Solar Automatic Drip Irrigation Kit System, JIYANG Solar Powered Auto Easy DIY Watering Device Supported Pots Plants, 6 Timing Modes with Anti-Siphoning Device (Supported 10 Pots, 6Timing Modes)

Year 2 update: Working great. Left on vacation for a couple of weeks. I live on a property with a lot of mature trees. Direct sunlight to the solar panel is about 4-5 hours daily. If it's sunny. According to weatherunderground.com, we had about 25% clouds, which DID include some rain. Because the predicted weather was no rain, I chose twice a day watering before I left. The unit was verifiably pumping water (after 2 weeks away) when I got home. I'm very satisfied.Last year's review -- This system does exactly what it says it will. It's very reasonably priced. So I give it 5 stars. I do wish it had some additional features, though. So far, it's been working fine for 5 days. See pics for setup.Simple system -- Solar-powered pump plus water distribution lines & fittings. Nice. Quite easy to set up but the directions are not very clear – a translation thing, I think -- and the print size is microscopic (hey I'm a senior citizen; have mercy). But if you understand the overall concept, you'll be fine. I see a few reviews that complain about draining the reservoir, but this shouldn't happen if the water supply reservoir is BELOW the pump and plants, which the directions DO specify (otherwise the water will just siphon out from the reservoir into the plants).I'd like to be able to tell how much charge the battery has at any given time -- so I can experiment with different charging locations. Does it need bright sunlight? Will it charge adequately -- or at all -- on a cloudy day? (Currently under evaluation) Year 2 update -- works fine in my partial sun situation - see above.I wish this system had more variable times and amount deliveries. But the features are 5, 15 or 20 minutes either once a day or twice a day (5 minutes once a day is MORE than enough for my situation). The directions say that the pump delivers about 400 ml/minute, which THE DIRECTIONS also equate to 8 ounces (I'm assuming this is US fluid ounces but Imperial isn't that much different). Well, my conversion tells me 400 ml = 13.5 US fluid ounces (NOT 8 ounces). OK -- so this means if it runs for 5 minutes, it should deliver 2 liters or 68 US fluid ounces -- which I verified as reasonably accurate by collecting the total output a couple of times in a kitchen measuring cup. So then this total amount will be divided by the number of plants that you have -- and each plant gets roughly the same amount of water. It's difficult to get less water into a single plant unless you add more plants -- but you can multiply the amount to a single plant by running several drip lines into it.I wish it would allow me to disable the beeping function when the reservoir is empty. (Year 2 update - It beeps after it shuts off, but doesn't continue. Verdict - satisfactory)Lastly -- make sure you're ready for water OVERFLOW because it waters each plant on your chosen schedule whether it rains or not. I don't think I'd ever try this inside and risk flooding by over-watering unless I had my plants set to drain over a tank that was as big as my water supply. Even for outside, I put my smaller two plants on a tray that drains to the ground (through some wider tubing than what is supplied with this system). Otherwise, any water overage would either spill onto the deck or keep the plants sitting in water (not good for my plants, anyway).

This is a great little pump that performs well at an unbeatable price. I have 13 pots (shown), but the 4 top planters probably count as 2 pots each, so let’s say 17 pots. I thought I’d need 2 pumps (which I did order), but so far 1 pump seems to handle all with 26 drippers total (8 drippers per top planter to evenly disperse water to herbs and flowers, and some of the bottom planters have 2). The last few drippers in the line emit a little less because I’m definitely towing the line with number of drippers for a single pump 😂Installation was easy but maybe a little time consuming (not a big deal, it was fun!)- I found it much easier to fit the connectors in the tubing during warm 80 degree weather (and having a bowl of hot water helped!)While the plants were small I found I only needed 5 min / 2x a day. Unfortunately, there is no 10 minute option (big bummer because that would have been perfect right now), but I can tell I’m going to need to ramp up to the 15 minute / 2x per day option soon. In this in-between period I have to manually turn off/on the pump to give them an extra 5 min/day.I purchased a food-safe 15 gal drinking water barrel to hold the water. It lasts a couple weeks with 5 min / 2x day option, but we’ll see with the 15 min option.One problem I had during my initial installation was an issue with the system draining my water barrel via siphoning after a watering. See photo- I had the tube going from the pump to a plant on the ground first. I switched it up so the planter up top (above the water barrel) is now first in line and there are no more siphons issues. The pump has no check valve to prevent this.My porch is west facing and can get HOT (80-110 degrees normally). A few hours late on watering can mean damaged plants- so glad I found this!Note that the drippers seem to emit too much for small 1-2 gallon pots (2x day/5 min), but I’ll try again once those plants get taller/more thirsty.In summary, despite no 10 min/2x per day option, and the easily solvable siphoning issue, this is a great little solar water pump that will save your plants and water 😁

Our system has been installed for about 5 months. I used this system to water a set of 5 modest "window boxes", each of which is about 18-20" long. Its important to note that this system does not spray on top of the soil but delivers water via a stake directly underground. So the stakes have to be placed within the root ball of the plant for it to receive useful amounts of water.The pump is designed to come on for a fixed 15 minute period so many times per day. We found that watering and saturating the flower box first by hand and then maintaining moisture in the box with this pump system once a day allows a 5 gallon container to supply water for about 10 days before it is empty.The system has a water present sensor that is designed to prevent the pump from running dry when water runs out but I found that at least in my container the sensor was indicating water available but there was too little of it to actually be pumped out. The pump made a beeping noise similar to many car lock beeps to indicate that water was needed.This little system will handle a 5-6 flower pots / window boxes and do a great job. However, if pots are watered just once a day in hot 85 degree days the pots will dry out. In very warm or hot locations it will not keep up unless it is watering multiple times per day. Programming the system to water the desired number of times is easily done. Just realize that if it is running 2-3 times a day it will go through a 5 gallon tank in just 3-4 days.The pump and solar cell system is about 5" on a side so it does not detract too much from your deck / patio etc. This was a very slick little system and it worked well and has been reliable.