Lidl Parkside 20V 1000M2 robot mower review

When are people putting their mowers back to work? There's been a lot of growth in the past few weeks so put mine out yesterday, is it soon?

Put mine back out yesterday…..due to how soft the lawn is its getting bogged down in a few spots, but working away overall……third season with it so touch wood it keeps going……it has paid for itself already at this stage

Yeah mine does the same, the only thing I've been doing is just lifting it back in to charge each time. I'm planning to lift the docking station and just straighten out the wire running under it as much as possible in the next few weeks. From what I can see, most issues with it are down to the cable at the docking station, I only set it up quickly so didn't play around with it properly yet. 2 years later...

I put a piece of chicken wire in front of the dock to help with the mower skidding and not docking. I pegged the chicken wire down with the perimeter cable pegs. It works really well. Also the grass grows up through chicken wire so you dont see it. if the wheels start spinning they grip on to the chicken wire to give traction

I an finding these good

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Anyone get a replacement power supply anywhere? Mine got submerged in water and is not fried so wondering is there anywhere to get a replacement...

They've a solar charger next week which might do ye. Along with a new 1250sqm robot mower without the need for a boundary wire, be interesting to see how that review goes.

Is it constant or occasional?

last year I had a similar issue - think it was making poor contact with the charging head/docking head.

Can’t remember if I cleaned the contacts on the base.

Got these delivered yesterday, blades look good but the screws that came with them were both too thin and long so had to re-use the existing screws.

Anyone know of any blades that come with the correct screws ?

Had similar with mine but just done a major clean underneath and it seems to be working fine now. Initially it was just the higher than normal grass it was encountering but now that its down to a normal height its flying it again.

A few people have talked online about removing the combs in front of the blades and that seems to make it much more reliable, haven't removed mine yet but thinking about it.

On third season with this mower and this year I have had the same problem of it randomly stopping with emergency stop showing on the screen. I cleaned it and did all that and it was still doing it. So I took it apart to see if there was moisture anything on the inside.

It was completely dry on inside which was good.

I did find a ball of solder rolling around which could have been triggering the magnetic sensors. There was also a loose sensor which I tightened up. Put it back together and it's going perfect since.....

I don't know if I actually did anything or it was coincidence or because I had to give it a clean as I was taking it apart. But I am delighted to get a third season out of it🤞

As regards the front and side guards, I have a 250sqm Parkside 'City' robot mower and have about 45mm of moss in this kids play area. 45mm is the max the cut height will go and the guard kept getting stuck on the moss every few feet.

Removed the guard and problem solved. Mows like a champ now. Will address the moss issue with scarifying, Mobacter and aerating.

Picked up one of the solar chargers in Lidl at the weekend. We had been hoping to move the mower's docking station to a different part of the garden (where there isn't any mains available), but the solar unit just isn't very good.

A big issue is that the solar charger can only output 1A to the robot mower, compared to 2.5A from the mains charger. This means that the mower will stay docked over twice as long to charge, which is a big loss of mowing time.

You can route the mains through the solar unit, but even if you do, you are still limited to the 1A output.

The main dealbreaker though is that the boundary wire signal goes down when the solar panel loses sufficient light (at dusk), even when the battery in the solar charging station is full. The upshot is that the mower loses the signal when it's out cutting and stops in place.

This is so terrible, that I'm not convinced that my unit isn't faulty. However, everything else seems to work, so I can only assume that this is working as intended. Routing the mains through the solar unit 'fixes' this, but I don't know why you would buy this kit in the first place if mains is available.