Using a Gardena Water Control, your garden can be reliably and conveniently watered even if you are not at home, you obtain more leisure time, have a lush green lawn and also beautiful, healthy plants If the automatic irrigation system is started in the early morning hours or the evenings, less water evaporates, this saves money and ensures targeted, optimized irrigation The Water Control Master can easily be adjusted using a rotary and push switch for selection of the data and for confirmation and it has an easily-legible LC display shows all settings at a glance The weatherproof operating unit can be removed to carry out the settings, with an optional key lock, inadvertent adjustment of the settings can be prevented The 6 independent schedules can be created for irrigation purposes, the start, duration and weekdays of the irrigation can also be adjusted Highly flexible plans can be set according to your personal tastes, plant connoisseurs use this for additional pre-watering which prepares the soil and roots for the later, main irrigation, this garden apparatus improves the water absorption and plant growth If the weather changes, the watering duration can be reduced centrally in 10% steps or the irrigation can be stopped during a phase of bad weather for 1 to 7 days If the irrigation has to be started immediately, this can be manually activated without removing the unit from the tap or changing the settings The Water Control Master always works reliably due to the ‘Safe Stop’ technology, if the energy levels of the battery are too low to completely control an irrigation process, then this process is not commenced The battery level indication in the display also tells you when the battery has to be replaced It has a watering duration of 1 min – 4 hours, powered by 1 x 9 V alkaline battery (not included) Has a sensor connection, minimum operating pressure of 0.5 Bar, maximum operating pressure of 12 Bar and suited for taps with 26.5 mm (G 3/4) and 33.3 mm (G1) thread