Our beloved WallE (Pentair Warrior SI) died about two months ago.
Because our 17 yo son has decided he wants to be a passenger airline pilot and we foresee needing to vomit cash for flight school, we thought we’d go old school for the rest of this season and drag out the ole manual vacuum. Turns out we are far too privileged and that’s not for us!
Decided to try a less expensive option and picked up a Betta SE for $375 (Amazon.com)
and a
Wybot Osprey 700 for $470 (Amazon.com).
Our line of thinking was the Wybot would only need to be ran a time or two per week with the Betta there to skim more from the top of the water.
Received the Wybot on Wed and have ran it four times now.
Just put Betta in about an hour ago.
Thus far, for our pool (which admittedly is different than most) if I had to make a decision right NOW, both bots would be going back to Amazon.
Wybot hasn’t been able to climb the angled floor walls (versus the vertical walls) of our deep end some areas. Oddly enough, it CAN climb all vertical walls it has been able to reach, and cleaned the water line with it.
It also has not been able to climb our wedding cake steps. But no judgment there as even WallE couldn’t do that.
It should also be noted that WallE had issues with one corner of our deep end. But because I could “drive” him, he got most of it when needed and forced.
As for Betta, it has “fought” three times thus far with our most powerful of the two intakes we have. Once it was stuck for a couple minutes until I pushed it back. The other three times it fought its way off.
However, initial look says that Betta can’t hold in the very small items it takes in. When it backs up after hitting a wall to go elsewhere the small stuff is allowed to escape.
We purposefully threw in some pine straw, leaves, and crepe Myrtle flowers we found in our yard. It has picked all that up, but a few CM flowers have escaped. Maybe it will be able to pick items back up before they sink?
Attaching photos of what the Wybot has failed to cross in four runs. I’ve tried to manipulate the photos so Wybot path can be seen more clearly.
Will follow up as we “play” with each robot to try and improve their abilities.
Because our 17 yo son has decided he wants to be a passenger airline pilot and we foresee needing to vomit cash for flight school, we thought we’d go old school for the rest of this season and drag out the ole manual vacuum. Turns out we are far too privileged and that’s not for us!
Decided to try a less expensive option and picked up a Betta SE for $375 (Amazon.com)
and a
Wybot Osprey 700 for $470 (Amazon.com).
Our line of thinking was the Wybot would only need to be ran a time or two per week with the Betta there to skim more from the top of the water.
Received the Wybot on Wed and have ran it four times now.
Just put Betta in about an hour ago.
Thus far, for our pool (which admittedly is different than most) if I had to make a decision right NOW, both bots would be going back to Amazon.
Wybot hasn’t been able to climb the angled floor walls (versus the vertical walls) of our deep end some areas. Oddly enough, it CAN climb all vertical walls it has been able to reach, and cleaned the water line with it.
It also has not been able to climb our wedding cake steps. But no judgment there as even WallE couldn’t do that.
It should also be noted that WallE had issues with one corner of our deep end. But because I could “drive” him, he got most of it when needed and forced.
As for Betta, it has “fought” three times thus far with our most powerful of the two intakes we have. Once it was stuck for a couple minutes until I pushed it back. The other three times it fought its way off.
However, initial look says that Betta can’t hold in the very small items it takes in. When it backs up after hitting a wall to go elsewhere the small stuff is allowed to escape.
We purposefully threw in some pine straw, leaves, and crepe Myrtle flowers we found in our yard. It has picked all that up, but a few CM flowers have escaped. Maybe it will be able to pick items back up before they sink?
Attaching photos of what the Wybot has failed to cross in four runs. I’ve tried to manipulate the photos so Wybot path can be seen more clearly.
Will follow up as we “play” with each robot to try and improve their abilities.
. Just a wild suggestion.
