Looks good, non-intuitive interface and pain to install cost them stars

Important Comment: The manual that comes with the unit is not THE manual. The full manual is on line. e.g. When you set the start time, the number indicator is for one of four start times per day. It is NOT the station number. All stations run consecutively on every start time if a duration is set. This is in the full manual not the manual shipped with the unit. As a result, I almost threw this thing away when it ran 16 times on one day on one program! But the fine print sent me on-line to get the thing to work. The comments on the orbit web site are that this is a non intuitive device! End of important comment. Looks good so far, easy enough to program though you should keep THE manual. Operations is not at all intuitive unless you already owned one of these. Some buttons have two labels (enter/manual). You have to cycle through modes to get to the mode you want (e.g. manual water individual stations.) But, if you just try them all, you will find what you want sooner or later. I took off one star for the non-intuitive interface. This is an outdoor controller. Thus it limits the openings to the controller. That is good. But installing it is a bear. I am a grown man. Trying to get my adult fingers in the sideways crook to access the common left me cursing. That cost them another star. The indoor Rainbird is easier to install but it is indoor which is where you should put this Orbit anyway. You can't leave this Orbit outdoors in the sun or rain either. So what is outdoors about it other than it is a bear to install? Anyway it works.

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