My autonomous lawn mower thread/blog

I had a similar issue where the robot kept changing direction all the time with similar grass/moss setup.

One solution is to remove the black bumper from the bottom of mower to increase clearance. Worked for me.

You can see it removed here too - I also have taken off the front comb to see if it runs for longer without clogging when cutting in the wet:

I'm still cutting at the max height (60mm). I don't think my lawn would allow for any lower without prepwork.

John

Thats good to know, I hope mine will head that way too. I have only been running the robot mower for about 5 or 6 weeks now so probably a little early to see the full benefit, but it does look better than being scalped/muddied by the rideon. By prep-work I meant taking out all the lumps/ bumps/ holes/ roots etc from the lawn/field - not any prep wrt pre-cutting. Perhaps I may be able to drop the cut height eventually, so you found that a shorter cut leads to better elimination of all the weeds & moss?

Fantastic, you're a star! It's working away now without any issues and going in straighter lines too!

Hi all,

Will a husky 450x manage to travel through a 2ft wide gap? This gap is about 12ft long and is about 2ft wide. It is joining the main lawn to a smaller piece

This gap is not grass (currently mulch but will lay astro turf).

Would it help to lay a guide wore through this gap?

B

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A bit unrelated but have you ordered replacement blades for the LIDL mower?

Not unrelated at all - this was my next port of call.

I had read that the 1000 sqm bot uses M5 screws & ordered the ones I thought were identified as being suitable but TBH it was a quick click and buy - I didn't check the screw thickness etc

What arrived has presumably an M4 screw - neither the blades nor screws are suitable for the PMRDA-20_Li

The link to the ones I ordered copied below, however the product listed now looks different (not gold colour).

DO NOT ORDER THESE FOR THE PMRDA 20-Li A1

I will have a look for compatible blades and post again if I find some that work. Another youtube poster suggested that blades for the Honda Miimo may fit, certainly the hole size in the blade is bigger so that looks like a good start.

John

I must check base station for slugs actually as the rest of the garden is riddled with them for some reason!

regarding wiring. I use round up rather than strimmer where they are.

I did it for a while but found alot of the grass sticking to the mower as the grass is damp at night. Its not the end of the world, it will still do the job but just decided to switch it back to daylight hours.

From the Amazon Prime thread.

Einhell are the same as either Aldi or Lidl own-brand but no idea if the batteries are compatible.

I own both the Einhell and the latest Lidl machine. I use them for different lawns. Have to say the Einhell mower is far superior to the Lidl unit. Both in build quality and cut. The Einhell is a much more substantial and better built machine.

I didn't even think of interchanging the batteries. I will have to take a look.

I bought one of the parkside mowers in lidl it worked fine for about a week then I got a message saying it had gone outside the boundary by the time I got home it had switched off and now won't switch back on has this happened anyone else

Yes battery is fully charged and the screen on the mower says did say when it was charging but it just won't switch on I'm waiting on a call back from the service center with a week but at this point I'm half thinking of taking it back and buying either the einhell one or the worx landroid

Reading this thread has been an excellent resource, so thanks a lot guys/gals!

I'm pretty satisified with the idea of a Worx Landroid model and am going to pull the trigger.

My only question is that my garden is 575-600m2, if even that.

Would a M700 model suffice for this? Or do I need to pony up for the L800 or L1000?

Just to update this.

I bought a handled AM radio and tried to locate the damage but couldnt. It would have been more effective if the wire was broken but since it wasnt, it was near impossible to hear any signal differences.

I had to approach this another way. My lawn is like a large dickie bow shape with the base near the narrowing center section. So I intentionally cut the far side wire at half way where the far end narrows towards the center and attached a new length of cable from the base to that cut. Effectively cutting the lawn in two. I tested the new shorted left boundary ring. Wire missing still there.

Then removed that wire joint and put it on the right handside of the cut and again, made a new boundary ring on for the right hand side of the lawn. Bingo. The robot error message went away and the robot starting cutting normally, albeit inside the right half of the lawn new boundary. OK, so there is an issue somewhere on the left 500sqm of lawn..

Where I have small loose stone edging, I replaced that entire 50ft section of cable, going from the base to 5 feet past the far end of the edging. I read that stones can damage untrenched cables with foot / wheel barrow traffic even though my lawn didnt look like it was a risk as the lawn swallowed up the cable a few weeks after the installation. Anyway, connected the base and again it worked. No errors!

Removed the temp cable which split the lawn in two. 3m'd every cut connection (bought new ones on Amazon) as I went; testing with the robot after every 3m repair I did. No problems now, running like it was brand new. Marked and made note of all 3m joins.

I have a Worx, and one thing I would say about it, is it is very prone to getting stuck and having to be moved.

Had a robomow beforehand and it rarely got stuck, but the Worx, using the same garden profile gets stuck regularly and leaves troughs and holes in the garden and perimeter. I have now at least 5 areas in my garden where I have had to place plastic mesh netting on the grass and peg it down to give the Worx traction so it won't get stuck, and I expect to have to add a few more.

Wet summer, yes, but not overly impressed with it's performance/traction issues.