Gardena Panel De Control Maestro

Excellent timer there works with my Gardina 6-way automatic water distributor. Fairly easy to use; takes a bit of getting used to, but you get used to it and does a great job. Good price.

After numerous years of annual replacement of hose lock I decided to switch to Gardena. Amazing product. My friends have min italy and Spain - they fair well in the heat. I don’t leave out in winter (I didn’t with hose lock either).. very please. Easy to use.

It all looked good to start with but then when the weather was changing daily I had to try and turn off schedules and this did not work it still allowed water to flow.

I wanted this to control 5 different watering zones with 6-way automatic switch and have it going on and off 3-4 times a day. Turns out you can only have 6 cycles a day. For my 5 zones I would use up 5/6 slots in my first watering run. No use for the rest of the 3 daily cycles. Brought I different Wi-Fi switch which works so good. I mean so good…..look up LinkTap G2S

Loved the product for the first 12 months but then started to get water leaking through the controller unit. Just a small amount at first but it soon grew into a torrent spewing through the control unit. So i took the cowling off and reconnected to the tap to see why this should be. Soon found the answer as you can see in the video. Poor quality materials or production or both have resulted in the moulding developing a hair-line crack sufficient to allow water through the control unit rather than through the correct piped route. This has obviously rendered the unit useless after only one summer of use followed by the winter on the garage shelf. Bitterly disappointing product due to poor materials used or production.