2025 - Cordless Robot Recommendations

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Our Dolphin Quantum is losing steam. I'm tired of finding it tied in knots after it's been stuck spinning on the drain, I'm tired of the rubber polaris drain covers that break down over the year, and I'm tired of the cord that has the degrading rubber. I'd *like* to go cordless, but that's why I'm here to ask for advice. I'd like
  1. Something that can handle a 20x40 square pool (in a logical methodical manner)
  2. Something that I can leave in the pool - we usually put the cleaner in the pool after swimming and close the cover
  3. Something that intelligently maps the pool - it drives me nuts when our current unit gets stuck on the main drain and starts going in circles. It also drives me crazy when it's heading directly towards something, and all of a sudden decides it should turn. My OCD kicks in...
  4. Our pool is covered 99.99% of the time, so there's not a large load of leaves. The pool cleaner is simply used to keep the bottom clean, pick up worms or other things that find their way into the pool - most of this seems to settle at the seams where the wall meets the floor.
  5. It would be great if I could set it to run every X days - not sure how well the battery units live in the pool, esp knowing that the battery only lasts so long, so this one may be a dream, but it's on my wish list.

Does anything exist that would work, and if so, any recommendations? Am I off my rocker for wanting to be done with the cord? The swivels on those cords don't.....swivel....very well.

Thanks!
 
Katodude said:
Here read this

Aiper Scuba S1 Review

Well Amazon just delivered it. It came in a box, in box, in a box. Got the Russian dolls unpacked and here it is.
www.troublefreepool.com www.troublefreepool.com
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Wow, that's quite a thread. Went down that rabbit hole for quite a while.

Basically, the S1/N1 is at a price point where it's nearly disposable if it makes it 3 years. It sometimes struggles with ramps (which we have as our pool goes from 3' to 8'). Software updates have been making things like this better. Some people complain that it doesn't have a fine enough filter.

Looks like the new X1 and X1 Pro Maxx have a replaceable "MicroMesh" filter now. Not sure if that fills that box, but at double the price of the S1. X1 has more suction (6600 GPH) than the S1 (4200 GPH), and the S1 Pro MAX has more suction (8500 GPH) than the X1, and double the suction of the S1. The S1 Pro has 6000 GPH suction, a Micro filter, but used to have a garbage turn dial that sometimes stuck, that now looks like it was replaced with buttons looking at the images on their website.

Enough to make a person's head spin. Our pool is covered as I mentioned. We don't get a lot of debris that gets into the pool (not much for leaves, etc). What does get in is dust that makes it in via the coners of the cover on windy days...that makes me think that the MicroMesh filter may be needed. I could care less about the walls, mostly interested in the bottom, and the vac has to be able to make it up the incline.
 
I would recommend the lowest cost robot based on what you said. Basically the S1/N1. Buy it from Amazon or Costco and if it does not handle the slope return it.
 
I think this one might work for you Black Pearl 8Streme Unfortunately I have not found anyone who has owned it. The battery floats with the unit and can be detached to charge elsewhere. I personally stuck with Aiper cause I got a great price but heavily considered this one.
 
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In reading the S1 thread, it sounded like at first, everyone thought the S1/N1 were the same thing, and then as time went on, some were questioning if they were the same. When you look at them on the aiper website, it looks like they're at least physically slightly different (look at the angles on the slope end). How similar are these two? Looks like the N1 can be had at Home Depot for $499 right now. The N1 Pro can be had at Best Buy for $799 (says the sale ends in 8 hours), $899 elsewhere.

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