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- Monitors soil moisture levels and suspends watering when levels are sufficient for plant health or if freezing temperatures occur
- Works with most irrigation timers
- Easy to install wireless sensor ? no digging or tools required
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
toro 53812 easy installation but has a design flaw
By Don
this moisture sensor is very easy to install but has a major design problem.first how it works: you install aa batteries into the sensor unit and press it into a spot in the lawn that does not get any shade during the day. you mount the receiver next to your timer and remove the rain sensor connections and connect the moisture receiver.now using the default factory settings, below 50% moisture water is allowed.calibration: you water your lawn so the lawn is saturated well then set the receiver to run through calibrate mode, this could take 2 hrs. after the calibration is done the receiver will read about 100%.the led will be red and the next day when the SPRINKLER TIMER starts watering, the receiver will not allow the watering and the receiver reading will start to drop as the sun dries out the lawn.when the reading gets below the 50% setting the receiver led will change to green and watering will be allowed. here is where the design flaw comes in: lets say you have 8 zones and you put the sensor in zone 4 now the sun comes up and your receiver is reading 95% not allowing water. your timer is running through its program but the zones are not being water because the receiver has disabled the water (like the rain sensor would).the sun starts drying out the lawn and the receiver reading starts dropping.now remember the sensor is in zone 4... if the receiver reading drops below 50% the water is allowed now, so if the timer program is in zone 3 and the receiver reading goes below 50% the water is enabled and now part of zone 3 and all of zone 4,5,6,7,8 will get watered. the next day the receiver is reading lets say 90% no water again for the lower zones but depending on how quickly the sun dries out the lawn, some of the upper zones might get watered. The fix: this unit needs a internal clock so you can tell it when your timer starts and finishes watering so it will only change it's water/no water mode when the next timer cycle starts. NOTE: if your timer starts watering at 4AM and is done by 8AM then this is not a problem. I start my timer at 7:30AM and is done by noon. This moisture sensor is a good idea but needs a redesign.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Works well and is quite configurable to boot
By Dhiraj Bokde
I just installed this sensor in my front yard where I get the most sun on a slope. I did a lot of research on soil moisture sensors and read through the product's user guide on the toro website before I purchased this from the local orange box. I also had concerns about how this will work with a mixed layout with turf, shrubs and planters mixed in.The product is actually quite configurable, even the soil moisture can be calibrated, and trigger level configured, so it should work with any lawn's soil and moisture conditions. The only thing it won't do is fix a bad irrigation system install.So the way I have it setup to work with my Toro ECXTRA timer is as follows:1. It is installed in the driest part of my east facing front lawn on a slope. If its installed in a zone that stays moist most of the time, it will kill the dry zones. If there is such a big imbalance in moisture levels between zones, the problem is incorrect run times, or cycles in the zones. Fix that, and the sensor will work like a champ.2. It is in the first zone in my system, but I realized that it doesn't have to be. It will work in any zone in your system, as long as its not in a relatively moist zone. Contrary to what one might think, it won't stop watering other zones once the sensor zone is finished. There is a configurable (default 4 hours, max 24 hours) window for which the sensor allows watering other zones. If your system takes more than 24 hours to water all zones, maybe you are trying to water a sports field with a poorly designed homeowner grade irrigation system.3. The moisture sensing itself is quite easy, and can be tweaked easily. You must follow the instructions in the user manual to calibrate the soil moisture level. Also, make sure its installed in a representative part of the soil, i.e. don't install in a disturbed part where the soil may be more loose or packed than the rest of the lawn, as it will affect the rate at which it absorbs and looses moisture. So don't dig up the soil by installing/re-installing the sensor, like I did at first :( Clear out/shave the grass the shape of the sensor first to your desired install depth, hold the sensor parallel to the ground, and bury it in the soil in one go.The trigger level for when to allow watering (default 50%) is also configurable. So a lawn that could handle drought better could be allowed to dry out a little more, or a thirsty lawn could be re-watered more frequently.4. Currently I have hooked it up to the sensor port on my timer. I have some drip zones as well, which I may or may not want to be controlled by this sensor which is only monitoring my front lawn. Now this will work, if I 'synchronize' the moisture levels in my lawn and drip zones, by carefully calculating and programming the watering intervals for all the zones.Or I figured out that one option would be to just wire my lawn valves together to use a dedicated common, then connect it to the brown (NC) wire from the sensor, and have a separate common for all my drip zones. That way the sensor will only affect the lawns, and I could just use the timer to water the drip zones on their own schedule independent of the sensor. If I wanted to avoid watering all zones when it rains, I could either hook up a cheap rain sensor to the timer, or hook it up to the drip zones common. The other (expensive) option would be to get another moisture sensor for the drip zones, and have it wired to the common for the drip valves. It is good to have a choice. In any case, the possibilities are only limited by your willingness to spend time setting up your system right, and/or your budget.5. Finally, if you haven't figured it out already, it is critical to program the timer to water every day (except non-watering days) to dump the maximum amount of water your soil can take without runoff at 50% (watering trigger level) moisture. This way, when the sensor trips at the watering level, the timer will top off the soil within 24 hours (or the next allowed watering day) and your lawn/zones will get deep and infrequent watering.All in all, I am pretty satisfied so far. I just needed to set it up right initially, and now I can forget about adjusting schedules for seasons, rain delays, etc. and just spend more time watching the grass grow.I will try and update this review after I've used the sensor for some length of time to see how much water/effort is actually saved.
9 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent for Home Automation
By Crikee
I have this unit hooked up to my Elk M1 HA controller. I did not use a sprinkler timer anymore on my house as the Elk was more than capable. I used the 6 onboard outputs to control 6 Elk relays and the relays activate the valves. The Toro was hooked up to one of the available input zones.Toro says, the sensor only blocks irrigation but does not start irrigation. It will not adjust show long your sprinklers will run on any given day. This is true if you have it hooked up to an irrigation timer. It works differently on the Elk M1 as I can set up rules that can turn on the valves when the sensor is triggered. Basically, the Toro sensor is an NC switch so there are lots of combinations possible under the Elk M1.
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