My autonomous lawn mower thread/blog

Simple is best, complex is worst.

Why not start with 1 parkside first and see how you go.

If you can lie a wire on the ground and tap a peg over it you are good to install.

Such a helpful insight, thank you very much LubaDriver! I am struggling to find the 2 in Ireland at the moment as deliveries seem to be for end of this month. I have read and watched nearly every review available at this point, so am now familiar with software uypdate issues of the past and tha tthe camera is only now just being implemented. I also believe the ability to mow patterns gets activated next month as well.

But I have convinced myself to get the Luba 2 3000. I have also emailed Mammotion to ask why I cant order to Ireland from their EU website.

Much appreciate your advice on changing the cut direction, I had not considered it being able to keep so close to original cut that it would make tracks in the lawn. So is there a manual option on the app to do one E->W cut and then one N→S cut per week>?

I mean multiple ones eventually maybe 2 but pick up 1 see how you get on with it. Low cost entry good test.

Mine takes 4 plus hours to cut without the robot. Essentially 2 large lawns separate by drive and then outside garden and across the road

Why not order from the UK site and have it shipped to no, then use thepostalstore to deliver it to you. That how I got my Luba one delivered

Hi Folks, question re GPS mowers, do they deal with "under trees" well or ok?

A lot of the boundary in my place has trees, shrubs overhanging (maybe 4 to 5 feet above the grass), does it drive on and figure it all out or what's the story?

I have the Navimow and it struggled a lot with tree canopies initially but they've introduced the vision fence attachment which is a mounted camera to help it see where it's going in poor gps signal areas as well as avoid obstacles. They've also released software updates so it's working perfectly under trees now.

Got the dreaded no loop signal on my 430X, in since early 2019 afair.

The base station has no light on it. Tested the fuse in the plug and tested the socket as well and all fine.

I tried the power block directly in to the back of the base station and still no light.

I got the multimeter in to the white plastic connector that comes out of the power block and when I power it up I get 26v but that falls to 0.3v in about 20 seconds.

I reckon the power block is done in. Anyone experienced this before or anything to add to the troubleshooting?

Cheers!

The cables into the white block are prone to pulling and breaking, happened to mine, also check the entire length of the cable they can get nicks in them. Unlikely to be power block. Check the voltage the the power block to the extension cable.

It's usually extension cable issue. Replacement mine last week as connector into the base station finally gave up the ghost.

Unhook everything bring the base station inside and the charger plug into a different socket and check if you get blue light. I bought a new charger 2 years back thinking mine was bad. It wasn't it ended up just being jaunty terminals.

If you get blue light. Tie short bit of cable between the L1 and 2 and see if you get green.

Often the draw of the boundary cable can mess with the load balancing . Eliminate as much as you can.

Finally the PCB board in the basestations can go to ****. I've replaced 2 in 6 years a slug each time ate the surface and got fried.

I reckon the power block is done in.

I’d say so too. I’ve had that go.
could also be base station but from what you’ve tried sound like PSU.

Where are you based? Get a loan of another one to see or call to a dealer and ask them to plug it in rather than ripping it open.

I wasn’t clear but I meant the base station.

Thanks, only getting it going this week. It's been in the garage since I got it last October. It's going great today.

A complete newbie to this. The ride on has given up the ghost and we are thinking of an autonomous mower. Have a mostly flat acre of lawn, a slight gradient here and there, nothing that you'd notice visually, surrounded by trees, which in itself may be an issue before we begin due to little branches/leaves etc falling randomly. Have no desire to laying a boundary wire though, ..and just want an easy life, obviously when we're investing big, we want something that can't actually do the job and not be clogging or upset over a twig every 5 minutes...

Is there such a robust machine on the market? Any names, advice, the good and the bad please.

twigs are also not an issue, mower will mow over smaller ones. Anything bigger you'd have needed to pick up for a regular mower too

If anyone is interested I've listed my yard force on adverts.. put lawn is so small it's total overkill for it

http://www.adverts.ie/26710252

amazon don't delivery those to Ireland

co-op store has greenworks 750m for sale - reduced from €1000 to 600

huh - 400m will deliver to ireland now

but still not the 700m or 1000m

same, that was one expensive slug 🙈

You don't have to bury the cable. It's clipped to the lawn surface and them settles into the grass roots in a few months. Common misconception is the cable needs to be buried.

I replaced some last year as I reshaped my lawn was looking for my original cable which was laid and clipped some years back it was 4 inches below the surface. Literally disappeared