My autonomous lawn mower thread/blog

Blue means the signal isn't very strong and has resistance outside its design.

First as you've don't check all the connections at the rear of base station that's the loop wire and guide wire.

If they're all good and still have a fault the problem is with any connections you have in the wire along it's run. They're either faulty or water ingress has gotten in and made some connection to ground.

First place to check would be the guide wire to loop connection. Then if you've had any repaired breaks in the loop or guide. Replace the fitting.

Yes it should be solid green.

Would be interesting to get a poll in here there seems to be a lot of Husqvarna problems reported but not sure if that is down to them being problematic or more people owning them.

Good shout.

There's a setting on mine where you can disable the ultrasonic sensors. if you do this it only runs at slow speed so that it doesn't have hard collisions. When the sensor is enabled, the machine slows down when it approaches obstacles.

One of the reasons I'm telling people to keep it simple.

I'm about 5 years into my mccullogh ownership. Few cable breaks one or two caused by myself. And one slug eating through the charging board on the charger and that's all I've had.

Unit cost me 600 on a black Friday deal. I board and a battery refresh last year and it just keeps going and going. Per year cost its saved me hundreds in fuel. And immeasurable time.

Go dumb, go simple.

Jist bought a worx wr147 to replace my robomow rs615pro.

Anyone interested in an rs615 for parts ?

Also have brand new battery for it

As I said seems you bought an expensive machine with too much to go wrong with it.

It's not really a statement to not buy a robotmower. The same could be said for any fancy machine. The more bits the more likely hood of failure.

I have a powered push mower for a strip out at the road but you wouldn't catch me near one for the entire garden.

I'm looking at a landlord or Kress model at the moment, wondering how robo mowers in general deal with goal posts and nets. Don’t want the nets ripped up on the first day

I bought one of those, an L15 delux. It worked very well for the first 15 months, then had a problem which took them 8 months to fix under warranty. It then failed again within 3 months. This time they told me it was out of warranty. Had to take them to the small claims court to get my money back. Now looking for a replacement.

The motors designed to stop when over pressured. As the blades catch for example cordyline australis leafs. Which are in effect strands of cord.

Their will be zero impact on your motor. The machine will stop.

As for goalposts tape all the outer net to the poles with electric tape. The mower will just bump and go opposite way.

I’m heading for 10yrs with mine and never had a cable break. The cable is quite strong so I’m curious how the cable gets broken when it’s underground?

I know some have had dogs dig it up but apart from that it shouldn’t break unless it’s not the proper cable.

I have 2 sections of cable, one section is underground installed by the installer with a trenching tool, the 2nd section is overground installed by myself.

Nearly all my breaks have been in the underground section.

My theory is that the installer applied to much tension when laying the cable and it got damaged when it came up against stones and pebbles.

The damaged section then corrodes and swells over time and eventually it's unable to carry the voltage.

My breaks are rarely clean and are very hard to locate, but they usually seem to occur after very cold or very dry weather which causes a bit of soil movement.

As I understand it that extra piece is an option for large gardens or gardens with signal interference so not a requirement for everyone?

Just read a review that says the "optional" Epos kit is a requirement for wire free mowing which makes the whole thing a lot pricier. The pricing is a bit misleading tbh.

Our two Yardforce cheap and bog standard mowers got released again for the year on Saturday and have the place under control fairly quickly!