Hi, I just bought a Hayward Aquavac 600. I received it yesterday so thought Id put it in as I havent cleaned the pool since the new liner about 10 days ago.
since the pool only had some debris and leaves at the bottom, I decided to just do a floor pass (90 min). came back a while later and it was stopped.
I emptied and restarted. second pass 2 hours later, same thing.
The thing is, even after 2 floor passes it still had not cleaned sand and debris from a bunch of places. inside corners in shallow, both sides of the slope to the deep end where floor meets wall, 3" around the drain, both deep end corners where 2 walls meet floor as well as a whole bunch of flat liner seams that just had dirt sitting in them.
I tried a third pass with the whole pool setting ( 150 mins ) and the same spots were never touched so I pulled out my pole brush and got to work.
Although this does not excuse why the seams are still dirty, I get the feeling that the robot is too big, as it arrives at a wall at an angle, 1 wheel starts to climb, 2 wheels lift off and with only 2 adjacent wheels touching the liner the center is so far off the ground that it can't suck what's in the crack and by the time it sits down again, it's past the corner/wall.
I can honestly say that my decades old suction side Arneson Poolvac Plus did a better job at cleaning the pool without intervention.
This is my first robotic cleaner, am I doing something wrong, am I expecting too much?
Thanks
since the pool only had some debris and leaves at the bottom, I decided to just do a floor pass (90 min). came back a while later and it was stopped.
I emptied and restarted. second pass 2 hours later, same thing.
The thing is, even after 2 floor passes it still had not cleaned sand and debris from a bunch of places. inside corners in shallow, both sides of the slope to the deep end where floor meets wall, 3" around the drain, both deep end corners where 2 walls meet floor as well as a whole bunch of flat liner seams that just had dirt sitting in them.
I tried a third pass with the whole pool setting ( 150 mins ) and the same spots were never touched so I pulled out my pole brush and got to work.
Although this does not excuse why the seams are still dirty, I get the feeling that the robot is too big, as it arrives at a wall at an angle, 1 wheel starts to climb, 2 wheels lift off and with only 2 adjacent wheels touching the liner the center is so far off the ground that it can't suck what's in the crack and by the time it sits down again, it's past the corner/wall.
I can honestly say that my decades old suction side Arneson Poolvac Plus did a better job at cleaning the pool without intervention.
This is my first robotic cleaner, am I doing something wrong, am I expecting too much?
Thanks