Although I have used for a while, until I had the wire correctly routed, but through trial and error and call the service hotline, everything has been clarified. To help other buyers, I would point to the following points that are not clear from the operating instructions (BA) and should be considered:
- Before laying the wire first the Frequently Asked Questions page on the website read Indego (Google: BOSCH INDEGO). Very helpful!
- The wire does not need to be buried! It is enough to move him directly on the ground. For this, the lawn needs to be cut short, however. I have the wire with the rubber mallet flat knocked during installation: With one hand clamped the free end of the wire, then tapped with the other hand the final nail in the wire down and still in the tensioned state with the "Hammer Hand" the next nail attached. This worked out fine, the wire sits nice and flat.
- I have to wire in some cases among individual concrete slabs (5 cm thick) passed that works well, the sensor detects the wire anyway.
- On straight wire sections of the wire can also be laid with a margin of less than 35 cm, with me the distance to a minimum of about 28 cm goes down, or I'm at about 30 cm. The 35 cm are needed where the mower has to turn. For me, he expresses himself now when turning partly a bit in the adjacent bushes.
- If the first time the mower a message comes that the signal is not detected by the wire, then take the mower from the charging station and wait until the display goes out. Meanwhile, before unplugging the power cord of the charging station. Insert after one minute the power cord, then turn the mower in the charging station and turn.
- Trees and other obstacles can be marked in two different ways:
1. Carry out -as in the SA described-a spur line to the tree and makes sure that the forward and return conductors of the stub are close together. When the mower drives over such a stub, then act on the wire sensor signals from and return conductors simultaneously and cancel each other out. This means that the mower does not recognize this stub! The obstacle is then the wire so again separately and running, for example, circularly around the obstacle, the mower therefore recognizes here later when mowing a single circle. When mapping the mower then runs first at the stub over, because he do not recognize. And so therefore, only the main outline of the garden will be saved. Later, when mowing the mower then encounters the circle and moves initially with vertical mower on the wire of the circle along to take in to measure and in the map. Here, the mower travels the safe side at least half to two and a half on the same circle along. It may be that he then again the next boundary line of the main contour departs from the circle to know the position of the circle again in more detail. Because the mower has no GPS in it, but only an acceleration and a yaw rate sensor and speed sensor on the wheels (like a car with ESP). In each mowing the positions of the obstacles are either corrected or verified, so that the card is stored in more detail. Incidentally, it is no matter at what angle the stub leading to the obstacle that should not be a right angle. The main thing, the two wires are close together.
2. You can also insert so as Rudolf Klein has described, so leave the port of obstacles at a distance of 30 cm between the outgoing and incoming conductors obstacles. Then the obstacle is incorporated at the first mapping. However, but the main outline of the garden will be quite complicated and sometimes gets many bends and corners. And so has the mower problems! Because as mentioned the mower without GPS, and each sensor operates basically has a certain measurement error. Then these measurement errors add up to at every corner and bend the main contour. A circle in the main outline is therefore in principle a source of error, it may be that the mower determined due to measurement errors, eg 350 ° instead of 360 °, he knows not that it is a complete circle. And with that distorts the whole map! Anyway, I had tried it in this way. So I had a main contour with five circular obstacles, all approached with 30cm distance in the stub. The mapping has not voted, the mower is then even rushed unrestrained on the charging station. Therefore, I recommend method 1, which works very reliable with me.
- Because of the mower Garden card only during the first few Mäheinsätzen provides ready (see above), it may be that the border is not mowed in the first few Mäheinsätzen, although standing on Every menu. Later that goes perfectly, anyway, I see no difference between the edge region and of remaining area in the lawn.
- Contrary to BA there in the menu under Security Options, select Auto-lock is no longer, the software has been changed. The mower therefore normally remains unlocked. Only when one of the safety sensors is activated (lift, overturn, blocking or tilt sensor), the mower will automatically lock. If no code has been set to the initial code must be entered 0000.
- At the moment I leave the Indego mow three times a week. I have adjusted to a mowing von 15 bis 18 clock clock. He mows only until he has mowed the whole area, it automatically stops and will void the remaining time.
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The Indego is in the winter break, but I could give this review again. Time for an interim report!
Our Indego still works just fine, but had two problems that I would like to:
- Last summer, a wheel had loosened. I have it tightened again and thought everything would be fine. Unfortunately, it has come loose again, but I have noticed it too late, so the following happened: The wheel has shifted to the axis outwards, so that the driver has intervened only on a small part of the plastic rim. The surface pressure was so high that the plastic rim was scraped inside. With metal plates and hot glue I could fix it for happiness itself. Conclusion: As to the wheels and check for tightness and if one wheel loosens the screw with Loctite necessarily !!!
- Shortly thereafter, remained the mower a few times with the message "Missing ground contact" available, about every fifth mowing. The reason was that the height adjustment of the front wheels ran harder with time: The front wheels are anchored in a white plastic block, which can move in a guide in the chassis on and off. I just smeared something universal grease to the metal tube, coming out of the openings of the guide. Since then he has stopped not once more.
Despite the two problems I am from Indego so excited that I have now bought a second Indego, for another land. In the newer model I have seen that the white plastic block has been redesigned on the front wheels (= better management, less tilting moment), since the problem is unlikely to occur well so quickly.
