Robovacs good or not?

[Prohibiting]

Thanks all.

I'm going to have to create an Excel spreadsheet to keep tabs on everything!

[Ambleton]

I got a eufy 30C in the black friday deals on amazon. Arrived today. Charged him up (Derek) and set him off now just to test him out. My wife hoovered with Henry today...

Derek has already had a complaint that his drop sensors were getting dirty, gave them a wipe, then a bit later he said his roller was jammed... RUBBISH... or so I thought. I flipped him belly side up to find his central roller was completely wrapped in a web of my wife's long blonde hair. It represented more of a paint roller than his bristled brush, I was absolutely shocked! I cleared it and sent him on his merry way.

After a while he was done and he returned back to his feeding station... I removed his cargo to find it was filled to the brim... NO WAY....

Chuffed to bits, I guess that after a few days most of the embedded hair will be removed so it wont cause a problem in future

[Pheo]

How well do the non radar ones find their way back home?

I have one place this could sit in the kitchen which is in a deep reveal for French doors, so about 50cm wide, but with a sofa next to it, so it would need to be able to figure out how to go around the side of the sofa...

[boxst]

dibbers006 said:

Mine returns like a drunken teenager from a night glugging white lightning in the park.

However, it finds its dock 99% of the time.

But if you have an efficiency tick its random bumbling could simmer your piss.

Which is also how it cleans. So it is good, but it needs the whole 100 minutes of battery to deal with the randomness of the cleaning. And if you do have any form of OCD you will have a bad time as it does the same area multiple times.

[Prohibiting]

Yep, I just let mine crack on every day. It also finds its dock after each drunken session too.

He's only got stuck once and that was because I left my laptop on the floor where he proceeded to try to climb on top.

[Prohibiting]

Just spoke to Eufy and they said it will take 30-days from recieving the order for referal funds to go through. This is to stop people ordering, getting the referal funds and then returning the product. Fair enough!

[mikeiow]

Prohibiting said:

Yep, I just let mine crack on every day. It also finds its dock after each drunken session too.

He's only got stuck once and that was because I left my laptop on the floor where he proceeded to try to climb on top.

Discovered out kitchen sometimes contains the "Herbert* Paradox"

We have a round table with 3 legs and 6 chairs. The chairs legs just let him through. When he is on low power, trying to get home, he was found endlessly going round the legs of a few chairs.....had to give him a little hand by moving a chair!
First time in a few uses.
Might have to deploy that old school mechanism - chairs on table at the end of the day

*Herbert is, of course, our dustybin robovac, Herbert Hoover

[skinnyman]

Ambleton said:

I got a eufy 30C in the black friday deals on amazon. Arrived today. Charged him up (Derek) and set him off now just to test him out. My wife hoovered with Henry today...

Derek has already had a complaint that his drop sensors were getting dirty, gave them a wipe, then a bit later he said his roller was jammed... RUBBISH... or so I thought. I flipped him belly side up to find his central roller was completely wrapped in a web of my wife's long blonde hair. It represented more of a paint roller than his bristled brush, I was absolutely shocked! I cleared it and sent him on his merry way.

After a while he was done and he returned back to his feeding station... I removed his cargo to find it was filled to the brim... NO WAY....

Chuffed to bits, I guess that after a few days most of the embedded hair will be removed so it wont cause a problem in future

I picked this one up too, £170, so far so good. Connected to Alexa, so just give voice commands to send him on his way. I've got his dock hidden under the stairs, so not with the 1m either side that the manual recommends, as a result he rarely finds his way home, but a minor inconvenience for where I've managed to hide the dock out of sight. He's great post kids dinner time. All the mess from the dining table and kitchen worktops just gets brushed onto the floor, then I send him out whilst I'm upstairs dealing with bath/bed time. By the time I come down all the crumbs are dealt with and I drop him back on his dock.

[Zoon]

skinnyman said:

By the time I come down all the crumbs are dealt with and I drop him back on his dock.

You can get alexa to return it to dock.

[Mr Scruff]

I've got the dock stored under a sofa which seems to work well, appreciate it might not be possible for everyone.

Have also taken to clearing everything up off the floor (dining chairs, dog bed/bowl etc) and then leaving the house while it does its stuff. We're only on day 3 but am happy with it.

Dog hates it though!

[Mazinbrum]

I've got my Eufy 15c Max under the Sofa too, its ideal as totally out of sight and returns to the base every time. Just need to get into the habit of making sure we don't leave charging cables lying on the floor.
I'm so impressed with mine I'm already thinking about upgrading to a vac with full mapping.

[boxst]

Just to update this, I've had the three of them for just over a month now (Eufy 30C) and they are working happily away. They do occasionally get stuck but it's rare and they pick up a surprising amount of dirt and dust even though the floors looks clean.

I do understand why people buy more expensive ones though with some sort of room mapping as the randomness and to be honest somewhat stupidity of the way it cleans is quite frustrating to watch. It does need all 100 minutes of the battery life to be able to clean a room. Still, kick it off at 5am an no-one has to see that bit.

[DuckAvenger]

I have Roborock S5 https://en.roborock.com/pages/roborock-s5

It's quite handy but as usual..it's like having a little child in the house. You have to look what it's up to. All the cables needs to be lifted/hidden and sometimes it gets stuck. But otherwise...it's nice thing to have.

[Dan_1981]

How much do you have to spend to get one with mapping?

[mikeiow]

dibbers006 said:

£180+

Er...which one is that for?

[Mr MXT]

I know this is a piece of string question, but how often should you change the filter on a 30c?

[Semmelweiss]

Mr MXT said:

I know this is a piece of string question, but how often should you change the filter on a 30c?

I've had mine running nightly since July. I'm on the original set of filters, central brush. The two circular ones are being replaced today, since they are now out of shape.

I clean the filter by taking it out weekly, tapping any blowing it clean of any fine dust.

[WindyCommon]

How well do these devices cope with rugs on hard floors? Our kitchen/day-room is 17m x 7m. It is tiled, but we have a rug in front of the sofa. Will they cope with the step up onto the rug - it’s not particularly thick, maybe 15mm or so. I can’t help thinking of the cartoon showing a Dalek confounded by a flight of stairs.

[mercedeslimos]

Reckon those <£100 refurbished Eufy ones on eBay are worth a punt?

Not that I'm a lazy bd, just can't be fked hoovering on my only day off. Have a cat and an eclectic house.

Can I manually throw it upstairs to do the carpet every few days?



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Eufy-Robovac-11-Black-H...

[essayer]

We got a Bagotte cleaner from Amazon and it vacuums reasonably well, but doesn’t appear to have any algorithm to clean by - it just goes off in random directions until the battery gets low, then returns to base?

Our Neato, by comparison, works out all the areas it can get to, then keeps cleaning and recharging until it’s cleaned every spot. Great vac but the lack of spares is hampering us, needs a second set of tyres but no way to get them without 3D printing them myself