Orbit 56854 Water Flow Hose End Water Meter Pack of 2

We RV a lot and I always am wondering how many gallons of water I added to the fresh tank on travel days or when we boondock. On travel days I like to carry 20-30 gallons to ensure we have enough for daily activities and provide a day or two of water just incase we struggle to find an open spot.The flow meter has really made the difference as I now know exactly how many gallons of water I put in the tank.

I bought one of these water flow meters for a job where I had to troubleshoot water flow through a number of geothermal heat pumps. It did help me, I used my watch and this meter to clock water flow in gallons per minute. I had to buy brass adapters to connect this in line. I first tested the accuracy using a 5 gallon bucket and a garden hose. It seemed to be accurate. It measures to one decimal place like 2.7 gallons.I left it in my truck until this fall when I reseeded my lawn. I hooked it to my garden hose next to the nozzle when I was hand watering the lawn - on the first day of use it blew apart. The plastic tube was barely glued in place internally. My water pressure on this garden hose is around 80PSI which is higher then most houses.This is because many builders used to put the front spicket on a house on street pressure which is up to 130PSI and will blow hoses and nozzle pretty quickly. The rest of the house piping is connected to a 60PSI Pressure Reducing valve (PRV). I liked the higher pressure and flow on the front hose but after ruining many hoses over 10 years I installed a 80PSI PRV on this pipe in the crawlspace so I wouldn't blow hoses but is still stronger then the standard house pressure. This ORBIT meter does NOT measure pressure or time just flow amount.I bought a replacement Orbit flow meter and hooked it at my spicket so it wouldn't get pulled around like the other end of the hose. It is working ok at 80 PSI and is helping to figure my water usage over the last 3 weeks of daily watering. I make sure to turn the faucet off after watering and draining the water pressure on the hose. It works well so far.More inforation: It is cheap plastic with an internal watch battery it seems to automatically come on when I run the water and shut off after I stop running water - to save battery. It has a garden hose threaded swivel female on the input and a male GHThread on the ouput. It shows 2 displays upper and lower on a postage stamp size lcd display one is cumulative and the other is one time (current flow) I use gallons but it believe it will measure in litres also. Orbit seems to be the same product as all the others on amazon that look like it but may be a different color.For a handy cheap flow meter it is worth having. It is cheap plastic, but it doesn't leak. The two buttons on the front are to reset the cumulative total and switch between liters and gallons.

Unfortunately the unit is simply too fragile because the plumbing bits are made of polymer, not metal. In particular the input side flange to the main body is very thin walled and not really sufficiently shear resistant for the purpose. Within hours of its 1st use the input side flange got torn off the body with only mild loads, completely destroying the unit. It is difficult to reinforce at this location without decreasing the lumen and/or having a large change in wall thickness (which would make molding more difficult) so I have some sympathy for the designer, but really using a polymer for the fittings, even a tough glass-filled one, is basically not fit for purpose.For a fixed service, like with a nearby anchored spool or fixed watering system (which was my original application) it is likely fine if you are careful. However with a normal garden hose and its associated transient high loads when you are dragging it around the yard it will very rapidly be broken unless robustly strain-relieved.Otherwise the water flow measurement part works fine. Supports litres and gallons, two counts with independent resets and single decimal place (100 ml or 16 fl oz resolution - not clear if it integrates internally at higher resolution, the mechanism is an axial-flow turbine with magnetic read-out). Wakes upon flow or button push. Transreflective LCD without back-light, lithium battery in a holder with a good o-ring seal, battery should last a long time, standby power seems minuscule. Almost certainly will not tolerate freezing for both the battery and LCD, if not the water expansion.It does restrict the flow a little bit, but probably not significantly for most applications. You can hear the turbulence and vibration of the turbine bearings at high flow rates. I didn't measure the pressure drop across it, or its accuracy because it broke before I had a chance to do so.

I really like this gauge, but I have broken 3 of them now. Today I bumped one, I thought rather softly, and it snapped off the inlet side. Make this thing stronger and it would be a 5 star review.

Definition - shocking a well: adding chlorine bleach after the pump was pulled, the purpose of which is to kill bacteria that may have been introducedWe had to shock our well as part of a project to get us more water. Of course, this is followed by a period of alternatively flushing the well and letting it recover over at least a day, in order to reduce the chlorine concentration until it is at safe levels. Since we knew how much water was in our well (how many feet of water times 1.5 gallons per foot), using this device was MUCH more accurate than just running the pump for a set period of minutes each time. Though it was by far the least expensive part of the project I personally think it made the whole process a lot easier to deal with and was a great tool in boosting my confidence that I'd not run the well dry - consequently burning out the pump (water keeps it cool).Is it cheap plastic? Yup, so don't abuse it or purchase it thinking it's a pro-grade tool.Is the display tiny? Yup, but still sufficient and easy enough to read.Are the buttons marked? Nope, so read the little pamphlet it came with or experiment - there are two buttons. How hard can it be.I'd definitely buy it again.

USE IT TO PUT WATER TO MY MOTORHOME. LOOK AT THE FLOW METER AND MY WATCH FOR 2 GALLONS KNOW HOW LONG TO TAKE ON 60 GALLONS.

The Orbit Water Flow Hose End Water Meter is easy to use and works pretty good; however it's not 100% accurate, I found it to be shy between 3 and 5 gallons. If you want 100% you will have to pay out the top dollar for it. Would I recommend this, absolutely for the dollar mark it's a good product.

Broke on installation, too weak, you can't tighten it enough it leaks. Not recommended.

The meter measured 182 gallons to fill a 50 gallon tank. No where near accurate enough for any purpose whatsoever.

I use it when filling the RV to calculate how full our other tanks are. The one is resetable and gal or li.

Works good, just don't pull on the hose very hard, the thread on part will come off.