Orbit 62034 — Mechanical Hose Faucet Timer (Battery-Free)

What is it and what's it for?

Think of it as a kitchen timer for your faucet: you wind the dial to the time you want (15 to 120 minutes), it screws directly onto any standard garden hose faucet, and once that time is up it shuts the water off on its own — no batteries, no electronics, nothing to wire up.

Real-world use cases

• At home: You leave for a long weekend and leave the hose or drip kit connected with the timer set to 60 minutes: the yard gets watered once and the water shuts off by itself, with no one needing to be there to close it or remember to do so.
• In a business or workshop: A parks maintenance crew or a nursery uses it to water a specific bed during the workday without having to send someone back later to close the faucet by hand once the cycle ends.

How to avoid buying the wrong one

• It's single-cycle: turn the dial, it waters for that time, then shuts off — it doesn't repeat the schedule every day on its own, you have to rewind it for the next watering.
• It's single-outlet (one faucet), it doesn't replace a multi-zone controller — if you need to automate more than one point or a real daily schedule, a kit with a digital timer (like the HEKIWAY in this ranking) or a WiFi controller is the better fit.
• Confirm your faucet has standard garden hose thread (GHT) — it's not built for pipe thread (FPT/MPT) like the solenoid valves in this catalog.