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anyone else having problems with robotic cleaners hitting the bullnose coping im in the market for one but could be a deal breaker if there not good with bullnose coping
cviz said:Took the plunge and purchased the Dolphin M5; looking forward to running it through its paces. I'll will post my findings. This one is replacing a 8 + yr old Original Basic Aquabot. Which used to take 7 hrs to clean my pool.
erock14 said:got my m5 yesterday and have to say im a little disappointed, the full filter light came on in like 20 minutes pulled it up and pulled the filter boxes out and there was a few leaves in there that's it, you have to be kidding me, these baskets or so tiny, they are meant to pick up miniscule particles, that's not what I thought it was gonna be. in September I get acorns and I can see they wont fit in that opening. I have some algea on the deep end wall under the diving board and the m5 just rolled over it, didn't even disturb it, my old Hayward suction cleaner sucked that right up and put dozens of leaves and acorns into my pump basket. I think I made a mistake. my pool is Grecian style with many angles and it cant seem to keep a straight line either, so its just random just like my old suction one. you live and you learn. sometimes the old way is just the better way.
My Aquabot Turbo also gets stuck on the bottom drain. I use the same Polaris Unicover you mentioned and it fixes the problem. I don't have any problem with it floating off. Anyway, supposedly the new M4 and M5 have a third roller which completely eliminates the problem. I don't own one yet so it would be nice if a "real" owner could confirm the third roller keeps it off the bottom drain.sfatl said:I bought a Dolphin Deluxe 4 a few years ago (3 years ago) and I was wondering if anyone is having the same problems I am having and if purchasing a Dolphin M5 would take care of the problem. They installed 2 new raised main drains in the pool from one flat drain, my Deluxe 4 gets stuck on the drains about every 5 minutes and I have to go pull them off which is a big pain. I have bought 2 Polaris Unicovers which were $120 for both, that didn't work since they just kept floating off so I then bought some Main drain clip ons which cost $70 and they just floated off also. Does the Dolphin M5 have the capability of just going over the main drains or am I stuck with going back to manually vacuuming my pool?