Orbit 56805 Precision Arc Gear Drive Sprinkler with Adjustable Knobs, Gray

I had my doubts after reading all the bad reviews but I bought it anyway. It works great but it was tricky to set it up.

The other reviews are right. This orbital sprinkler blows past the stops. I had hoped that it works since other Orbital sprinkler models are really good. It also leaks like a sieve. I bought 2 and while 1 is better than the other it is not good. Only sprayed about 20 feet vs. Up to 30 feet listed on package.

After wrestling with a couple of new Orbit 56805 Precision Arc Gear Drive Sprinklers, having them blowing past the stops, getting stuck in one spot, dragging the adjustment knobs out of position, and generally not doing anything I'd set them to do, I started ruling out the units themselves by carefully inspecting them for damage (there was none), signs of prior use (no signs -- they were brand-new), me not following adjustment directions (I was -- triple-checked!). This left the water pressure itself.I determined the hose bibs are fed from the mainline with no regulation, only reduction in pipe diameter. I got a pressure gauge and tested the mainline pressure to my home, which is a whopping 200+ PSI! My internal house pressure goes through a regulator that caps it at 80 PSI, but the hose bibs are NOT regulated, and are putting out nearly 100 PSI. This Orbit sprinkler has some fine print at the end of the booklet that mentions operating PSI is 20 - 70. I bought an RV-style hose-bib pressure regulator that reduced the pressure to 50 PSI, and now this Orbit sprinkler is working perfectly.I added some ultra-fine mesh hose filters to the sprinkler step spike to keep any grit from damaging the all-plastic internals, and we're good to go! What an adventure in detective work this has been! Would I buy one again? Honestly, I'm not sure in part because of the higher price I paid, and because the range isn't great at 50 PSI, and there's very little range adjustment in the unit. I'd probably opt for the Orbit H2O unit, instead, or get a Hunter MP rotator on a spike. But, for now, it's working as expected and I'll keep it.

We bought 5 of these last year when we moved into our house. The concept is great but the build quality suck. They are not a complete disaster but they are riddled with issues and because of that they are way overpriced.You are basically paying to be a beta tester.They leak. The stops don't always work and they seem to break easy. Basically they just stop working and will go through their full range of motion no matter where the stops are set.The plastic spikes on the base warp and break over time. To be fair our yard is pretty rocky and more clay than soil but still a metal base would be better. A metal base would be a great upgrade for v 2.0The one good thing about these sprinklers is the ability to select a variable coverage pattern. With the provided key you loosen or tighten the flow controls and dial in the stream you want at each point in the sprinklers rotation.At one point the water shoots farther out and then at another it can switch to a shorter stream avoid your porch or mail box or whatever and then it can switch back to a longer stream to reach into the yard. Its great. But it's all being performed by a poorly constructed shell.For what it's worth I was able to connect 4 of these sprinklers over a run of about 200-ish feet of hose and maintained decent water pressure so I could cover the yard. Thats most likely a nod to our water pressure more than the sprinkler itself but nothing in the sprinkler interfered. It wasn't till we added a timer to the water source that we lost usable water pressure. So we took that out of the chain.We are setting up our yard now for summer and breaking out the 5 sprinklers we got last year. So far one of them no longer stops reliably.I'm expecting to hav eco replace them with more traditional sprinklers.I haven't seen anything that does what these do so as it is the crappy build quality is what it is. They work but they are junk and can quickly not work so they should definitely be cheaper.So get a few if you need the variable stream control. If you get ones that work-ish then you will probably be happy enough but also annoyed by one of their several flaws. Return what doesn't work and write an honest review and let Orbit know they have a good product on their hands that would be great if they just made it out of better materials.I'd happily buy 5 more of these if they were made of metal and had stops that consistently worked and didn't leak.

I was super excited to try this out. Bought before watering season so it sat in the garage for a month before use. Actually was so confident i purchased another unit at Lowes when i saw it there for 5 bucks cheaper. I was quickly disappointed over the weekend when setting this up. Maxed out it sprayed maybe 10 feet of water and it also has no regard for the stopping points and wanted to go 360 degrees no matter what. I then tried the unit i purchased from lowes that had slightly different packaging hoping for a better result. This time it actually obeys the stopping points and was able to spray further, maybe 15 to 20 feet which is much more acceptable. its not a water pressure issue as i have a different orbit sprinkler that is able to reach 30 feet easily.It's a fantastic idea that i think still needs some tweaking. If you get a good working unit you will probably be happy. But, it seems like there might be too many parts on the inside that lower the quality control.Proceed with caution.

You have to follow the instructions correctly and make sure you're adjusting the correct side. Be careful not to bump it or it may become unaligned. Once it's set up though it works great and allows for maximum customization of watering zones.

I built my own programable "hybrid" sprinkler system for my front lawn and back yard and although I used different sprinklers for the other 7 placements, I needed this one for a specialized area whereas I needed adjustable distances for each pass. This sprinkler was the bomb! I used it for a full season without a problem and it worked perfectly for what I needed. My only issue is I can't find these sprinklers anywhere now! WHY? Never mind, I just found them again. :)

This sprays leaks of water either side of ‘Swivel Inlet’ the Orbit Precision Arc, which wastes water, lowers pressure and flow rate of the sprinkler and got me soaking wet.I have a variety of hose connectors. They all work fine and don’t leak.The problem is with the Orbit swivel inlet and maybe not being able to connect to it but the seller doesn’t respond to request for help so I don’t know if there can be a better connector.I contacted the Amazon seller about this and they haven’t responded.I contacted Obit via social media and they don’t care and don’t want to know.I wonder if maybe it’s for a US style hose with a threaded screw on the end but I’ve seen YouTube videos of people in the US having problems with leaks too.I contacted Orbit too but they say it’s not their problem and don’t want to find out or advise about this problem.So, do not waste your money or time on this sprinkler (unless you’re in the US with a US hose that has different threads on the end of it and find it doesn’t leak so much but even then it’ll probably leak as the swivel inlet still wobbles.

The way it is supposed to work is that you adjust the knobs opposite to the direction of spray to control the spray distance on the other side.However the panel holding the knobs itself started spinning as the spray heads spun effectively turning it into a sprayer that sprays only for one distance.Really disappointed

diffciult to set up , must read instruction carfully , be careful not to over turn the dial they will break

My yard is in rectangle shape 32" x 26".With 65psi, it reaches far more than 18" in radius.The variation of projection distance works and it's great.After an hour of trial and error, here are the problems:1) It doesn't go 360 degree. It turns back about 350".2) The distance tuning ring is not supposed to rotate alongside with the nozzle, but it did eventually. That means the length setting is not in use anymore.3) While every ring rotate together which means failure, there's no way to reset it.So close to be a perfect sprinkler ...I hope there will be a version 2 in the future and fix these problems.