I'll be investing in a new robot this year upon opening the pool in April, and am reaching out for any recommendations here.
Our Dolphin DX-4 robot really only worked well its first year (it's 5 years old now). It's been plagued with power supply failures (went thru 3 of them), but none since I started putting a cover over it when it's out of the pool.
The biggest issue for the last three years has been its uncanny ability to get "stuck" on the main drains. When it gets hung up on one (yep...we've got 2 main drains....double the fun!) it spins around, sometimes for as long as 10-15 minutes.
So I'll be wanting a new robot that's less likely to get "trapped" on the main drain.
It seems, from my readings here, that the Maytronics M-500 might be the least likely to get hung up on the drains because of it's "dual drive". I like this feature, and the fact it's got a top-loading filter. I also like that it's got the swivel cord on it. (LOL....I suspect that if our DX-4 didn't have the swivel, it would have pulled the power supply out of the socket at some point).
My hesitation about the M-500 is its size...it seems huge. Our pool is only 12,000 gallons, so it won't have a lot of ground to cover when it cleans. I'm wondering if there's another robot model I should be looking at that's not quite so enormous, yet won't get caught on the drains?
Advice and suggestions, as always, are welcome!
Our Dolphin DX-4 robot really only worked well its first year (it's 5 years old now). It's been plagued with power supply failures (went thru 3 of them), but none since I started putting a cover over it when it's out of the pool.
The biggest issue for the last three years has been its uncanny ability to get "stuck" on the main drains. When it gets hung up on one (yep...we've got 2 main drains....double the fun!) it spins around, sometimes for as long as 10-15 minutes.
So I'll be wanting a new robot that's less likely to get "trapped" on the main drain.
It seems, from my readings here, that the Maytronics M-500 might be the least likely to get hung up on the drains because of it's "dual drive". I like this feature, and the fact it's got a top-loading filter. I also like that it's got the swivel cord on it. (LOL....I suspect that if our DX-4 didn't have the swivel, it would have pulled the power supply out of the socket at some point).
My hesitation about the M-500 is its size...it seems huge. Our pool is only 12,000 gallons, so it won't have a lot of ground to cover when it cleans. I'm wondering if there's another robot model I should be looking at that's not quite so enormous, yet won't get caught on the drains?
Advice and suggestions, as always, are welcome!