judith wrote:

I do not think the problem is necessarily with the timer - when I
first bought my Gardena irrigation system (quite a few years ago)
there was a pressure control until which went between the tap and the
drippers. I have now added a timer so I have:

tap----timer-----pressure controller------drippers

and it works very well.

I have used a couple of different makes of pressure reducer (Gardena and
Hozelock) and both of them tended to leak from the bleed valve. Both leaked
worse when the initial kick came as the timers switched on. Maybe I was
just unlucky. What experiences have others had with pressure reducers?
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Jeff
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