Orbit Yard Enforcer Motion-Activated Sprinkler 62100

I put this together (frankly, it’s in a lot of pieces and requires more assembly than it should) and I used silicone faucet cartridge assembly type grease on all the seals and assembly points. It has not leaked a drop. The plastics are not great quality, so do yourself a favor and use the silicone grease, any hardware store has it. It is very sensitive, and has a wide arc/range- you don’t have to be anywhere near the front to trigger it. I think it’s 80 degrees or so. When it fires, it will splatter you even if you are behind it. Because it apparently needs to sense both heat and movement, such as with a moving critter, it does not fire with waving branches on a breezy day, and that’s very good- my yard is full of things that move in the wind. The intact Tom cat who has drenched my pool screens with foul-smelling pee nightly for months (as well as screaming and howling at 3am routinely right outside my bedroom window) got a face full of water and hit my wooden fence scrambling to escape with enough force that it sounded like an adult person climbing over. He made one more attempt the next night with similar results. I left it up a week and now set it only periodically just in case. The cat has not been back, nor am I hearing the howling in nearby yards, so I assume he was sufficiently impressed to choose new territory. Make sure your hose is durable - cracking the tap just a little does NOT limit pressure, only flow. If your house has high pressure such as mine (pool pressure) buy a reducer. A burst hose at 1am that you don’t find for 8 hours will lose a lot of water. Having the tap on less than full will reduce what you lose if it bursts, but again, simple physics dictate that it won’t reduce the pressure and make a burst hose less likely. Make sure the tap is on enough that you get a good strong and long firing- you want distance since the sensor will pick up the critter quite a ways from the unit. A good soaking is most likely to help the critter find another yard to prowl, rather than water that doesn’t reach them at all and just makes a lot of noise. If you are looking for an intact male cat to ruin your screen enclosure and wake you at 3am, I no longer have one to loan you.

We bought a Yard Enforcer from Amazon about three weeks ago, and have been very pleased with it. We decided to give it a try, because our little cat likes to perch on the bedroom window sill at night, and check out the side yard that is illuminated by a street light. Unfortunately, on a fairly regular basis, she had been receiving nocturnal visitors (cats, raccoons, the occasional dog) around 3:00 AM or so, resulting in her getting agitated and waking my wife up. (I know what animals have been there, based on the tracks I found in the bare dirt I'd had spread over the yard during recent landscaping, as well as a couple of opportune sightings from the other bedroom window). This had been happening about twice a week; maybe more. Since installing the Yard Enforcer three weeks ago, there has not been one single episode of any animal getting close to the window and getting our kitty stirred up. I don't have an outdoor camera so I cannot conclusively state the Enforcer has run the visitors off, but given the fact that we've gone from at least two disturbances a week to absolute zero, I think the Enforcer is doing its job. (I can state with absolute certainty it has sprayed ME on those occasions when I've wandered too close to it when it was activated, even though I thought I was too far away / out of its 120 degree range of view. If it can detect me simply waving my hand at it from a distance 30 feet, it should be able to see a large cat at 5-6 feet.) The device is powered by four AA batteries. It has knobs to adjust the duration of the water spraying, as well as the sensitivity of the motion sensor (less sensitive for large animals like deer, more sensitive for cats and rats etc.). It also has a control knob so it can be used all the time, night only, day only, or turned completely off. It was easy to assemble, and easy to place in the yard. The only minor gripes I have is that I wish it was of brass and metal construction instead of plastic (especially the sprinkler head), but given that at most it goes off for a few seconds every night or so (or even less, once the neighborhood transient animals have been "trained" they will be sprayed), the plastic should be good enough. (I should also note that if it was made of solid brass, it would have to be much more expensive, which might make it too pricey for a lot of folks). The other concern I have is that it has only one single, relatively short, anchoring stake to push into the ground. The single stake does make it very to move the device when mowing the yard, but I would personally prefer a more stable system. To be fair, it has not moved or toppled over even after it's sprayed water several times, but if I'd been designing it I'd have given it a better mount (longer single stake, tripod spikes that went into the ground, or maybe even a large heavy metal ring it was screwed into, like a sprinkler base). My tendency to over-engineer things notwithstanding, the Yard Enforcer does what it is supposed to do, and has completely eliminated our cat's alarms in the wee hours of the morning. If you have deer, raccoons, dogs, cats, possums, or other animals that are causing trouble in your yard, I definitely recommend you give the Yard Enforcer a try.

We have had our yard enforcer for over four months now. It works great for keeping our neighbour’s cat from visiting and pooping in our yards but after four months it’s started to leak. Seller would you help get in touch so we can fix this? Thanks.

Le branchement à l’arrivée d’eau n’est pas étanche ! La pièce a du jeu derrière le joint malgré un serrage au maximum. Impossible à utiliser !

sehr guter Sprenger wenn er nicht so oft angehen würde. Nachtrag: Am 24.04.2022 gekauft und jetzt schon defekt!!! (01.12.2022)

Little difficult to work out. Needed a particular thread joiner from bunnings so the hose would connect to it, cost $2. Doesnt leak and stops the dog pooping on the back pavers, it is worth its weight in gold, love it.

We have been having problems for years with cats using our garden as their personal toilet. We had at least five different cats use our garden and we had tried everything from pepper to cat sprays we even got three metal cat figures with marble eyes which are meant to scare cats away nothing seemed to work. We have three small children so we do need to be careful what we use and we did not want anything to hurt the cats, but we had enough, one morning my husband cleaned 30 cats poo off our lawn that was one days worth and the final straw. I saw this product and at first I was concerned as its quite alot of money to spend but we were at the end of our tether with the cats that had taken over our garden, we want somewhere where our children can play without the worry of them stepping into cats poo. The orbital yard enforcer is absolutely fabulous I cannot recommend this enough. My husband put it together without any problems and he used the connectors provided which were fine we live in the UK and this product is produced in the US but we did not have any issues connecting it to our hose so I am unsure why some people have had problems we did not have any. It is motion sensed so as soon as a cat steps into our garden it is triggered off and sprays, I love it we have our garden back, just after one day it is completely poo free and cat free and the kids think its amazing running though the sprinkler in the summer I just need to remember to switch it off when I want to put my washing out. So if you are worried about spending out so much money I would definitely say it is worth every penny it I a solid and sturdy sprayer. I am more then pleased with is.