tcat
Silver Supporter
- May 30, 2012
- 1,661
- Pool Size
- 17000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool Edge-40
With all due respect, I think you are expecting too much out of the programming of these things. I would run it 5 times and see how much of the pool it misses. If you can't live with having to clean manually the parts that it misses, then send it back. I've had several robots and none of them are perfect. I have to do very little manual cleaning, but I run the robot at least once a day and let it do its thing. The last thing I will do is watch it and expect it to get everything in a methodical manner. That just is not where the state of the art is with these things. It's not going to clean everything in one round. That is a pipe dream.Hey all... Below is an email that I just wrote to Aiper. I really wanted to like the Seagull PRO as it looked like it would do exactly what I wanted, and the CLEANING did work really well... The programming just isn't yet up to snuff in my opinion:
I want to thank you for the incredible shipping. This was ordered on Monday morning and it was in my pool by Wednesday afternoon. Awesome!
Unfortunately, I have been less than impressed since it did get into my pool. I have a fairly large 33,300 gallon in ground 'L' shaped pool. All of the sides are straight and the corners have two 45 degree angles rather than a hard 90. The deep end sees the bottom sloping down steeply on three sides to 9 feet. All in all, I though it would be the perfect candidate for the Seagull PRO.
On Wednesday afternoon I set it to 'floor' and lowered it into the pool. It started cleaning immediately and after working into the deep end a time or two, it worked itself into the short end of the 'L' in the shallow part of the pool.... and got stuck in a loop there for the next 45 minutes. It would approach the end of the pool at such an angle that it would straighten the robot out and it would continue until it hit the far wall. It would back up, turn, and go back to the near wall, turn, and retrace its exact path until it hit the end of the pool straighten out until it reached the far wall, and repeat. A few times it would back up from the end wall, just far enough to put it back into its own path, then continue on again the way it had been.
Thursday morning I decided to try to start it in the deep end. It seemed to be doing well... Until it high-centered on the drain cover. I used the pole to move it off, it moved forward, turned, then high-centered itself right back on the drain. I grabbed it and pulled it away, it turned, pulled forward and high centered on the OTHER drain cover.
Thursday evening I decided to try the wall cleaning. I started it on the wall in the shallow end. It was doing a great job... until it reached the deep end. The steep slope from the side to the bottom threw it off, it drove itself to the other side of the pool then climbed up and started cleaning the waterline. It lowered itself back down to the slope, but because of the angle between the slope and the wall, it turned enough that it climbed back up in the exact spot it had just come down. It cleaned to the waterline, came back down... hit the slope, got turned, then climbed up at exactly the same spot.
I had to leave, but when I returned it was parked just below the area that it had been retracing, so I have no reason to believe that it ever left that spot.
I really like the idea, and the CLEANING portion of the machine seems to work great. The LOGIC portion of the machine does not seem to work well, at least on my pool.
I am open to suggestions, or if you have a software update that I could install... but at it is right now, I just can't justify keeping it the way that it performs.
I look forward to your response. Please send either a suggestion on how I might be able to fix the situation or a return shipping label.
I have had the same problem. I find that if I use two hands I can turn it without much trouble. If it gets any worse, then it will be an issue. It almost seems like it might be due to squeezing it to turn it with one hand makes it catch. But with two hands, the pressure is more evenly distributed on the knob and so turning it is okay. Or maybe I'm just stronger when I use two hands on it.The selector can be tough to move sometimes - this is sporadic so I am baffled
I seemingly got those tires to stick. Used super glue gel. https://a.co/d/bEQ3r9b Just a dab on every other rib on existing tire about 1/3 from outside edge. Hasn't gotten stuck on drain yet.Hi @tcat ... I'm having the same issue you were having with it getting stuck on the main drain. I just ordered those white tire additions from Amazon that you recommended. Did you just trim off the inside lip on one side and slide them on?
Mine's pebble with 6" tile waterline. I read one other guy had a problem with fiberglass not climbing, so maybe you slick. I think they need grippier tires.Is yours tiled similar to mine? It's almost as if it is slipping. Tiles too shiny maybe?
Depends on drain height. Mine are about 3/4" from what I can tell, gets stuck on both. I modified the rear wheels with modified tires from Polaris (Amazon less than $15). Superglue gel seems to work. Hasn't got stuck since. They add 1/4" to the radius, so fine seem to effect suction. After my 3rd replacement, I'm happy, other than it needs a fine filter option. Throwing a hair net in the basket picks up some finer stuff.So read about 4 pages so far Amazon and here say it gets stuck on drains. Is this the case? I don’t understand as it looks like my Polaris p955 and it never gets stuck I don’t even understand how this could get stuck when it has 4 wheels to move it and presumably 4wd.