Just picked up the M600 on Saturday after reading some reviews here. Thought I'd share my take for others looking to purchase a new pool cleaner.
-Set up was fairly easy and intuitive to put the caddy together. To connect the app, I needed to move the control unit closer to my router to get it to connect, even though I have a tri-band router, with a signal that reaches well into my back yard.
-My pool was very dirty, after the winter. I had an algae bloom that I shocked into submission the night before, and there was DE in the pool, b/c of a cracked manifold, which I replaced during the filter clean out the week before.
-With the amount of debris on the pool floor, the M600 did not perform as well as the suction cleaner I replaced, Polaris 280 BlackMax w/PB4 Booster Pump. It seemed to move faster than the debris would suck in and moved a lot of it around the bottom of the pool. This may be partly due to the type of grids I had on. Since I knew I had DE in the pool, I wanted to catch as much of the fine dust as I could with the cleaning, and the M600 did an excellent job with that.
-With a full basket, the unit does not have the power to make it up the side of a wall more than 2-3ft. The first time through I had to catch it on the way up before it dropped back again. I included a pic of my first basket capture.
-Needless to say, there was still a lot of debris remaining after a 2 hour cleaning cycle, and to be fair, it probably stopped sucking up debris an hour to 1.5 hours into the cycle.
-Once I emptied the basket and ran it through another cycle it really performed as promised. Going all the way to the water line and giving the walls a good scrub. The basket was about halfway full after the 2nd cleaning, and the M600 did work as expected for the pickup this time. Although it was in the shallow end...approx 4 ft. I would expect it to work as well in the diving end, since it does hit the water line, but this would be after a full basket.
-It doesn't do stairs or the tanning ledge and it comes up to the top of the submerged benches but doesn't go on top of the bench, even though it's about 3 foot below the water line. I did not notice how it handled the swim out, which has somewhat of a concave contour going up to the ledge.
-Overall, I'm really satisfied with the performance. I love the filtration level of fine particles, and I hope this will cut down on the need to brush the walls as much in the summer.
-Set up was fairly easy and intuitive to put the caddy together. To connect the app, I needed to move the control unit closer to my router to get it to connect, even though I have a tri-band router, with a signal that reaches well into my back yard.
-My pool was very dirty, after the winter. I had an algae bloom that I shocked into submission the night before, and there was DE in the pool, b/c of a cracked manifold, which I replaced during the filter clean out the week before.
-With the amount of debris on the pool floor, the M600 did not perform as well as the suction cleaner I replaced, Polaris 280 BlackMax w/PB4 Booster Pump. It seemed to move faster than the debris would suck in and moved a lot of it around the bottom of the pool. This may be partly due to the type of grids I had on. Since I knew I had DE in the pool, I wanted to catch as much of the fine dust as I could with the cleaning, and the M600 did an excellent job with that.
-With a full basket, the unit does not have the power to make it up the side of a wall more than 2-3ft. The first time through I had to catch it on the way up before it dropped back again. I included a pic of my first basket capture.
-Needless to say, there was still a lot of debris remaining after a 2 hour cleaning cycle, and to be fair, it probably stopped sucking up debris an hour to 1.5 hours into the cycle.
-Once I emptied the basket and ran it through another cycle it really performed as promised. Going all the way to the water line and giving the walls a good scrub. The basket was about halfway full after the 2nd cleaning, and the M600 did work as expected for the pickup this time. Although it was in the shallow end...approx 4 ft. I would expect it to work as well in the diving end, since it does hit the water line, but this would be after a full basket.
-It doesn't do stairs or the tanning ledge and it comes up to the top of the submerged benches but doesn't go on top of the bench, even though it's about 3 foot below the water line. I did not notice how it handled the swim out, which has somewhat of a concave contour going up to the ledge.
-Overall, I'm really satisfied with the performance. I love the filtration level of fine particles, and I hope this will cut down on the need to brush the walls as much in the summer.
