Rainbird RZX6I-120V 6 Station Indoor Controller

Leicht zu programmieren, alles läuft tadellos. Kaufempfehlung

Just as expected!

Let me start with this: This is the smartest controller I have ever seen so far. I owned few different controllers - different brands, types smart and dumb and this one if far most advanced than any other. Now for some details.I had perfectly good and working Orbit controller (6 sections) but with the latest watering restrictions applied in Sacramento area Orbit would either let my grass die or make me pay hefty fines. Why is that? Most popular "residential" controllers you can buy in local stores (Orbit, RainBird or Toro) use predefined watering logic. You can group zones (valves) into sections and then define the the watering cycles of each section (Orbit). Other can let you control each valve separately but then you have to use predefined watering intervals (RainBird SST600i). None of them would work if you take water from Sacramento County Water Agency and have different plants to water. Factory programmed logic in these controllers is not good enough.RainBird ESP-RZX incorporates very simple and basic logic: you can program each valve independently. For each valve you define what are the wattering days (days of week or days to skip), individual start times with 10 minutes resolution (up to 6 times a day) and of course the duration. It does not go "the whole nine yards" so you can't define the watering duration for each start time nor you can't define the start times for each day of the week - maybe someone in RainBird will make the model like that. Some day.So here is my example:I can water my grass only on Sunday (even house number) before 6am and after 8pm. So to be "legal" I can water my front yard grass (Zone 1 and 2) Sunday early morning and the second time late evening so I setup Zone 1 and Zone 2 four start times on Sunday only (two short watering durations lets the water soak in the soul not to run out on the street). On the front yard I have also shrubs with dripping system (Zone 3) so I can water them on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. That is my setting on Zone 3.The grass in my backyard is in shade (Zone 4 and 5), so it can take less water than the front yard. Because I would like to have my backyard "dry" on weekends so I setup in zone 4 6 times short watering cycles on Sunday late evening. Zone 5 is dripping system for flower pots. So to discourage snails and slugs to feast on them at night I set the starting time on Zone 5 just before 6am. And finally zone 6 is dripping system for my backyard trees and shrubs. It can be set to water late evening which also helps with cooling down this area.I couldn't setup this with my current Orbit timer nor any other "residential" timer I was looking for in local stores (I didn't want to spend hundreds of dollars for commercial setup). With RainBird ESP-RZX I was able to accomplish my watering goals for the price of "normal residential" timers.This model has all other features, that are common in "residential" timers: rains sensor (not needed in Sacramento area, because it doesn't rain here in summer time at all), well pump (or master valve switch), watering percentage adjustment, manual watering etc...It is true that the screen is small and you need a decent light to see it, but really once I set it up for the season I don't look at it for the most of the year. Buttons have a solid feel (kind of "click"). Wire connectors are big enough to accommodate all kind of wires and they are easy accessible for the installation. So in my opinion this model is bigger "bang for bucks" than for example similarly priced SST600i (which I had to return to the sore as soon as I learned that the "No complex programming" means "You are stuck with limited factory options").

no drawing for install; website sucks for drawings

funktioniert problemlos und ist einfach zu programmieren. Habe es als Ersatz für das Modell E-6c verwendet.Für jede Zone (Ventil) wird eine eigene Startzeit angegeben, beim alten Modell E-6c konnten alle Zonen der Reihe nach durchlaufen werden und es musste nur für die erste Zone eine Startzeit angegeben werden.