My autonomous lawn mower thread/blog

You should be able to order it from amazon.de A bit more expensive, different vat rate I guess.

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0DT469BGY

Sorry that's the Luba mini.

From what I can see it's recommended to remap every growing season.

If the mapping is off as much as you describe, your RTK antenna must have moved slightly over winter. Delete your mapping area & start again.

Thanks a million for the reply I am not far from athlone I will contact them and see what they recommend

If your RTK has not moved then, try doing a firmware update.

They have stock here, https://www.donedeal.ie/gardenequipment-for-sale/mammotion-luba-2-3000x-5000x-robot-mower/39574880

I have the Luba 2 5000x for three weeks now. It's going great so far. I'm really conscious of how full of grass the deck gets though.

Every 4 days

I've no choice in it really. I have the working time set between 1pm and 9.30 pm. It takes 3 days to complete 3850 m2 and annoyingly 30 minutes on the 4th day to finish the whole lawn. I'm going to try to up the speed to .4 m/sec but ultimately it would still be every 3rd day minimum.

That's a massive area for sure. Why wait until 1pm? Even allowing for dew burn-off you have 3-4 hours in the morning that you are not using. Could also go a bit later at night.

Ive a 450x, not the GPS model, so dont have to worry about signal loss. no issues cutting under tree canopies.

The Flymo Easilife 800m2 would be a possibility. I've installed them at the mother in law's. The lawn would be mossy. She has 3 separate unlinked lawns and as such 3 of them. One lawn is large and basically square ~ 400m2. The others smaller and slightly more complex with areas accessed by a narrower channel. They all have kerbs, walls and trees in them. Installing the boundary wire is simple, just time consuming as I buired it. You can peg it out on the surface and then bury it at a later date if happy with the location. The mower is controlled by Bluetooth from a mobile app or by the LCD display. They are just dumb and randomly bounce around the lawn, but they cut it evenly. Setting the correct schedule is key and for the complex lawn, the % amount of time it does each area - as in it'll travel 45m along the guide wire 30% of the time before starting cutting to do the far section. They all run the 'lawnsense' option which stops them cutting 'air'. Works very well in my view - they are often just charging as there is nothing to cut. They work well enough in wet weather. Just need to clear the cutting deck at times and also the rear single wheel, as it tends to gather a ball of grass around the axle.

You can probably get one for less than 1000 Euro. Don't get the Go models as they lack a digital display on the mower, which is handy as otherwise using the app only. Flymo packaged blades are on Amazon cheap enough. They are basically Husqvarna branded ones - 2/3 price of buying them in Husqvarna packaging.

Just make sure you download the latest firmware for them. The models she has are from 2023 and they constantly stopped with a 'machine lifted' error. The later firmware lowered the sensitivity of that. Sure they occasionally still get stuck in places, especially the more complex lawn as someone else put that wire in and ran it too close to too many obstacles, which the mower manages to run up against and can't free itself.

If your relative has some basic technical know how, then getting them going again when stuck is fairly simple.
Effectively - Press Stop button on top - Enter the PIN using arrow keys - Press Go - Press OK. Shut lid.

You can also increase the pathing width, reduce the border laps, and no go zone laps too.

Yes Our Luba2 5000 works fine with Canopy… The Luba 1 struggled….. the AWD on Luba is outstanding and it was born for slopes.

Got the dreaded no loop signal for my husqvarna. Have rabbits so have had issues once or twice before. So set off on my hands and knees and done the full perimeter and see no signs of it being dug, then got the trusty am radio which i have used previously but could not find any break in signal. Then to ensure its not a problem at the charging station i disconnected the guide wire, and connected it to one side and got the green light which i'd say means firstly its not a problem with anything bar the loop wire, and additionally narrowed down the problem to one section of the loop wire. Any suggestions what i can do next to try find the problem, as i said i have had this a few times before but always found the fault. Is cutting the wire in sections and connecting up new loop wire an option to try and eliminate which area is fine and therefore narrow the search. Any suggestions appreciated

I bought the "KOLSOL F02 Underground Cable Locator" to find my issue. Like you I tried the radio on the broken boundary wire all the way to where it joined the guide wire but failed to find the problem. Turns out the issue was a wet connector which the installer had put in only meters from the base station - I guess the wire spool ran out on him. I'd have probably found it via the radio method in the end but I was looking elsewhere as I really expected it to be another area.

The F02 found the issue within a few mins. Expensive but was on offer at the time and I had run out of ideas…. At least I have it for any future issues that may occur.