Orbit62100 Yard Enforcer Motion-Activated Sprinkler

This auto sprinkler has been working pretty well in my yard. I wanted to find a way to keep the deer away from my garden without having to build a fence or anything like that. this thing does the trick (I think they're just scared of it now, which is funny). The motion sensor works good enough, but sometimes it takes a bit longer than i'd like for the water to start spraying after it detects something. It's not always consistent, but most of the time it works fine - probably depends on the angle or something (I haven't really figured out why it happens).One thing I noticed is that the timed watering feature can be a bit finicky. sometimes it won't turn off when it's supposed to, and then I end up with puddles everywhere (not sure if my neighbors have noticed, but I hope they don't start complaining). Other than that, though, the sprinkler has been doing a good job. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it and would recommend it to anyone who needs an easy way to keep animals away from their property - just be prepared for some occasional issues with the watering feature.

I put this together (frankly, it’s in a lot of pieces and requires more assembly than it should) and I used silicone faucet cartridge assembly type grease on all the seals and assembly points. It has not leaked a drop. The plastics are not great quality, so do yourself a favor and use the silicone grease, any hardware store has it.It is very sensitive, and has a wide arc/range- you don’t have to be anywhere near the front to trigger it. I think it’s 80 degrees or so. When it fires, it will splatter you even if you are behind it. Because it apparently needs to sense both heat and movement, such as with a moving critter, it does not fire with waving branches on a breezy day, and that’s very good- my yard is full of things that move in the wind. The intact Tom cat who has drenched my pool screens with foul-smelling pee nightly for months (as well as screaming and howling at 3am routinely right outside my bedroom window) got a face full of water and hit my wooden fence scrambling to escape with enough force that it sounded like an adult person climbing over. He made one more attempt the next night with similar results. I left it up a week and now set it only periodically just in case. The cat has not been back, nor am I hearing the howling in nearby yards, so I assume he was sufficiently impressed to choose new territory.Make sure your hose is durable - cracking the tap just a little does NOT limit pressure, only flow. If your house has high pressure such as mine (pool pressure) buy a reducer. A burst hose at 1am that you don’t find for 8 hours will lose a lot of water. Having the tap on less than full will reduce what you lose if it bursts, but again, simple physics dictate that it won’t reduce the pressure and make a burst hose less likely. Make sure the tap is on enough that you get a good strong and long firing- you want distance since the sensor will pick up the critter quite a ways from the unit. A good soaking is most likely to help the critter find another yard to prowl, rather than water that doesn’t reach them at all and just makes a lot of noise. If you are looking for an intact male cat to ruin your screen enclosure and wake you at 3am, I no longer have one to loan you.

We live in a rural setting w/ a large 1260 ft garden & have problems every year with wildlife getting into it & eating up all our hard work. We have deer, groundhogs, raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, possum, & gophers that like to break in & munch on everything. We were losing entire harvests of some items, losing hundreds of $ in food. We started out w/ 6 ft deer fencing- great for the deer for most of the season for the most part (they would stalk it & some would still jump it towards the end of the season) but everything else could immediately chew easily through. So we added 3 ft chicken wire around it as well- great for the rabbits, but everything else could still find a way in. So we added re-bar through the chicken wire all around the border to help keep the more stubborn animals from prying it up and/or bending it over & still chewing through the deer fencing- worked for most of the rest of the animals EXCEPT for the stubborn groundhogs- they would stalk & test the fence every single day, pulling & prying at it & digging to find spaces between the rebar & eventually would always find at least one way in, if not several. And of course in the meantime the gophers could easily dig under regardless. So we got sonic gopher spikes. Seemed to help somewhat for them, but not completely. SO that's when we finally invested in one of these to add to the arsenal. This works like a charm on deer! If they even get close to the fencing, they get sprayed. After getting sprayed a few times, they recognize the sound of the mechanism/trigger, & that alone will spook them before the spray even starts. And then they end up remembering & actually avoiding the trigger areas altogether- we've had ZERO problem with deer since purchasing this. The motion sensor has a harder time 'seeing' the shorter animals as far away as taller animals, so it takes some time & adjustment to find the right height & distance combo coverage when you are trying to protect the area from multiple types of animals of varying size, which just takes some patience- we love how highly adjustable the product is, you just have to find your personal sweet spot for it. Since our garden is large & rectangle, we decided to get a 2nd one for more thorough coverage of both far sides. We're glad we did! While we still have issues w/ groundhogs sometimes-- they are by far the most stubborn animal, & being low to the ground, at peak season when garden foliage is nice & full, it is easier for them to evade detection by the motion sensor, plus they don't 'learn' not to come back later after being sprayed like the deer do, so they'll get sprayed, run away, then come back a few hours later sometimes-- but these sprayers still have helped IMMENSELY. Most years we have been able to pull in around $2000 worth of fruits & vegetables, when we were losing up to around 1/3 of that before adding these sprayers to our arsenal. They are very motion sensitive, so it takes some adjusting to find your right level of sensitivity for them, & we found that on a very windy day we need to just turn them off or they go off constantly regardless, but it has been something that we've just learned to become mindful of, & the benefit of having them far outweighs any negatives. We also love the 30 minute watering cycle option during dry spells during the heat of summer. Very convenient, as I was spending hours out there watering before we had them! I also appreciate the height & distance adjustments to really customize it to fit the area you need it for. Customer service is also great! We had a problem with some gaskets on our first one breaking while still inside the warranty, & they sent us another one with no hassles. All in all, highly recommend this product! The only improvement I could think of would be to offer an even taller model to improve it's 'sight' coverage, since gardens have varying heights & rows of vegetation necessary to 'see' over top of in order to protect. But otherwise, no complaints!