Using a Betta 2 Robotic Pool Skimmer and bottom cleaner simultaneously

[Vetman]

I have a Betta skimmer that I like and it picks up a lot of the leaves blown into my pool. I also have a wired bottom pool cleaner, but I cannot use both of them at the same time.

Is there a good cordless cleaner for picking up a lot of the leaves that make it to the bottom of the pool? Most of the leaves are the size of the leaf from a Hibiscus plant just from the surrounding trees.

 

[Orion7319]

I have a Betta skimmer that I like and it picks up a lot of the leaves blown into my pool. I also have a wired bottom pool cleaner, but I cannot use both of them at the same time.

Is there a good cordless cleaner for picking up a lot of the leaves that make it to the bottom of the pool? Most of the leaves are the size of the leaf from a Hibiscus plant just from the surrounding trees.

I think @tcat has or had a battery powered cleaner for this purpose. He might be able to offer some insight.

Smorobot X10 review

First day with this, so far, like it! Seems to find the entire bottom. The X11 does walls and waterline, I didn't care about that. Took about 2 hours to charge, probably had some from store. So far it's been running 1.5 hours, supposed to make it 2.5 hours. I'll add picture following once I...

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[Mdragger88]

@Katodude
Has multiple automatic skimmers & a maytronics robot, maybe he can share what he does as well.

 

[Orion7319]

@Katodude
Has multiple automatic skimmers & a maytronics robot, maybe he can share what he does as well.

I just run the beta during the day and the dolphin at night most of the time. This works for the most part unless a storm blows in, but when that happens I get so much debris I have to manually skim the surface and net the majority of stuff off the bottom. I still had to spend 3 hours manually cleaning up the pool after Ian this Saturday.

 

[Mdragger88]

It’s funny, I never really thought about the robots fighting each other until this post.

 

[tcat]

I bungee my Betta2 in the sun and run my Aquabot during that time. Only need to run the robot once week. Betta2 runs from about noon to 10pm. Haven't had a bad leaf drop yet to stress test the Betta2.

 

[Katodude]

I pull my surface skimmers when I use the Maytronics robot.

I like the idea of bungee it in one place while the robot is running.

Some folks have tried to manage this, not with much success.

Ariel Surface bot and Maytronics Dolphin Deconfliction

Last November, I pre-ordered an “Ariel by Solar-Breeze” surface bot. Before the actual delivery of Ariel, I had then decided to also make the switch from a suction-side cleaner to a Dolphin Robot by Maytronics for cleaning the bottom, sides and tile. In my research, I noticed several threads...

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[maggiesfan]

I have been running the Smorobot X11 and the Betta2 for 4 months now and they play nicely together, I always run the X11 in floor only mode, which means charging it to 7 solid green lights and turning the on/off switch to ”S” it runs approx 2.5 hour.
takes about 40 minutes to get to that stage with the fast charger, it did get stuck on the main drain a few times but since I added the software patch it hasn’t done so.