Construction and installation:
-The Question of lawn on which the R70li is used, is about 620 square meters with me. The robotic mower is designed for up to 700 square meters.
-There Are on the lawn also trees, shrubs and a walkway of concrete slabs available. The boundary wire can be easily passed, even if it is in such an area a little time and energy costs. Trees can be excluded from the cutting area by a so-called "island" that works just fine.
-The Boundary wire can also be laid easily under paving stones or concrete slabs. Those who wish can also dig the cable (lawn). The recommended eg. If you want to scarify later.
-As A location for the charging station Mähroboters an area is recommended in turf. Left and right of the charging station should be about 1.5 meters square, so there is enough space for the entrance. It is also possible to let the robotic mower drive a narrow, medium or wide "corridor". In addition to the boundary wire (border around the lawns) you put a guide wire. On the basis of the guide wire is the robot after mowing the charging station. The guide wire is thus transferred within the area to be mowed area. When the robot now leaves the narrow corridor, to make lane in the lawn because where the guide wire has been laid. Therefore, the setting of a Mittlerer or wide corridor is recommended in order to avoid the formation of lanes.
-Will The lawn chosen as the location for the charging station, formed after a certain time including a brown surface because at this point, of course, no grass grows. Meanwhile, you should be aware. Rain makes the robotic mower or Charging Station from nothing. With us, the charging station is on the terrace (Plastersteine). The corridor is narrow here because of walls and roof pillars. To avoid it, the robot wanders around the output can be found on the lawn, you can set a "long-term objective" in the robot. This aims at ensuring that the robot moves a preset number of meters initially only straight (along the guide cable) and do not start to mow. So you can a few meters of narrow passages bridge well, if necessary. However, the options can then be medium and wide corridor no longer use when narrow passages in the garden along the guide wire are structurally conditionally available. Total 2 long-term goals can be set - another is to let secluded lawns approach targeted.
Operation:
-The Robot is 4 days a week in use. The 620 square meters are well edited. The average results speak for themselves, every now and then to stay single straws or small tufts are, but not too disruptive. On the lawn edges must be reworked when the lawn is limited by higher edges. This is also true for Benzuinrasenmäher because you hereby not go anywhere. The volume when mowing is very low, so it can also be mowed on Sunday.
-The Automatic mode works great. Setting the weekdays, start and end time of mowing and off you go. Note: After pressing the automatic mode must be activated again the Stop button. This mode works only with a fully charged battery. So do not be surprised if not equal everything goes in the first test runs at first, as one might imagine.
-By Plastic flap that protects the function keys, you can not see through. You have to press the stop button to see what the robot is indicating (Status, Messages, etc.) so Always. That's a bit annoying when you install, later if everything works automatically, no longer quite so distracting.
-The Disposal of cut grass is also dispensed with. Since the robot is several days (depending on the lawn) in use, "shaved" the robot regularly the lawn. The small stubble serve as nutrients, which increases the quality of the lawn.
Purification: The underside of the robot is very winding. With a small broom to grass residues can brush off. However, something is always hanging. On the charging station itself accumulates occasional dirt and water should be cleaned regularly. And important: The underside of the robot must not be cleaned with water spray. Characterized the device would be damaged. So if sprinkler has in the garden, should leave off this, when the robot is on the way.
Power depending Here I could not detect any significant change compared to the usual monthly consumption values. In any case, can now also be saved fuel and oil for the old lawnmower.
So overall a worthwhile investment and saves a week 2-3 hours of work. Compared with the conventional mowing with eg. Petrol lawnmowers of robot mows randomly. So it takes some time until everything is nicely mowed (depending on the size of the lawn). Because you have to get used to. Additional functions would be desirable, for example, the establishment of different corridor widths along the route of the guide wire (not just a width for the entire route special division into several corridors). More than 2 remote start targets would be helpful and the cleaning would be more productive in a less narrow area below the robot.
Supplement dated 05 September 2014:
-The Lawn mower is now about 5 months in operation. The unit works perfectly and has become a very reliable helper in the garden.
Maintenance: There is almost no maintenance. One should sweep off the device at least once a week with a short broom (cleaned from below always without water) to remove grass clippings that accumulate beneath the mower. It should also include the mobility of the razor blades are tested. This should, despite screwing, stay loose and flexible. By bad weather conditions and grass clippings, the blades may be heavier than normal. Since the blades are attached to a disc which rotates during the mowing operation, they should be movable in order to obtain the best cutting results. If 4-5 days per week is mowed, the blades every 2-3 months should be replaced with new ones and sharp blades. Changing the blade is very simple and takes only a few minutes.
