Melnor 3900H Heavy Duty Metal Pulsating Sprinkler
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Product Feature
- Pulsating sprinkler built of noncorrosive, all-metal parts
- Adjusts to water anywhere between 30 and a full 360 degrees; sturdy metal base resists tipping
- Withstands harsh weather conditions with durable steel base and brass sprinkler apparatus
- Covers a maximum radius of 50 feet or 7850 square feet in a circular shape
- Backed by a lifetime limited warranty
Product Description
If you're looking for a serious sprinkler you can still count on 10 years from now, try this pulsating sprinkler from the Melnor Heritage line. It is built of durable, non corrosive, all-metal parts and is guaranteed by Melnor for as long as you own your home. The base is constructed of durable steel, heavily coated and sealed in black enamel. The hose coupling and sprinkler apparatus are made of brass, a metal known to hold up indefinitely to weather. This model covers a maximum radius of 50 feet, or 7,850 square feet in a circular shape. The sprinkler adjusts to water anywhere between 30 degrees to a full 360 degrees. You can lower the stream to cut spray radius down for smaller watering jobs. With this capacity and versatility, you should be able to cover most yard sizes and shapes in just a couple of passes. If you've got a large yard and plan on keeping it green for a long time to come, this sprinkler is worth considering. It is backed by a lifetime limited warranty.Melnor 3900H Heavy Duty Metal Pulsating Sprinkler Review
My expectations of a new sprinkler: (1) Do a good job watering my grass. (2) Be quick and easy to position and adjust. Is that so much to ask? The Melnor 3900 fails on both counts.Pros:
> Can throw water an impressive distance.
> Reasonably priced compared to a lot of other sprinklers.
Cons:
> You can either throw water clear into the next county, or you can throw it just a few feet. There's really nothing in between.
> The directions say that to control the distance of water throw, turn down the faucet. This did not work. Turning the faucet down low enough to affect how far the sprinkler shot caused the pulsating action to stop.
> Another suggested method for adjusting distance is to position a flap on the sprinkler to intersect the water stream. This helps, but it reduces the distance too much, causes water to shoot out to the side, and makes the sprinkler noisy. It is also very hard to adjust the flap; it has to be done with the water running (or you'll be running back and forth a dozen times to the faucet), which is a wet proposition.
> The sprinkler has to be assembled, which is just a matter of screwing the upright post into the base, but the admonition to not make it too tight is a little vague. I was afraid of stripping the screws or overcompressing the gasket or...something.
> Admittedly, this is not a terribly complicated sprinkler, but the directions are only printed on the box. If you want to save the directions to remember what that pin thing is for, you'll have to save the box.
> The adjustment clips for controlling how much of a circle the sprinkler covers are a little hard to turn, especially if you're trying to do it on the fly with the sprinkler running.
> Water shoots out all over the place, and this isn't because of leaking; it's just a poor design. If you want to set the sprinkler in a corner, for example, and set the clips for a right angle, you can do that, but you'll have this little path of overspray that exceeds your angle. You can account for that in setting the clips, but the overspray only goes about 10 feet, so then the area beyond that wouldn't be covered. As the sprinkler pulsates, it squirts a fair amount of water out to the side, too. When I set the sprinkler in a corner of my lawn, I came out later to find water running down the street just from that.
> The area of grass under the impressive arc doesn't actually get much water, just a little blow back. You get pretty good coverage right next to the sprinkler and at the end of the arc, but elsewhere, you're just misting the grass.
I was a little surprised to be so disappointed with this sprinkler after the mostly positive reviews it has received, but clearly different people have different expectations. The Melnor 3900 didn't meet mine. I'll be sending it back.
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