My autonomous lawn mower thread/blog

I bought a Landroid M700 a few weeks back (not installed yet) so I'm stuck with the cantilevered shelters as it arrives at the dock from the side. You can get those for under €100.

So my mowers been on the 'no signal' blue light of dread for a few weeks. The install is effectively one big circle with a guidewire to base midway making it two big circles. Loop B is green if I put the guidewire cable into the A and B. Meaning there's degredation in loop A.

My usual tone generater, to locate splits or cuts turned up nothing. Was coming in pretty solid through the loop. So assuming it's one or more the 7 or so joins that have been made over the years in the cable finally has water ingress, I decided to bite the bullet and just rip it all up.

Zero crack but had to be done.

Bought this cable. It's the most cost effective and quality length i could find.

ECENCE Perimeter Wire Compatible... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06X1BT9NJ?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Tore out entire part of loop A up to the guide wire. Sure enough theres around 7 or 8 joins. Had done some fixes over the years from stray gardening cuts etc. Didn't realize there was so many.

Spent 3 hours today laying in the new wire. Had roughly 1.5 meters of the entire roll left , so was cutting it pretty fine 😆 .

Anyway solid green signal now and she's back in business. There's only the one join at the guide wire split now so overall a more robust install and filled that join with more dielectric grease than you could shake a stick at to prevent future contamination.

Happy out. Backs sore though 🙂

Decided it was about time I built a permanent home for the mower. It's only been a few years. Always putting it off. Cost me zero as it's stuff left over from odd jobs around the house and in laws etc.

Put some feet on to prevent rot. Haven't decided if il paint it a different colour or not. This colours prefinished t and g torn out of an old ceiling in the brother's house.

The 4G signal would be used for app control, e.g. adjusting the virtual boundary, the cutting schedule, cutting height etc. Perhaps your signal might be ok outdoors?

As an aside, I received a mail from Robocleaners saying delivery will now be delayed till May as Segway have informed them they are being impacted by the war and COVID. Robocleaners also mentioned that other brands will also have delays with their 2022 models.

Not sure yet.

I've about 1000 sqm currently being covered very well by a McCulloch Rob1000, and another 900 sqm I'm cutting manually like a caveman.

My options are to get another bot to cover the extra 900 and have two of them on the go, or get a bigger one to do it all and sell the Rob1000.

Same. Keep it as basic as possible. The dumbest simple machines possible. Constantly out just mulching off the top. You'll have a great finish. Dont need any of the fancy stuff or 4G. It's all stuff to go wrong tbh. At worst you have to replace a battery after a few years.

I'd get another cheap one for the second. Infact I'm thinking of a rob600 for my other lot that I'm manually mowing and I hate doing it.

Landroid L1000 or 2000 sqm for only €250 more...am I missing something...?

Bear in mind that you can buy Worx strimmers/drills/etc. that use the same battery and so you can buy a spare battery easier than most/all other systems. That's eventually what made me go with the Landroid over the ROB1000 or the Gardena Sileno options.

Yea it's €1249 now on pre-order. Might pull the trigger on it, and try to sell the Rob1000 on to a loving new home.

Just a tip for the Landroids on here.

Picked up the spikes there a couple of weeks back.

Has made some difference, going from stuck 5 times a day to once every few days.

thanks for that. I did come across this on a youtube review. Will definitely look at getting that.

How has yours held up with the weight (or lack of) on the front? Did you need to add anything extra to the front?

Nice. Do you mind sharing how you did that? Wired into parallel and then the charger just thinks it charging the additional capacity as a total overall?

Would anyone know what the red light on the changing base means on the Ambrogio twenty elite means? A break in the wire perhaps? I can’t find the instructions anywhere 🤦‍♂️

Oh this is an interesting development. I assumed that the larger capacity machines were bigger and/or travelled faster to cover more ground. If the only significant difference is the battery then maybe I need to re-visit my potential purchase of the L2000...