- Scarecrow motion-activated sprinkler for humane animal deterrence
- Detects and sprays animals in a 1,000 square foot area day and night
- Lightweight plastic shaft; metal sprinkler head
- Includes sprinkler, mount, and motion detector; 9-volt battery not included
- 2-year limited warranty
Amazon.com Product Description
The Contech Electronics Scarecrow Motion-Activated Sprinkler presents an innovative, humane way to keep pets and wildlife from disturbing your yard and garden without the use of complicated traps or potentially hazardous chemicals. The sprinkler combines a surprise spray of water with unexpected motion and noise to create a safe, effective deterrent to unwanted visitors, helping keep your garden looking its best.
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One Scarecrow can cover up to 1000 sq.ft. View larger. |
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The Scarecrow protects your garden without using any hazardous chemicals. View larger. |
Safe, Humane Deterrent Helps Protect Your Garden
A huge amount of time and energy goes into keeping your yard and garden looking great, so it’s only natural that you want to protect them from damage caused by hungry wildlife or local dogs and cats. But there are lots of reasons to avoid chemical deterrents, traps, and hazardous electric fences.
Whether you’re a dedicated organic vegetable gardener or a parent looking out for the health of children and pets that play in your yard, you’ll appreciate the simple, innovative, and effective water-based concept behind the Scarecrow Motion-Activated Sprinkler. It’s also a great choice for neighborhoods where fences are prohibited and for people who consider wire fences and other visual barriers unappealing.
When the ScareCrow detects an animal it instantly releases a short but startling burst of water. The sudden spray of water and the movement and noise of the sprinkler scares animals away. Animals associate this negative experience with the area and avoid your yard in the future.
Versatile and Broad-Reaching for Maximum Effectiveness
The Scarecrow is versatile enough to keep deer, rabbits, and other foragers from snacking on plants and bulbs, to prevent dogs from digging up newly seeded lawns, to keep the cat from using your garden as a litter box, and to scare predators like herons and raccoons away from your fish pond.
The ScareCrow’s motion detector is powerful enough to guard an area up to 1000 square feet of coverage with a single sprinkler. For added coverage, Scarecrow sprinklers can be linked in series to guard larger spaces.
Efficient Design and Easy to Set Up
Setting the Scarecrow up is fast and easy, and doesn’t require any special tools. Simply install a standard 9-volt battery, connect the sprinkler to your hose, push the 17-inch stake into ground to secure the unit, and set the adjustable sprinkler arc to cover the area you want protected.
What’s in the Box
Scarecrow Motion-Activated Sprinkler
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5 Responses
I bought this off of Amazon site, paid extra for quicker shipping, unit arrives, follow direction carefully for setting up. Installed and turned on water. Water starts coming out of sprinker head as soon as you turn it on. Motion sensor seems to work fine, sprinker shoots water when sensor activated, but after 3 second burst, water is still pouring out of sprinkler head, it never stops, even when sensor set to 0 and shut off, water still pours out of sprinkler head. The water shut off valve that the sensor controls does not shut off all the way, whether the unit is on, off, battery pulled out, water still pours out the sprinkler head. Very disappointed, after spending xtra $$ in shipping. Isn’t there any Quality Control, this is an obvious problem that would have been caught had it went throught quality control. I will be posting on every board I can find for this product.
Rating: 1 / 5
Posted on January 31st, 2010 at 6:00 am
Ground hogs ate my shrubs right in front of device despite sensitivity on max!!! Goes off for no reason other times.
Rating: 1 / 5
Posted on January 31st, 2010 at 7:40 am
Haven’t been able to try the unit yet on account its snowing however all looks good.
Rating: 4 / 5
Posted on January 31st, 2010 at 9:34 am
I am a little confused about how this ended up so well rated. I have now owned this for two years and pretty much just have to declare it utterly useless, oh and expensive. It just plain doesn’t work against squirrels or birds, which was my primary intention for it. One of the issues is that of course it has no way to tell if it is a critter climbing around or a branch is just being blown around in the wind. It has a sensitivity setting and if you turn it down so that it does not respond to a little wind then it will also not respond to a squirrel or a bird. Contrarily if you turn the sensitivity setting high it goes off A LOT and hence it can waste A LOT of water just because the wind is blowing a little. I literally just witnessed it go off a dozen times in a couple minutes because the wind is blowing a little and then a flock of birds moving in and using the water to bathe with while it just sat there and did nothing. Seriously, A FLOCK of birds though they were small birds I guess…:(
Why two stars? Well it has gotten some serious laughs when I or some unsuspecting friend goes accidentally walking in front of it forgetting it is on, so I am giving it two stars for comical value. Also, I could see it working for larger animals like deer, monsters, etc.
It’s too bad you can’t override it and make it just a sprinkler because it does have some good range. Anyone know how to do this?
Rating: 2 / 5
Posted on January 31st, 2010 at 11:25 am
The connection for the hose was so cheap it never got a seal so just leaked when the water was turned on – rendering it pretty much unusable.
Rating: 1 / 5
Posted on January 31st, 2010 at 1:16 pm
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