Installation is simple, disadvantage are the high demands placed on the admission of the charging station. They must be located within the installation. Here experiment helps if you do not want to accept. With some greenery planted at the appropriate place, but you can hide so well the ugly part. Who has a separate garden, unfortunately, have to put the cable in a loop around the house and then implement the mower, which is not going anywhere. Solution would be a second charging station for this case. Then it can go about it.
What stands out immediately: The mower is incredibly quiet. You could let him mow at night actually, if not for the fully automatic Bewässerungssytem would work sensibly. Both together moves the time for gardening to almost zero. On lawn care is only working for the Turbotrimmer, while I use the inexpensive 400 Li, who exactly comes to each edge as opposed to thread trimmers and thus caught the corners, which does not reach the robotic mower. These corners can be reduced to zero with good garden design, when you realized the lawn boundary with flat plates and thus navigable and makes Baumscheiben teilbefahrbar.
On our very flat and dry base the relationship between charging time and working very well in warm weather, measured 67 minutes to charge and 80 minutes mowing at 18 ° ambient temperature, so as in the operating instructions better described, which I find very acceptable. Care except the charging needs of the mower still now and then. The fine lawn rest is hard as concrete under dehumidification and may limit the mobility of the blades. Therefore, I clean the mower every few weeks. Spare knife he did not yet after six weeks, and they are also inexpensive and very easy to install.
Kids will love the Mower. However, you should explain how the mower is working and that you can not be accepted in accordance with the operation under it to them once. Curious by raising more children he escapes by switching off. The PIN code in normal security mode is due, otherwise he no longer drives. It makes sense! Otherwise the mower is quite compatible with conventional, cheerful garden bustle. Small toys should not be on the lawn, they can damage the blades. Larger toys like balls, he pushes aside or apply them by automatic impulse, as in children's vehicles or lawn chairs. Dog and cat usually shun him immediately or after the first contact.
The Gardena R40Li- a great pet and a further step towards the maintenance-free garden!
Edit after the first mowing season: Is it all over. The device is really a great help. The lawn looks class.
Startup problems: Edit after a few weeks of the second season. The long loop of about 150m, which connects the front yard and the main garden around the house remained intact. The station has wintered outside - contact spray to terminals and loading plates - done. The mower was cleaned in the fall, loaded and knife robbed been parked in the garden shed. Used New knife and already drove the mower going without recharging. The lawn looks tiptop, this is the first season where I renounce in the spring on scarifying and use of weed killers. Now the R40Li mows just on Sunday. The decibel I can not measure it, but subjectively it is so quiet that you hardly ever hears him from 10m distance from the noise in our purely residential area. Accordingly, there is no trouble with the neighbors, more joy when they observe with acquaintances as they pass the fascinating garden equipment at work. What more do you want?
Edit in the summer of the second season: The weeds (clover) comes yet again slowly. This will prevent the mower is not so. But the Clover spreads not so fast. On the subject of noise, the environment seems to be important. A second robot is with a neighbor in use, where the acoustics between two facades enhances the noise of the mower and you should not let him run at night or on a Sunday. The square power seems to me nonsense. Our mowers needs only every third day to go into use. In a land with few adverse corners as ours, I would use the R40Li after the experience on much larger plots of land. This, because it does is to 700sqm just as a note now a R70Li for land.
Edit after the second season: Shortly before season end blocked the engine. Of course, over the weekend, so I as a hobbyist decided to build the mower apart to go to get to the base. The disassembly would have been possible with standard tools and average skill. In fact, the brushless motor for the mowing had fallen apart. A dissolved screw blocked the engine. This must not happen actually. Fortunately it was enough, the engine assembling to bring it back into operation. On that occasion I was able to the inner workings of the R40 Li inspect: Both boards look like new, inside is no dirt, dust or moisture - circumferential rubber seals do a good job. The installation was simple and quite feasible.
