I found some info on the Aiper website. Flashing red light means either the rotor is stuck or the motor is flooded. I have emailed customer service. Website says it must be repaired or replaced.
Aiper Scuba S1 Review
- Thread starter Katodude
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They seem to respond early on weekday mornings. One response per day.
- Oct 25, 2015
- 5,809
- Pool Size
- 28000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-60 Plus
Mine did that second or third run. Turns out I had a thermometer with a 3' string holding it in place. The S1 grabbed the string and rolled it up tight with the thermometer jammed in the big brush was locked. This must have over-loaded it and shut down with red flashing light. Pulled it out turned the brush backwards (it was very hard felt like it was in low gear or something. Put the charger on it and has been running great. We probably have about 10 runs and so far so good!
Can anyone explain what the soft rubber plate/cover thing is just below the charging port? Mine is attached at the top, and just hanging at the bottom. Is this how it should be? Or did my glue/adhesive that keeps this gray rubber piece on come loose already after 1 week?
This curved rectangular plate made of soft rubber that my left index finger is touching in this pic. What is it for and is it supposed to be loose at the bottom?
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That black flap is the exit of the flow that goes through the filter. The top port is exit for propulsion and the bottom flap is the exit for debris capture
Ok so it’s normal for the flap to be open at the bottom, as it’s letting exhaust water exit the robot? Seems weird, why not just make it some sort of grate instead of a flimsy rubber flap. It honestly feels like it’s going to come off eventually…
Costs and patents all come into product design. it is what it is. my feels secure but only time will tell. My assumption, it only has to last longer than the life of the batteries. Whatever timeframe that is.
JC707
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- Sep 5, 2020
- 392
- Pool Size
- 22000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Jandy Aquapure 1400
Been using the S1 (non pro) for a month now on our pebble finished rectangle shaped pool. 3.5-8' deep with a decent sized slope in middle.
Floor mode is my favorite as we have some challenging styled steps in shallow end and wall mode gets a little tricky there.
So far happy with the robot. Previously used a suction cleaner the builder gave us which worked good but pain to remove for Betta to run.
I'm hesitant to upgrade firmware as so far it's working good enough where I don't want to screw with the firmware if not need. What do you all think, go ahead and update?
Floor mode is my favorite as we have some challenging styled steps in shallow end and wall mode gets a little tricky there.
So far happy with the robot. Previously used a suction cleaner the builder gave us which worked good but pain to remove for Betta to run.
I'm hesitant to upgrade firmware as so far it's working good enough where I don't want to screw with the firmware if not need. What do you all think, go ahead and update?
- Oct 25, 2015
- 5,809
- Pool Size
- 28000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-60 Plus
Mine has the same thing I'm guessing it has to be able to move to navigate up the side of the pool. Mine feels hinged with a spring but I'll look closer later today.
- Oct 25, 2015
- 5,809
- Pool Size
- 28000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-60 Plus
Don't know where all the black and grey dust is coming from but we're getting lot of it every day and the S1 is handling it fine. If I let it go for 3 or 4 days it overwhelms the robot but I'm guessing it would do the same for the corded versions. Only thing i can think of is we had some very serious brush fires in surrounding woods and maybe we're getting dosed with ash. As it is right now one cycle in floor only mode does a great job. I'll try sides and floor tomorrow to see how that goes. Been using it daily for about 2 weeks and very happy with the results. Robin (wife) was right again!
Finally ended up hooking my Wave 80 back up, it picked up more in a 3 hour period than the Pro did after 3-4 cycles. I saw a complaint somewhere earlier in the thread about the Pro seemingly having less suction power even though it is advertised as more, than the regular. I definitely had the same experience. Sending my Pro back this week.
- Oct 25, 2015
- 5,809
- Pool Size
- 28000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-60 Plus
I continue to be very impressed with the S1. We are experiencing a LOT of black sooty debris. I think this is from a recent brush fire surrounding our development and possibly other controlled burns in Martin County Florida. If I don't vacuum daily it is very visible and after 3 days the bottom looks terrible. Seems to handle this with ease so well that I'm going to back off to eco mode so I should only need to charge it every 4 days.
Only thing I wish they had was capability to add a cord for prolonged periods away. If we're out of town a week we are guaranteed the pool will be a mess. With my previous corded model it was no problem since we had it on an Alexa controlled receptacle. I may try to find an inexpensive corded bot for this purpose. OK say it, I'm pretty spoiled!
Chris
Only thing I wish they had was capability to add a cord for prolonged periods away. If we're out of town a week we are guaranteed the pool will be a mess. With my previous corded model it was no problem since we had it on an Alexa controlled receptacle. I may try to find an inexpensive corded bot for this purpose. OK say it, I'm pretty spoiled!
Chris
- Aug 22, 2017
- 2,997
- Pool Size
- 15000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
I am normally a guy who buys expensive things and then babies them. For the me S1 is a liberating experience. When I go outside in the morning to have my coffee (like right now). I pull it off its charger and dump it in. I run it every day. What do I care. I bought an $8 pole off Amazon that is now a dedicated hook for pulling it out, so that is super easy.
Here is the best part. I barely clean the thing. The basket is enormous, so when it is done, I pull it out and put it back on the charger. Maybe once a week I will clean the basket.
Compared to the work for running the M500 I have, its a breeze. Wheel it to the pool, drop it in, wheel the caddy back to the cord to plug it in. Remove the Betta(s) from the pool so they dont conflict. Look at the caddy and the cord the whole time it is cleaning. Wheel the caddy back pull the robot up, coil the cord on the caddy. Wheel it over to the hose. Rinse the pleated filters out. Rinse the robot down. Wheel it back to it storage spot.
Here is the best part. I barely clean the thing. The basket is enormous, so when it is done, I pull it out and put it back on the charger. Maybe once a week I will clean the basket.
Compared to the work for running the M500 I have, its a breeze. Wheel it to the pool, drop it in, wheel the caddy back to the cord to plug it in. Remove the Betta(s) from the pool so they dont conflict. Look at the caddy and the cord the whole time it is cleaning. Wheel the caddy back pull the robot up, coil the cord on the caddy. Wheel it over to the hose. Rinse the pleated filters out. Rinse the robot down. Wheel it back to it storage spot.
- Oct 25, 2015
- 5,809
- Pool Size
- 28000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-60 Plus
That's interesting Andy, I was thinking to get a cheap dedicated pole for it also.
I've got a Polaris 280 that still works, but stuff keeps breaking on it regularly and I have to keep replacing parts. The Pentair parts are stupid expensive, so I tend to just buy third party Amazon parts. It's still working and the RPM calibrated and all that, but it's just too chaotic for my taste. The shallow end of my pool has a gigantic blue oak overhanging it, and acorn season just started. I've been having to run it 4-6 hours a day just to keep the shallow end clean, changing the bags 1-2 times per day. It's really annoying. Plus, the Amazon knockoff tail I just put on is constantly spraying water everywhere when it comes up near the waterline. Even over my fence into the neighbors pool, haha.
So I just picked up an S1 Pro on sale for $879 during Prime Day simply because my buddy has one and says it's been pretty good. I just received it yesterday, and I honestly wasn't impressed with the Auto mode much. When it did the walls, it would do counter-clockwise rotations of my pool, but it would consistently skip a the same quarter of the walls in my shallow end for some reason, as well as sometimes randomly skipping a few feet. I kinda wish Auto started with the floor and used the last half of the battery for the walls since the floor gets the most debris and that's usually what I wanted it to clean first.
Today, I set it to floor mode and it seemed to do a much better, programmatic clean. It got all the acorns and junk without any issues during a 3-hour shift. My pool is a blobby design, with rounded corners and a step in the deep end and by the waterfall. These tend to make it turn a bit when backing down the wall, which might be why it seems to skip parts. Putting it in wall mode still skips the same quarter of my walls unfortunately.
I do like the large basket, as I don't have to empty it every time like my 280's bag during acorn season. I'm actually shocked at how much other Crud and dog hair it picks up compared with the 280 as well. Did anyone buy a second basket or filter to have a spare? With my two Bettas (one is half broken of course lol, and the other is it's replacement), I have 4 baskets total, so I can pull the two baskets and let the debris dry off before I dump it.
Being able to run it alongside my Bettas without them getting stuck on a hose constantly is nice though.
My biggest LOL is the fact that wall mode must be engaged from the app. This seems to suggest that they designed the hardware, and a week after release they realized that they forgot to put a LED indicator for wall mode, along with a way to select it, so they had to just add it to the app as a bandaid.
Overall, I'm at like a 6.5/10 on my enthusiasm for it, which isn't great for almost a $900 robot. My kids immediately wanted to make rocket ships out of the cardboard boxes it came in, and I told them no just in case I wanted to return it.
So I just picked up an S1 Pro on sale for $879 during Prime Day simply because my buddy has one and says it's been pretty good. I just received it yesterday, and I honestly wasn't impressed with the Auto mode much. When it did the walls, it would do counter-clockwise rotations of my pool, but it would consistently skip a the same quarter of the walls in my shallow end for some reason, as well as sometimes randomly skipping a few feet. I kinda wish Auto started with the floor and used the last half of the battery for the walls since the floor gets the most debris and that's usually what I wanted it to clean first.
Today, I set it to floor mode and it seemed to do a much better, programmatic clean. It got all the acorns and junk without any issues during a 3-hour shift. My pool is a blobby design, with rounded corners and a step in the deep end and by the waterfall. These tend to make it turn a bit when backing down the wall, which might be why it seems to skip parts. Putting it in wall mode still skips the same quarter of my walls unfortunately.
I do like the large basket, as I don't have to empty it every time like my 280's bag during acorn season. I'm actually shocked at how much other Crud and dog hair it picks up compared with the 280 as well. Did anyone buy a second basket or filter to have a spare? With my two Bettas (one is half broken of course lol, and the other is it's replacement), I have 4 baskets total, so I can pull the two baskets and let the debris dry off before I dump it.
Being able to run it alongside my Bettas without them getting stuck on a hose constantly is nice though.
My biggest LOL is the fact that wall mode must be engaged from the app. This seems to suggest that they designed the hardware, and a week after release they realized that they forgot to put a LED indicator for wall mode, along with a way to select it, so they had to just add it to the app as a bandaid.
Overall, I'm at like a 6.5/10 on my enthusiasm for it, which isn't great for almost a $900 robot. My kids immediately wanted to make rocket ships out of the cardboard boxes it came in, and I told them no just in case I wanted to return it.
alright, decided to join this as there has been a lot of cool info being shared. I have the S1 Pro, it is charging, so the maiden voyage will sometime tonight if not first thing in the morning.
-One thing I wanted to address, as I read it and saw a pic of it somewhere earlier in the thread, is the ultra fine filter and its configuration. The pic depicted a space next to the ultra fine filter where water accumulated and went to the main filter. Mine is not configured this way. The water flows into the main filter and then the ultra fine filter, NO gap or side-space, see attached. The "black" to the sides of the filter is actually solid plastic and not a gap. When the large basket is removed, there is a gap under that black plastic area it, but is blocked by the plastic backing of the larger basket when inserted. How much water flows back there and misses the fine filter, who knows, but doesn't seem like it would be much.
-Second, the manual actually talks about the Hydrocomm and the uses for it, so for whatever that is worth, maybe there is still hope for it. Not sure if that verbiage was in anyone else's manual that purchased this earlier in the year. The N1 web pages definitely talk about this option.
As for everything else, I will see how it goes. Out in west Texas we have tons of flying dirt from all the fields(cotton, alfalfa, etc) so an ultra-fine filter was going to be a must, IMO. I will see, but it was the reason I did not go for the S1. The extra features and app, seem all good and dandy, but that wasn't my draw to the machine.
-One thing I wanted to address, as I read it and saw a pic of it somewhere earlier in the thread, is the ultra fine filter and its configuration. The pic depicted a space next to the ultra fine filter where water accumulated and went to the main filter. Mine is not configured this way. The water flows into the main filter and then the ultra fine filter, NO gap or side-space, see attached. The "black" to the sides of the filter is actually solid plastic and not a gap. When the large basket is removed, there is a gap under that black plastic area it, but is blocked by the plastic backing of the larger basket when inserted. How much water flows back there and misses the fine filter, who knows, but doesn't seem like it would be much.
-Second, the manual actually talks about the Hydrocomm and the uses for it, so for whatever that is worth, maybe there is still hope for it. Not sure if that verbiage was in anyone else's manual that purchased this earlier in the year. The N1 web pages definitely talk about this option.
As for everything else, I will see how it goes. Out in west Texas we have tons of flying dirt from all the fields(cotton, alfalfa, etc) so an ultra-fine filter was going to be a must, IMO. I will see, but it was the reason I did not go for the S1. The extra features and app, seem all good and dandy, but that wasn't my draw to the machine.
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