- Jun 18, 2019
- 579
- Pool Size
- 30000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
My 4 year old Prowler 920 was really struggling after running for two days. After careful observation, I found it was just moving in little bursts and not really going anywhere. I did the self-test, and it just seems the motor isn't smooth, particularly in reverse. I made a video down below.
At 4 years, I'm not sure it's worth trying to fix. Sadly, the power supply went out months ago, and I just replaced that, but I can probably recoup some of that expense on eBay.
Can anyone tell what's wrong? I think it's probably just time for a new one. I didn't love this robot for a couple reasons:
1. About 20% of the time, it was get stuck perfectly on a floor drain and not be able to get itself off most times.
2. It sometimes gets stuck around my pool swim up bar posts. I feel like it should be able to back out, but it just doesn't and gives up
3. My pools is reasonably far from my home, and I have to manually go down and restart it every 2-3 hours when it finishes its cycle. I would love a remote capability to just start it again as usually it needs to run 2-3 cycles to get every nook and cranny of my pool. A Wi-Fi or remote feature would be worthwhile.
I'm struggling to understand the Dolphin lineup as what's on their web site doesn't match Amazon. I have a $1,000 Amazon gift card from a work rewards program, so I'm pretty much married to Amazon for this purchase. Something with Wi-Fi control/start and multiple drive motors would be worthwhile to overcome the shortcomings of the 920.
Here's the video:
At 4 years, I'm not sure it's worth trying to fix. Sadly, the power supply went out months ago, and I just replaced that, but I can probably recoup some of that expense on eBay.
Can anyone tell what's wrong? I think it's probably just time for a new one. I didn't love this robot for a couple reasons:
1. About 20% of the time, it was get stuck perfectly on a floor drain and not be able to get itself off most times.
2. It sometimes gets stuck around my pool swim up bar posts. I feel like it should be able to back out, but it just doesn't and gives up
3. My pools is reasonably far from my home, and I have to manually go down and restart it every 2-3 hours when it finishes its cycle. I would love a remote capability to just start it again as usually it needs to run 2-3 cycles to get every nook and cranny of my pool. A Wi-Fi or remote feature would be worthwhile.
I'm struggling to understand the Dolphin lineup as what's on their web site doesn't match Amazon. I have a $1,000 Amazon gift card from a work rewards program, so I'm pretty much married to Amazon for this purchase. Something with Wi-Fi control/start and multiple drive motors would be worthwhile to overcome the shortcomings of the 920.
Here's the video:
