My autonomous lawn mower thread/blog

So, i got the lawnmaster ocumow 18 mx last week. Its my first experience of a robomower and overall its pretty good.
Very simple to setup - it found satellites quickly and locates the docking/charging station well. The optical sensor is good, spots the non-lawn areas with no issue. The mowing time is around 2.5hrs, charges in around 2hrs.

I hand mowed our lawns first, and cordoned off the areas that werent obviously 'not lawn'. After a bit of hit & miss, due mostly to me not blocking off all areas it worked away no problem.
We have 3 lawns (~400m2, ~250m2 & ~200m2) and all are unconnected, hence why i got this particular mower, for the smaller lawns i used the drop & mow function with the charger on the big lawn. D&M just means that the mower works away until the battery goes flat.. that worked fine too.

The issue that im seeing is that the random cutting function suits the two smaler lawns fine but i dont believe will be suitable for the large lawn, even with several mows each day. That method doesnt seem to be effective on large lawns unless the mower has a very large battery.

Im disappointed as its really the big lawn that I wanted this robomower solution for. I think its a really good solution for smaller lawns though.

So, im deciding between sending it back or maybe offering for sale… havent decided for sure yet.

did you yours state it will be EU plug when you bought it? or wasnt specified?

Which X model did you get? Happy with it?

330x so far absolutely delighted with it..much more efficient machine, the h3000e used to take 14 hours to cut my lawn, the 330x takes less than 7..a lot nicer cut on grass with the 6 blade disc..only have it a few days and have not seen how it performs in rain and wet grass

Hi @Dazed2020 I can only speak for the Luba, yes it is easy to adjust a boundary or change a no-go zone. The ability to easily map and remap (without moving wires or having to get the supplier back in) was a key feature that I wanted.

My smallest no-go area I have is around a pole for a clothes line. You basically drive the mower around the obstacle as tight as what the software will recognise. I'm not sure exactly how small an area will be recognised, but the diameter of mine is ~1m. It might be possible to get it a bit tighter. However, since I have to take out the strimmer anyway, I wasn't too bothered about trying to get it tighter.

I haven't had any issue with hazards, but I follow a check and remove approach before I send her out. However, if it encounters a hazard that it can't deal with, it will just stop and send a message. If you have small items that could be left on the lawn and not necessarily easy to see (i.e. tennis ball for the dog) then count them. If you can see all, say 5, items on the tarmac then you are good to go.

My lawn is flat so I can't comment regarding steep slopes.

Cheers for this.

Yes, I believe Kress pretty much the same. In my case it would be going from a wired model to wire-free. Changing boundary wire (and the subsequent connection breaks) has been my biggest frustration and the reason I'm looking to upgrade. When it works, it's very good (I wouldn't say great) but it gets stuck/slips out of bounds far too often.

I'd absolutely recommend it for fairly simple gardens where no changes to the wire should be expected. But complexity is not this things friend

Where are you based?

According to my friend at OpenAI, called ChatGPT, this company looks ideal: https://northxsouth.ie/blogs/news/flymo-robot-lawnmower-repair-service-ireland?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Thanks again to @WildWater and @Pique.

I pulled the trigger on the Luba2 3000x direct from their website. They're offer a garage and stickers! for free with the order.

Anybody ordered recently know how long delivery has been taking?

have a 430X on its 7th season, a issue has arisen think could be battery related. One morning last week it was completely dead open the hatch and the screen was blank. Left it a while and turned it off and on a few times and it started going again. Now when i try to put it mowing the mower lifted alarm keeps going off and i have to imput the pin to stop it, this happens every time so have knock it off again . As i said its on its 7th season and i think they say the battery should last 4/5 years so maybe this is the problem, looking at the app it has 9,478 hrs runtime and 3315 charging cycles. Anyone have similar issue or any ideas ?

i was able to go into a menu showing the sensor status which says yes after the Lifted L which indicates some issue with the left sensor,

Just to clarify, does it show Yes and then No depending on whether you lift that corner of the mower?

Or are you saying it is showing Yes all the time even when the mower isnt lifted? If that, then yes the sensor needs replacing. Should be easy enough to replace yourself. All these parts are plug 'n play.

Sorry it says yes all the time even when the mower is not lifted.

ok, that’s easy then. That sensor needs replacing.

I just received my Luba2, came with a European plug though there was no mention of that anywhere I could see when ordering or on the description (I did try to look).

Did/will Mammotion send you an Irish(UK) plug? A travel adaptor for the European plug isn't exactly going to be suitable for outdoors