Rain Bird SST900i - Simple to Set Indoor Timer 9-Zone

Ce contrôleur remplace un autre qui était défectueux. Installé et fonctionnel en moins de 45 minutes.

When we bought our new house, I purchased this unit to replace the huge, 1970's era timer that sounded like a ticking time bomb! As a previous owner of a Rain Bird 4-zone system very similar to this, I decided to stick with Rain Bird and get this unit for the new house, which had a total of 8 zones. The unit is completely silent and about 1/4 the size of the old one. Installation was incredibly simple and straightforward. Most of the time you simply hook the wires up in the same order you took the old ones off. I recommend taking a picture or two of your current wiring before doing anything. This will allow you to reference back to what color wire controlled what zone and at least put everything back the way it way should you find yourself over your head. Programming is also very simple. It also is pretty fool proof... for example, if you leave the start time for every zone at 8am, with each zone set to run for 5 minutes, then it will automatically start Zone 1 at 8am for 5 minutes, then Zone 2 for 5, then Zone 3, etc. This way, you can easily change the duration for each zone without having to ensure the start times for each zone do not overlap. It makes scheduling and updating very easy!

This matches my other irrigation controllers and makes setting up my irrigation in the spring quite easy now that all my controllers are of the same model.

SUPERB sprinkler controller, Easy to install, Easy to program, it has all the features I wanted : Buttons / settings for " water one zone now " & " water all zones now ", " Seasonal adjust ", Timed Rain Delay. I have had it working for a few weeks now, & everything works just fine & on time. We have an 8-zone watering system, this controller is a 9-zone one, the extra zone turns on our well pump and feeds water to a back yard water faucet that feeds 2 extra sprinklers. Great controller & fully programmable for days of the week, start & run times for every zone. I would certainly buy another one of these. FYI ... There seems to be another one being sold (with same model number), that looks VERY similar, but it does NOT have the " Water all zones now " button. So look out for the two buttons under (and to the right) of the round controller dial.

We purchased this item as a replacement of a 14-year-old Rainbird unit that wasn't working properly anymore. This was very easy to set up and i'm loving all the newer features, especially the "water all zones". My only complaints are as follows: * Display next watering time: For some reason, it just says one zone instead of the all the zones we set up. It seems to water all of them but not sure it just says, zone 6, for example. * No way to hold zone information/reminder card - in our old unit, the housing box actually was in a "box" so we were able to close it. Sometimes I just want to water our flower beds for a few minutes and forget which zone it is. Having somewhere to store that would've been helpful. Other than that, so far a great unit!