Irritrol RD600-EXT-R Rain Dial 6 Station Outdoor Irrigation Controller

The item arrived totally as ordered and carefully packaged. It was easy to install and program, and works perfectly. An important thing is that the Seller reached out to me directly by phone to confirm that this item was in fact exactly what I wanted. Included within the packaging were his business card and a note inviting any questions about the installation or operation of the item.

These timers work awesome!!! My last one kept working for 18 yrs. Great product.

Order this to replace the exact one I had and it fit perfectly. Easy to install and arrived on time.

Ours lasted 9 years in Phoenix. It got direct sun all day (not my choice of install locations). Easy to program as well. Feels well made

I purchased this unit as a replacement for the prior generation of the same unit. If I had wanted to, I could have simply swapped out the control unit by detatching the ribbon cable and popping the old one off its hinges. However, I removed the entire old one and put this one in its place. I did not install the original unit, but the whole replacement process took around 30 minutes.This new unit has a nice feature that allows it to be programmed "offline" by using power from the 9-volt backup battery. That's nice so that you don't need to stand at the terminal (outside, in the sun... it's over 100 degrees here) to perform the setup.The unit is simple to configure and use and the manual is easy to understand, even if you have never seen this kind of unit before.For those interested, the prior version (8+ years old) has a known bug in the code that causes it to "freak out" periodically and stop activating its stations. The temporary fix is to kill all power, remove the battery, wait a few minutes, then re-apply power. Usually, I needed to reprogram the thing after that little exercise. That works, but is inconvenient and you usually only find out it has happened when your plants start to turn brown.This new version has NVRAM that stores your programming even if the backup battery dies -- oh, and the bug is supposed to be fixed. So far, so good.

Replaced my old one with the same model. Easy swap and is working great!

We replaced a 10+ year old version of this same controller with a new version. The installation was super simple and it works great. I only hope that it also lasts for 10+ years, even in the extreme heat of Phoenix.

I installed this unit to replace an identical controller which had failed after 13 years. If I can get 13 years out of each of these in the extreme Arizona weather with 110° heat in the summer with sun shining directly on it, I consider that to be pretty durable. I don't think I've had anything else in my yard last that long (pool pump, pool filter, landscape lighting, hose reels, etc)I stayed with this unit because I find it very intuitive to use. There are so many programming options, with each of the zones being able to be set to their own watering times within each of the 3 different programmable intervals. For example, you can have Program A set to water once a week on Wednesday, and within that program you can have the grass watered for 10 mins, shrubs for 2 hours, trees for 3 hours. Then Program B could be set to water 7 days a week, and within that program you can have pots watered for 10 minutes. I use program C to fill up my fountain twice a week, I just run it for about 10 minutes each time with a bubbler to top if off. It was a lot easier than trying to run a new water line and installing an auto-fill system!It was a direcl plug-n-play as I expected, and only took me about 30 minutes to install. Here's to hopefully another 13+ years with this unit!