Orbit 57253 3 Valve Manifold, Green

Installed easily and works as expected. Very nice quality.

Aftermarket home repair requires some thought and preparation: Is the box big enough to hold all required valves? Is there sufficient clearance between the feeder lines and the solenoid? Do the feeder lines align with the solenoid output? Some additional digging and adaptation will most likely be required by the DYI installer. My irrigation system was done by a "professional" installer approximately sixteen years ago - and approximately one year before we bought this house. I have had to do feeder and source repairs on this system several times. As shown in the included pictures, not all retrofit headers designs are 90° - some are 180°. At the time of purchase (24 August 2015), 180° Orbit headers __DO NOT__ exist. I could have solved this dilemma with a new - and MUCH larger valve box. However, this concept was abandoned because 1. Additional costs (i.e. the new and bigger box), 2. Additional work (excavating a much larger hole), and 3. The zone 3/4 PVC pipes were too close together and approached the box from opposite directions. Number three alone would have made a valve box replacement impractical. So, I choose NOT to replace the valve box. This is a good design concept and _easy_ to assemble. I like the concept of being able to replace any faulty solenoid _without_ major surgery on __and__ the usual amputation of PVC feeder lines. Consistency of valve type is a big plus (I had a combination of Hunter, RainBird, and Orbit valves within my old system). The foibles are few. One is the size of the footprint (i.e. 5.75D x 12.5H x 9.25L inches): Since a 180° header is not available, accommodations for more than three zones in a single valve box exceeds 13 inches - The Orbit 53212 12-Inch Sprinkler System Rectangular Valve Box , commonly "packaged" by Amazon as an add-on item, is insufficient for more than three zones. There is no ding for this foible, since this is a planning phase issue. Unlike the Orbit 57253 3-Valve Heavy Duty Preassembled Manifold , the two valve unit _DOES_ include a five port “Easy Wire” Organizer. RECOMMENDED with thoughtful planning and some basic irrigation skills

This unit was purchased to replace a 30+years old sprinkler system. The design with a lot of hand-tightable unions is great to make it fit correctly to the existing pipe layout. I replaced 3 such systems for a total of 12 zones using a state of the art orbit electronic control station. Now it all works automatically according to weather forecast or manually from my iPhone. A tremendous improvement to what I had installed over 30 years ago.

Buen Producto,

Easily installed and working well. The instructions for valve operation worked, but not detailed enough.