on the joint by moving it or hanging it off your faucet, it will break over time. That happened to one of mine, as I connect it to a hose reel through a quick connect. After about 8 months, connecting and disconnecting the hose line, the plastic connection points became brittle, cracked, and started dripping.
To solve this, I would recommend that you use a short flexible extension between the valve and your faucet, so that both ends of the valve are flexible, relieving stress on the plastic parts.
Beyond that, I think the product is great.
Good funtionallity but low matereal quality 
2007-03-10
this product is convenient and easy to install/program but the quality of material is low. I have had to replace it 3 times already.
The plastic encasing and specially the hose plastic connector breaks easily after being exposed to elements for 3 to 5 months.
Great Product 2006-11-11
This allows me not to have to remember to turn the water on and off. It is the next best thing to having an inground sprinkler system.
Water Valve 2006-11-06
Had to wait a while just to get it. However it worked(s) great.
poor quality control, beware 
2008-07-01
It's a great idea but is built too poorly to be worth investing in. I bought the kit that includes timer, 4 way splitter and 2 valves. One of the two valves failed within 90 days; i disassembled it, there is nothing visibly broken, and the filter and washer are clean.
The second valve lasted almost a full year before it did the same thing - no broken parts or wires or anything, just stops working and emits a high-pitched whine as water struggles to go through a closed valve.
The rub here is, you get used to not having to water and don't realize the valve has failed until you notice your dead plants or hear the whine. That ticks me off; if I water daily, I know when I missed a day. If I let Orbit do the job it may cause a disaster when it decides to not work. Buyer Beware - as noted elsewhere, the quality is wildly inconsistent.
Works as advertised 2008-04-27
Been about a month now and no problems from this device. Works just fine. Only annoyance is in manual (water now) mode, you can water either one station or all of them, there is no option for subsets.
In programmed mode you can water any set of the four per "time". You get three of these "times", independent of each other, per 24 hour day.
Waters stations in a given "time" in series, not in parallel, so only one valve is open at a time. This is a Good Thing for us, but it doesn't seem to be changable if you want different behavior.
Works for me 2007-10-27
I bought the whole system for my mother who is elderly and cannot maintain her yard anymore. The system works great for what we needed it for and the additional valve installs easily so we can utilize all four valve options.
Excellent to do business with... 2007-09-14
Quick shipping and delivery. Arrived as stated and works perfectly. Thank you for your business and I would buy from this seller again!
Fantastic... but... 2007-09-09
This system is great but the material quality is low. The outer casting is made from inferior material and it does not last more than a year. It will eventually crack inside the hose ring causing it to leak and need to be replaced. The units do have a lifetime warranty and so far Orbit has been good about sending me free replacements. Just remember to go to their web site and send them an e-mail explaining that the unit has failed.
Kind of a hassle but it sure beats watering by hand.
5 stars for the idea & functionality
1 star for durability
