Solar Automatic Drip Irrigation Kit System, JIYANG Solar Powered Auto Easy DIY Watering Device Supported Pots Plants, 12 Timing Modes with Anti-Siphoning Device (Supported 20-30 Pots, 12Timing 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 😁

Great little system. Been using about 45 days now. Solar powered seems to be holding up. If you are mechanically inclined you will be able to get this system to work well for you.Instructions are lacking, for sure.-The more lines you run, the less each line puts out.-pump needs to be above reservoir, which you supply; get creative. I’m using a Home Depot 35gallon tote (which, at 2/3 or so full, was extremely difficult to move around my patio). At first, I had it up on a table and decided the safer thing would be to move it to the ground, which necessitated moving all of my pots to different levels as well. The tote was not designed to hold that much water. I drilled two small holes in the totes lid for the water low level monitor sensor line and for the input hose, so minimal water evaporates from the reservoir.-reservoir should be around the same level of your plants, or lower.-you supply a reservoir - Math out the usage rate at each of the six settings to see how much water you will use each day.- YOU HAVE TO PRIME THE INPUT LINE TO THE PUMP. This isn’t in instructions anywhere. I followed their instructions to the “T” and even had to reach out to support who couldn’t help me. The pump on arrival gave me “I am clogged” indications and noises(it’s in the instructions). After half a day of struggling of trying to figure out how to save my plants because I was about to go on a 14 day vacation, I had an idea to pull the water up the input line and connect it directly to the pump unit on the solar panel. I prayed that it would work and turned the unit on, and it immediately started working once it was primed. No more beeps, lights and cavitation sound of an empty running pump.Minus one star for having to figure that all out on my own even with asking support for help, but it was a good value system that does exactly what I need it to do.