Vigoro 3015V Sprinkler Timer Internals and Valve Design
I noticed a lot of interest in my sprinkler timer review post and I wanted to expand on that a bit. In this post I’ll tear apart the Vigoro 3015V Sprinkler Timer and see what inside of it and makes it work. This timer has worked reliably for me, but I switched to the Orbit […]
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Tags: disassemble, grass, Lawn, sprinkler, watering
Another Scott’s PatchMaster Performance Update
The Scott’s PatchMaster I put down a while back has been doing well so far. It grew in pretty fast and has just been thickening up. It has now been mowed quite a few times. We started mowing when it ‘looked decent’ and have just kept mowing it as part of the normal yard. It’s […]
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Tags: grass, grass seed, Lawn, patchmaster, seed, sprinkler, Topsoil
Some Options for Sprinkler Timers
Having had to grow a new lawn in 2 areas covering around 2000sq ft we really needed some sort of sprinkler timer system. I had actually spent some time searching online to see what it would take to put an in-ground system in at one point. Although most of the components are extremely price friendly, […]
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Tags: Electronics, Lawn, Orbit, sprinkler, Vigoro
Sprinkler Modding
A few weeks ago I bought some Nelson Square Spray sprinklers for the lawn, but they were terrible and I had this urge to mod and fix them. I replaced these with some better sprinklers for the yard, but the square spray sprinklers may come in handy at some point. They have a top spinner […]
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Tags: bearing, epoxy, mod, nelson, spinner, sprinkler, square spray