Dolphin s200 and Pollen?

[John55]

Hi folks,

I have a bit of pollen that just sits at the bottom of the pool during this time of year. How effective are robots, particularly the Dolphin S200 at collecting this fine, fine, fine, material?

Just about to pull the trigger with Marina pools for a s200.

Thanks,

John

 

[mitchellb]

My Aquabot X4 picks up the pollen in my pool very nicely. The filters have a very fine mesh which traps the pollen easily. I cannot comment about the S200.

 

[thebombardier]

The fine filters could probably handle it. They filter down to 70 microns, pollen can be anywhere from 10-1000 microns.

 

[bmoreswim]

I have this robot with the fine cartridge filters (and also rough filter insert). The amount of very fine debris it captures is quite impressive. I describe our debris (whatever it is) as dust-like. It just poofs up if the robot hasn't run for days to a week. After running the robot, either once if kept up, or several times if it's been longer, there is virtually no fine debris left to see if I brush.

 

[rking3]

I have this robot with the fine cartridge filters (and also rough filter insert). The amount of very fine debris it captures is quite impressive. I describe our debris (whatever it is) as dust-like. It just poofs up if the robot hasn't run for days to a week. After running the robot, either once if kept up, or several times if it's been longer, there is virtually no fine debris left to see if I brush.

I have the s300i, and I too am very impressed with the amount of fine dirt and debris it picks up.

But to answer the op, my pollen is usually surface pollen and the dolphin does not capture it all.

 

[scott407]

I use an s200 and it does very well with fine debris when using the fine pleated filters. I was using the medium filters when my concrete pool deck had the expansion joints cut in. The concrete dust went straight to the bottom. When I swapped to the fine filters it only took a couple of runs to get it all.