Rain BirdPGA Inline/Angle Valve with Flow Control 1 in. FPT | 100-PGA

It was a replacement for a leaking valve. I didn’t feel like taking the old plumbing apart, so I just replaced the valve portion, but it is exactly what it says. It is in the description and shipped and arrived quickly.

Great product, works exactly as it should. I needed to replace a diaphragm on a valve that must be 15 years old or maybe even older, and it was only about a dollar more to buy an entirely new valve instead of buying just the diaphragm.Watch out though, the picture shown on Amazon as of the date of this writing doesn't match the product. The 100-PGA only has 6 screws on the top, but the picture shown here has 12 screws. The flow control valve is also a bit different of a design than what is pictured. I think a 200-PGA is pictured here, but rest assured that you will receive a 100-PGA... It's technically a 100-PGA-B, since it has an inlet on the bottom as well, but I don't think RainBird makes them without the bottom valves anymore.

I had a severe water hammer issue with the standard valve I had picked up at the local big box store. This valve closes slowly and completely eliminated the water hammer. I use this valve on the pool filler to keep the water level where it is supposed to be. In this use case, there is no back pressure from any sprinkler heads which aggravates the water hammer issue further. With this valve, that problem is solved.

1 out of 4 valves when hesitates when turning on and causes severe water hammer. The other 3 are whisper quiet.

Works great !

The product was exactly what I was looking for. The price was the best deal I could find from the Internet and from local distributors. (local distributers priced this part in excess of $25.00 more than what I paid here AND they didn't have it in stock. If I wanted to order it and needed it in under 10 days, I would have to pay for shipping! Uhhhh, no!) This part arrived promptly and I was back in business in no time! Good deal! Good product! Well done! Happy gal!

I have a severe water hammer problem upon shutdown in my outdoor sprinkler system (3/4 inch PVC plumbing) when I am only using one zone or when the last zone shuts down when using multiple zones. The timer controller partially eliminates this problem when using two or more zones because it turns on the next zone slightly before turning off the current zone. But it can't eliminate this problem on the last zone or when only using one zone. The water pressure in my system is only about 60 PSI. The claim is made that this is a so called "slow closing" valve that will eliminate the water hammer. It IS NOT slow closing. When power is removed from the solenoid, the valve slams shut - with the same water hammer as before - immediately. Whether this valve is installed in the "last" zone or used alone in any one zone at a time, the water hammer continues upon shutdown of that zone. I've tried reducing the water flow with the valve's manual adjustment, but that doesn't help unless the flow is so restricted that the output from the sprinkler heads is too severely reduced. The "Rain Bird" Specification for these PGA Series Valves states "The valve must open or close in less than one minute at 150 PSI and less than 30 seconds at 20 PSI." Say what? Yeah it definitely meets the spec as it actually closes in milliseconds, no different than the cheaper big box store valves. So I feel calling this a "slow closing" valve is very misleading if not outright false advertising. I know other reviewers say it eliminated their water hammer (that's why I bought this valve) but buyer beware. It didn't eliminate my problem at all.

I needed to replace a valve clearly stamped Rain Bird 100 PGA-B, having 6 bolts in total. I took me about an hour on the web, prior to ordering, to figure out that: 1) This vendor erroneously uses the picture of the 200 PGA valve with 10 bolts as the picture for the 6 bolt, 100 PGA product, 2) The Q&A response from 2016 is also wrong. The product received is clearly stamped 100 PGA-B, and it is the US thread 100 PGA valve, 3) While Rain Bird's website calls this part 100 PGA, and does not acknowledge the existence of any part number "PGA-B" in its product line, both this valve, and the valve I am replacing, are clearly stamped "100 PGA-B".