 Hey everyone welcome to road gear reviews. I'm Tom from Morton's on the move and today I'm taking a look at a flow meter You can hook up to your water hose stick around So this is a simple little product that can be extremely handy for an RV or even in your garden Any time you may want to monitor water flow through standard garden hose fittings this particular unit is made by a company called orbit and it can read the Amount of water that has flown through it in either gallons or a liters in this little digital readout on the front This unit can read out the individual amount of water use on the top line and on the bottom It'll keep track of the lifetime water that has gone through it both of these can be reset But one of them the top one can be reset with a simple press of a button if you press and hold the select button You can switch it between gallons or liters and on the screen It will also display if the battery starts to go dead on it changing the battery on this unit is super simple It's just a quarter turn on the back and it pops out and the battery is held in the back It is powered by a simple button cell 2032 battery anytime you replace the battery the screen does go all funky and it completely resets all your flow However, the unit works by using a little tiny turbine inside that spins very easily I think it uses probably the Hall effect to determine how many Revolutions it's made and figure out the water flow that way You can either use this in line by connecting it to a spigot ending your hose on the other side Or you can actually use it at the end of your hose as well So the reason this thing could be so useful for an RV or in our case how we use it is a lot of times We don't necessarily want to fill our water tank up all the way and we connect this to our hose And we can figure out exactly how many gallons we're putting into the RV our freshwater tank does have a meter But it only reads by third so we can't really figure out how much water is in the tank And this really helps us gauge how much we're actually putting in and how much weight we're carrying Another use of this is you can hook it up to your hose when you are hooked up to a water supply and Figure out how much water is going through that hose for general usage You could figure out how much water you're using to take a shower How much water you're using to do dishes and that can help you either limit your water usage For going off-grid or know how much you need to take we've been using this unit for about a year We have not needed to change the battery yet, and it is really convenient to use we use it on and off We definitely use it when we're filling up before we hit the road because we usually don't want to travel with More than a half a tank of water. We got this particular unit at Home Depot I think it cost us about ten dollars, but I'll put some links to the same unit online and Overall, we found it really convenient. So that's about it for the orbit digital water flow meter Thank you so much for watching road gear reviews. We upload a video every week. So be sure to subscribe and stick around If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below Also, be sure to subscribe to our channel for weekly uploads of our travel product reviews