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Spent a good few hours this afternoon trying to find the break in the boundary wire, as I had the blue flashing light on the Flymo 1200R. My usual tricks were not coming up trumps and I had pulled out most of the wire by the end and had cut out a few dodgy bits but nothing worked.
In the end it was simply the purple connection plug on the wire that connects to the base station! Simply corroded over time and lost connection. Simple to remove the purple plug, cut a 2cm off the wire and reattach the plug.
Just something to think about or test first if your system is a couple years old and you get the boundary error.
In the end it was simply the purple connection plug on the wire that connects to the base station! Simply corroded over time and lost connection. Simple to remove the purple plug, cut a 2cm off the wire and reattach the plug.
Just something to think about or test first if your system is a couple years old and you get the boundary error.
kryten22uk said:
Spent a good few hours this afternoon trying to find the break in the boundary wire, as I had the blue flashing light on the Flymo 1200R. My usual tricks were not coming up trumps and I had pulled out most of the wire by the end and had cut out a few dodgy bits but nothing worked.
In the end it was simply the purple connection plug on the wire that connects to the base station! Simply corroded over time and lost connection. Simple to remove the purple plug, cut a 2cm off the wire and reattach the plug.
Just something to think about or test first if your system is a couple years old and you get the boundary error.
Where can you get replacement purple plugs?In the end it was simply the purple connection plug on the wire that connects to the base station! Simply corroded over time and lost connection. Simple to remove the purple plug, cut a 2cm off the wire and reattach the plug.
Just something to think about or test first if your system is a couple years old and you get the boundary error.
kryten22uk said:
bennno said:
Where can you get replacement purple plugs?
You don't really need replacements you just open them and remove the old wire and reuse them. They aren't like the gel connectors which are one-use. But yeah amazon if you want.Bought our first house a few months ago, one of the selling points was the garden, which has approx 30m x 10m of lawn.
Up to now we’ve kept on the gardener the previous owner used, but he’s not the cheapest so I’m considering getting a robot mower.
The garden is mostly flat, with a couple of bumpy sections and goes slightly downhill.
Have read through some of the thread, but are there any go to brands/models that would suit my needs best? Not fussed about brand or how it looks
Up to now we’ve kept on the gardener the previous owner used, but he’s not the cheapest so I’m considering getting a robot mower.
The garden is mostly flat, with a couple of bumpy sections and goes slightly downhill.
Have read through some of the thread, but are there any go to brands/models that would suit my needs best? Not fussed about brand or how it looks
Bam89 said:
Bought our first house a few months ago, one of the selling points was the garden, which has approx 30m x 10m of lawn.
Up to now we’ve kept on the gardener the previous owner used, but he’s not the cheapest so I’m considering getting a robot mower.
The garden is mostly flat, with a couple of bumpy sections and goes slightly downhill.
Have read through some of the thread, but are there any go to brands/models that would suit my needs best? Not fussed about brand or how it looks
That's pretty much the same size as my lawn and I've got a McCulloch Rob S400 which does the job nicely. Mine's flat but I doubt it'd struggle with a but of a gradient.Up to now we’ve kept on the gardener the previous owner used, but he’s not the cheapest so I’m considering getting a robot mower.
The garden is mostly flat, with a couple of bumpy sections and goes slightly downhill.
Have read through some of the thread, but are there any go to brands/models that would suit my needs best? Not fussed about brand or how it looks
Had to Husqvarna 310 mk2 now running for 3 weeks, and the lawn has never looked better.
The first couple of days it looked fairly awful with random marks crossing over everywhere, but the installers did warn us about that.
I have found myself following it around on a night, sure the neighbours think I am mad.
Couple of questions though, when do you put them away for winter, I know it has not been cutting loads this week, as the grass has hardly grown, but next week is a warm one, so I imagine that it will shoot up again. Is it before the first frost, once the grass has definitely stopped?
Also, how much are they to run? I have not noticed a difference in our energy usage that I track. it only has a 1.3ah battery, and runs 8pm until 6am. So probably charges 5 times maybe. My (jealous) neighbour told me I'd be looking at £15 a week minimum!! But that seems very very high!
The first couple of days it looked fairly awful with random marks crossing over everywhere, but the installers did warn us about that.
I have found myself following it around on a night, sure the neighbours think I am mad.
Couple of questions though, when do you put them away for winter, I know it has not been cutting loads this week, as the grass has hardly grown, but next week is a warm one, so I imagine that it will shoot up again. Is it before the first frost, once the grass has definitely stopped?
Also, how much are they to run? I have not noticed a difference in our energy usage that I track. it only has a 1.3ah battery, and runs 8pm until 6am. So probably charges 5 times maybe. My (jealous) neighbour told me I'd be looking at £15 a week minimum!! But that seems very very high!
joestifff said:
Had to Husqvarna 310 mk2 now running for 3 weeks, and the lawn has never looked better.
The first couple of days it looked fairly awful with random marks crossing over everywhere, but the installers did warn us about that.
I have found myself following it around on a night, sure the neighbours think I am mad.
Couple of questions though, when do you put them away for winter, I know it has not been cutting loads this week, as the grass has hardly grown, but next week is a warm one, so I imagine that it will shoot up again. Is it before the first frost, once the grass has definitely stopped?
Also, how much are they to run? I have not noticed a difference in our energy usage that I track. it only has a 1.3ah battery, and runs 8pm until 6am. So probably charges 5 times maybe. My (jealous) neighbour told me I'd be looking at £15 a week minimum!! But that seems very very high!
I have a 450x and have never noticed any significant draw on power when it is charging. The tech spec for the 310 (I have one of those too) quotes 25w when cutting, so not much at all.The first couple of days it looked fairly awful with random marks crossing over everywhere, but the installers did warn us about that.
I have found myself following it around on a night, sure the neighbours think I am mad.
Couple of questions though, when do you put them away for winter, I know it has not been cutting loads this week, as the grass has hardly grown, but next week is a warm one, so I imagine that it will shoot up again. Is it before the first frost, once the grass has definitely stopped?
Also, how much are they to run? I have not noticed a difference in our energy usage that I track. it only has a 1.3ah battery, and runs 8pm until 6am. So probably charges 5 times maybe. My (jealous) neighbour told me I'd be looking at £15 a week minimum!! But that seems very very high!
Regarding winter, I expect everyone has 'their' way. Because I have a lot of trees about I will turn it off and store it when the leaves start to fall as it causes problems with the mower, and recommission it once the spring arrives. A gardener once told me running them over damp mornings is a good thing for clearing the dew to allow the grass to get better light, but I have no idea if that is the case or not.
My Husky mower had 2 spots it seems to get stuck in, and of course it seems to make a beeline for them both all the time!
one is down a hill with a tree at the bottom, so it cant reverse as its up hill and it cant go forwards as its up against a baby tree.
Other is just the edge of the lawn, they buried the wire too close and it drops off a little and has dug 2 big holes with its wheels and gets stuck there.
Is it just a case of putting some pressed down stones/gravel there so it can get traction?
one is down a hill with a tree at the bottom, so it cant reverse as its up hill and it cant go forwards as its up against a baby tree.
Other is just the edge of the lawn, they buried the wire too close and it drops off a little and has dug 2 big holes with its wheels and gets stuck there.
Is it just a case of putting some pressed down stones/gravel there so it can get traction?
sidekickdmr said:
My Husky mower had 2 spots it seems to get stuck in, and of course it seems to make a beeline for them both all the time!
one is down a hill with a tree at the bottom, so it cant reverse as its up hill and it cant go forwards as its up against a baby tree.
Other is just the edge of the lawn, they buried the wire too close and it drops off a little and has dug 2 big holes with its wheels and gets stuck there.
Is it just a case of putting some pressed down stones/gravel there so it can get traction?
You could try changing the drive over wire limit by increasing it. To stop it falling over the edge. one is down a hill with a tree at the bottom, so it cant reverse as its up hill and it cant go forwards as its up against a baby tree.
Other is just the edge of the lawn, they buried the wire too close and it drops off a little and has dug 2 big holes with its wheels and gets stuck there.
Is it just a case of putting some pressed down stones/gravel there so it can get traction?
Not sure about near the tree. Gravel? An obstacle between the hill and tree to stop it getting close?
Considering putting mine away in the next couple of weeks, grass doesn't really seem to be growing up North, just the mower going out on a night for a jolly, going back to charge and repeat!
Although it does knock a lot of the dew off the grass, which I am told is a positive!
I still can't work out how much they cost to run, I was expecting to see maybe a small uplift in usage. But I honestly haven't. My neighbour telling me they cost £25 a week in electricity, got me thinking.
The best I have got it worked out, and please correct me if I am wrong, as it seems insanely cheap to me:
Husqvarna 310mk2 per the website it has a 2.1Ah 18v battery, which I make 0.04kWh.
Say it charges for about 5 hours a night then 5 x 0.04 = 0.2kW and at todays price of about 33p = 7p
Boundary wire uses power, I read somewhere, and now cannot find, that it is about 2 watts so that's 0.002 x 24 hours x 33p = call it 2p
So 9p a day to run.
This seems overly cheap to me, wonder if my calcs are out by a factor of ten somewhere, I may have to buy one of those usage meters just to end my curiosity.
Although it does knock a lot of the dew off the grass, which I am told is a positive!
I still can't work out how much they cost to run, I was expecting to see maybe a small uplift in usage. But I honestly haven't. My neighbour telling me they cost £25 a week in electricity, got me thinking.
The best I have got it worked out, and please correct me if I am wrong, as it seems insanely cheap to me:
Husqvarna 310mk2 per the website it has a 2.1Ah 18v battery, which I make 0.04kWh.
Say it charges for about 5 hours a night then 5 x 0.04 = 0.2kW and at todays price of about 33p = 7p
Boundary wire uses power, I read somewhere, and now cannot find, that it is about 2 watts so that's 0.002 x 24 hours x 33p = call it 2p
So 9p a day to run.
This seems overly cheap to me, wonder if my calcs are out by a factor of ten somewhere, I may have to buy one of those usage meters just to end my curiosity.
joestifff said:
Considering putting mine away in the next couple of weeks, grass doesn't really seem to be growing up North, just the mower going out on a night for a jolly, going back to charge and repeat!
Although it does knock a lot of the dew off the grass, which I am told is a positive!
I still can't work out how much they cost to run, I was expecting to see maybe a small uplift in usage. But I honestly haven't. My neighbour telling me they cost £25 a week in electricity, got me thinking.
The best I have got it worked out, and please correct me if I am wrong, as it seems insanely cheap to me:
Husqvarna 310mk2 per the website it has a 2.1Ah 18v battery, which I make 0.04kWh.
Say it charges for about 5 hours a night then 5 x 0.04 = 0.2kW and at todays price of about 33p = 7p
Boundary wire uses power, I read somewhere, and now cannot find, that it is about 2 watts so that's 0.002 x 24 hours x 33p = call it 2p
So 9p a day to run.
This seems overly cheap to me, wonder if my calcs are out by a factor of ten somewhere, I may have to buy one of those usage meters just to end my curiosity.
How do you know it charges for 5 hours a night? Is it cutting for 19 hours? Although it does knock a lot of the dew off the grass, which I am told is a positive!
I still can't work out how much they cost to run, I was expecting to see maybe a small uplift in usage. But I honestly haven't. My neighbour telling me they cost £25 a week in electricity, got me thinking.
The best I have got it worked out, and please correct me if I am wrong, as it seems insanely cheap to me:
Husqvarna 310mk2 per the website it has a 2.1Ah 18v battery, which I make 0.04kWh.
Say it charges for about 5 hours a night then 5 x 0.04 = 0.2kW and at todays price of about 33p = 7p
Boundary wire uses power, I read somewhere, and now cannot find, that it is about 2 watts so that's 0.002 x 24 hours x 33p = call it 2p
So 9p a day to run.
This seems overly cheap to me, wonder if my calcs are out by a factor of ten somewhere, I may have to buy one of those usage meters just to end my curiosity.
Work out roughly how many hours of cutting it does a day and multiply that by 25w. My schedule is 1100-2200 so being overly generous 11 hours (will be less than that as it will recharge during the schedule as well) at 25w = 275w a day, 8kwh a month, at 33p per kwh is less than £2 a month. Is your neighbour a shade of green since you got a robot mower?
M1AGM said:
joestifff said:
Considering putting mine away in the next couple of weeks, grass doesn't really seem to be growing up North, just the mower going out on a night for a jolly, going back to charge and repeat!
Although it does knock a lot of the dew off the grass, which I am told is a positive!
I still can't work out how much they cost to run, I was expecting to see maybe a small uplift in usage. But I honestly haven't. My neighbour telling me they cost £25 a week in electricity, got me thinking.
The best I have got it worked out, and please correct me if I am wrong, as it seems insanely cheap to me:
Husqvarna 310mk2 per the website it has a 2.1Ah 18v battery, which I make 0.04kWh.
Say it charges for about 5 hours a night then 5 x 0.04 = 0.2kW and at todays price of about 33p = 7p
Boundary wire uses power, I read somewhere, and now cannot find, that it is about 2 watts so that's 0.002 x 24 hours x 33p = call it 2p
So 9p a day to run.
This seems overly cheap to me, wonder if my calcs are out by a factor of ten somewhere, I may have to buy one of those usage meters just to end my curiosity.
How do you know it charges for 5 hours a night? Is it cutting for 19 hours? Although it does knock a lot of the dew off the grass, which I am told is a positive!
I still can't work out how much they cost to run, I was expecting to see maybe a small uplift in usage. But I honestly haven't. My neighbour telling me they cost £25 a week in electricity, got me thinking.
The best I have got it worked out, and please correct me if I am wrong, as it seems insanely cheap to me:
Husqvarna 310mk2 per the website it has a 2.1Ah 18v battery, which I make 0.04kWh.
Say it charges for about 5 hours a night then 5 x 0.04 = 0.2kW and at todays price of about 33p = 7p
Boundary wire uses power, I read somewhere, and now cannot find, that it is about 2 watts so that's 0.002 x 24 hours x 33p = call it 2p
So 9p a day to run.
This seems overly cheap to me, wonder if my calcs are out by a factor of ten somewhere, I may have to buy one of those usage meters just to end my curiosity.
Work out roughly how many hours of cutting it does a day and multiply that by 25w. My schedule is 1100-2200 so being overly generous 11 hours (will be less than that as it will recharge during the schedule as well) at 25w = 275w a day, 8kwh a month, at 33p per kwh is less than £2 a month. Is your neighbour a shade of green since you got a robot mower?
We are coming to a very similar figure. So we both must be about right. Over egging it. And including the boundary wire. I make it £2.40 a month.
Yes he is a shade of green. My grass has never looked better. It’s lovely only having to strim round edges and trees, and cut the front lawn. Should have got one sooner!!!
Last year mine was out until deep in December and back out in early March. I also bring it in when the frosts start arriving regularly.
Currently mine isn't cutting as I have a blue light with no obvious breaks. Last time I had this I made a test wire and had to go the full way around the garden until I found the break hidden in the ground. Looks like i'll be spending an hour or so this weekend doing that again.
Currently mine isn't cutting as I have a blue light with no obvious breaks. Last time I had this I made a test wire and had to go the full way around the garden until I found the break hidden in the ground. Looks like i'll be spending an hour or so this weekend doing that again.
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Currently mine isn't cutting as I have a blue light with no obvious breaks. Last time I had this I made a test wire and had to go the full way around the garden until I found the break hidden in the ground. Looks like i'll be spending an hour or so this weekend doing that again.
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See my post on the last page 19th July. You’ll find the break very quickly
Currently mine isn't cutting as I have a blue light with no obvious breaks. Last time I had this I made a test wire and had to go the full way around the garden until I found the break hidden in the ground. Looks like i'll be spending an hour or so this weekend doing that again.
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See my post on the last page 19th July. You’ll find the break very quickly
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