Galcon BT 4+

The idea behind the app is amazing there are certain things that are just too clunky when using it though like when I have a zone I’d like to find so I can see its schedule and it’s too hard to find without a search bar. Also, the app doesn’t present the timing of the zones in a very friendly way.

This is my third Galcon timer, due to it’s ’timing in seconds’ feature that allows me to run my nursery’s misting system for 5 seconds every five minutes from 9am to 5pm. I’ve been using them for four years in my small commercial nursery.

The first timer lasted almost 3 years before dying. The second was a factory replacement because the first one died while under warranty. Had it 6 months when an employee left it in a location where it got dunked in water and died. So I upgraded to the six zone timer with Bluetooth this spring. I use these timers from April thru September and then store them inside over the winter.

For all y’all complaining about the app, clearly you have never programmed the timer by hand. I dread programming this timer or changing settings by hand. It’s just a small screen and hard to find the settings I need. Compared to that, the app is fantastic! I had four zones and multiple start times programmed in about five minutes. Do I care that I have to be standing in front of the timer to connect? Heck no. I need to be looking at my manifold and valve labels to remember which valve controls which zone anyways. For the commercial grower, this works great. It was also easy to manually trigger a zone from the app to run for 2 minutes, giving me ample time to verify that I had my sprinklers set correctly. Never had to walk back to the timer to turn that zone off when I was done.

The whole idea of having a blue tooth timer is to be able to turn the program on or off or to turn it on for an extra run. The only consistency is it’s failure to connect. ☹️☹️☹️