My autonomous lawn mower thread/blog

Oh, I think we may have had a similar experience with that installer.

Hi folks,

Wanted to ask about my boundary wire layout. I've laid it like in the attached picture but I'm not sure the mower will go to the Grass area A marked in the picture. I haven't been able to keep an eye on it but when it starts it goes around the boundary wire across the path to the second lawn and works away there fine. Haven't seen it back on the first patch yet. Would I be better off just laying the wire around the boundary and let the lower think the path is grass? It will try to mow it but I guess do no harm.

What price did you find? I am looking at 430x or 520.

Yeah I relaid it this afternoon just to have one area. Have the mower off now for few days

Has anybody extended their robotic lawnmower low voltage wire. I have husqvarna 310 , and would ideally like 25m instead of 20m. Web sites say you should not extend . Would one get away with adding 5m ?

Also, has anybody been able to buy 25m or 30m low voltage wire and if yes, has it had any impact on their transformer or base station?

Thanks

I was quoted 3345 euros for the mower alone by a couple of places. The dealer I got it from messaged me on here actually and sent me a quote. I can dm his details to you if you want. No harm in trying him.

For info, I don't think they use GPS. It looks like you set up a number of transmitters in your garden and it uses these for location rather than satellites.

It sounds like a good idea, but I wonder how they are with the actual mowing technology.

Hey, quick question, I'm looking at buying a robot mower for a lawn approx 3000m2. However portions of the lawn are a bit bumpy. I've heard that robot mowers are not suitable for bumpy lawns. Has anyone got any experience of that?

Its on sale pre order from robocleaners and they said they expect shipment to begin from April. They have their prices listed there for the different models. It sounds great but it would be nice to see how it will works before parting with too much cash

That looks quite good and may suit my needs. I've been considering one for a long time but the awkwardness of my site and laying wires I've put it off. Thinking of doing an extension and landscaping in next year or two as well so was putting it of till that was finished. Not needing wires certainly makes the Segway tempting to get now. My lawnmower deck is on it's last legs so I need to make a decision, I'm not going to get a full season out of it. Annoyingly the Briggs and Straton engine is bullet proof it's over 10 years old now and has never failed to start first time and it hasn't had that much TLC!

Have about 600m2 of grass divided into 350 at the back and 150 and 100 either side of the driveway. The 150m2 section will be easy join now with out needing a guide wire as it can just follow the path. The 100m2 is probably too inaccessible would have to lower curbs or build a ramp and it's probably to risky crossing the driveway. The front lawns are much slower growing than the back as there's a lot of shade from the trees and hedges, the 100m2 one especially so it won't be to much of a chore to cut it by hand.

Was planning on getting a Makita LXT mower to tide me over and which size of one to get as I needed one that can mulch but there smallest one would do if I just need to cut the smaller lawn and the few spots the robomower can't access.

Smallest Wifi one is just about big enough. Would be good not to have the subscription of the bigger 4G models can't see anywhere how much that will cost.

Looks like you can add the ultrasonic sensor too that's on the dearest model.

Maybe its not charging? Bad contact?

Does it show you how charged the battery is?

Wait is that little house 250 euro.... ? Per the ad btw.

@Redlim - i placed an order for the H1500 over the weekend too!! if it all goes pear shaped we can help each other out :-)

i did find one retailer in Ireland (midlands) that said they were looking to stock it but they said they wont be getting shipments until October which is way too late.. i cant face another spring / summer of cutting lawns every weekend!

Robocleaners said they would be shipping early April so hopefully we wont have to wait too long!

Actually that fellow contacted me too and gave me the same price, which to be fair is a good supply only price. I actually went with a Local dealer and paid €3650.00 installed, but that included a little hut for the mower that is easily worth €150. Was considering buying from the other guy, but I needed nearly 800m of cable and (correct me if I’m wrong) the large install kit only includes 400m of perimeter cable. So I figured by the time I bought the additional cable, and spent a full Saturday fitting it that I was saving very little. Plus I have the added benefit of calling them back for any install issues. The machine was fitted yesterday and is flying it. The guy who installed it was dead sound and really knew his stuff. Couldn’t fault the service at all. For the record I was upgrading from a 9 or 10 year old Robomow that I fitted myself so had a bit of experience with the robotic mowers.

Plus 70 delivery..