My autonomous lawn mower thread/blog

I have an IMOW and fitted these as I had traction issues around the perimeter , due to repeated driving to and from the docking station. I found they tore up the perimeter more so then removed them and refitted the original wheels, these are however less invasive then those you have linked as are plastic. I then went and bought some stone and filled in the areas in my border where I had traction problems and that has worked better

https://lawnmowerpartsonline.ie/product/art-2200-traction-wheel-set-69097000425?gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw9pGjBhB-EiwAa5jl3Atvzg-mnzJgRe44204DH2uojur2NqaiB4CbpH6Adl_83huAT8RzKBoCKFwQAvD_BwE

Above comment meant for wexfordman2 about robocleaners

I'll have a robot lawnmower coming up in 2 weeks - Parkside for €200, prob need to buy a separate battery

There you go, from twitter

Hi Ginger , as mentioned the wheels I highlighted and bought were plastic and are the genuine Stihl enhanced traction wheels

In terms of would I buy another one, mine has been fine and the agent has been pretty good, would have preferred a Huski if agent was near by

Interstingly my agent has now moved to sell Ambrogio

I think about 10 days!

The clown installed the base station entirely wrong. Not sure how seriously to take his video. Huge amount of effort on the video and he installs the base station in a difficulty position unnecessarily rights parallel to a wall for no apparent reason. Half suspect a Husquvarna employee.

I got the Wr147e and self install, I don't think the option to have it installed applies to Ireland.

Install is quite easy, just time consuming. I would order extra pegs and a bag of connectors to join or rejoin cable as well.

Had an issue with my boundary wire so the robot mower was out of action for 10 days. This coincided with an apparent explosion in growth everywhere in the garden. Had to manually mow before sending him out again --- jaysus you'd wanna see the amount of grass I took off it! So happy I'm not having to do a manual cut every couple of weeks now!

Just wondering if anyone has tried this or had any experience of this process and if it actually works? What would be minimum distances between the two peninsulas I wonder. See link to discussion article. Trying to stop 430X from going into a narrow passage only when it’s following the guidewire as the passage is very narrow (70-80cm, 5m in length) with kerbing on one side and hedge on the other. Don’t mind if the passage if not cut. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Automower Passage Mode: How Does It Work? – Robolever

We got the Beos stainless steel wheels off amazon.de, has really improved the performance on wet/damp grass, big improvement. (bolt on spikes)

The landroid has the option of doing zones, which definitely looks like they'd make sense for you

https://wiki.worx.com/en/how-to-set-up-multi-zone

You might also be better off treating the large obstacles as part of the actual boundary rather than an island. You lave a 30cm gap between the wires. The grass on the inside will get cut when the mower is doing the boundary routine.

Before I made this change I had a pond area that the mower used to just drive around forever til it ran out of battery. another advantage is that when the mower is doing the boundary routine, it will do around the obstacles too. The negative is it segments your lawn even more, but i think the trade offs are worth it. At least leave yourself some additional wire in those areas to give you the option of doing it either way.

The other thing you could try is on hard objects such as the green house (assuming its not glass right at the bottom) and the veg bed, you could also try no boundary wire. We have a kids play set thing that the boundary wire doesn't know about the mower navigates it fine, just bumps into it and moves on. May not be an option for the green house depending on what the mower will bump into (or if it will bump into anything if the door is left open)

For which mower to buy, I can't really comment on the Gardena, but my worx M1000 is on its 4th year of mowing and still going strong. Would happily buy another worx if I was in the market again.

Seems like it's on all of them as far as I can tell.

You could just do an island on the pool and leave the others. Don't be afraid to try out an approach and if it's not working out how you like, change it up. The wire can be extended or changed fairly easily at the start before it starts getting absorbed into the ground.

Which ever brand you get, I'd say you'll need to buy more guide wire and pegs . Rough calculation, you have about 175m of boundary without even including the obstacles, the worx only comes with 150

I made a video a few years ago that I think is still valid for this, just skip to the last two sections, tips on buying and installation (they are time stamped in the description)

https://youtu.be/WtlK9h4nLeA

Husqvarna 310 base station docking problem, Husqvarna 310 is not docking- it goes up close to the base to the left and right ,travels close but eventually runs of battery and stops. I thought it was antenna problem under base station , but I now think it is due to circuit board in base station.

Any experts on husvarna 300 series out there?

Here is my problem and the steps I took to trouble shoot, and why I think it is circuit board.

My Husqvarna 310 will not dock as per above.

1) I swapped out the base station with another base station and it docked properly which leads me to believe it is the base station.

2) I checked power from Transformer, and am getting 28V

3) I have continuity on the 2 antenna cables under the base station

4) I have 28V going in at the connector in the circuit pcb board.

5) I have 26 volts between the spade connectors left and right boundary

5) I have 4.2 V between right spade connector (negative) and the guide spade

6)Robotic mower services channel on utube says the voltage should be 28V and 4.5V respectively , however , on the base station that works , the voltage is 26V and 4V respectively, so I don't think it is a voltage problem.

7) When I swap out the circuit board on base station, it docks properly.

8) I create a new loop signal as part of the process, and I am using the test guide wire home facility. Guide wire is set to 0 mins.

All this would point to circuit board.

However, before I take it back to dealer, would anybody have any other ideas of what it could be? Thanks