Tiger Shark only cleaning half the pool

[pb4uswim]

I think the way my pool is shaped causes the Tiger Shark to hang in my deep end. I never see it in my shallow end and even when I force it over there, it just bounces off the walls a few times and it’s back down in the deep end. I switch the handle every time I use it, but that doesn’t seem to do anything. I guess I’ll have to live with it awhile, but if anyone can think of an adjustment i can make, I’d appreciate it. Otherwise, I’ll probably start looking into a new one. Are there cleaners that actually map the pool so they make sure they get it all?

Attached is a picture of my pool. I think it’s just the shape of the ledge stairs that it doesn’t handle well. They seem to funnel the robot down to the deeper end. With the deep end being more of a smooth rectangle, it just seems to stay there.

 

[cowboycasey]

Well that is not really working then is it... It says it has a 4 hour cleaning cycle, will it stay in the deep end the whole 4 hours? Does it do the whole pool tile line? I really do not see how it can only do the deep end and all the tile.. What has Hayward said?

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[pb4uswim]

No, it doesn’t really do the tile line well either. Again, I believe the shape of the pool is the problem. I think it’s for structure, but there’s a 4 inch ledge that runs around the entire pool. It’s about 2-3 foot off the bottom. When it hits that, it usually stops climbing and goes back down. I knew it could climb the walls, but it does it so infrequently that I thought it was an anomaly. I basically looked at it as a bottom cleaning tool. Bummer that this hits me now because i doubt it’s under warranty. Plus, I’m beginning to conclude that it’s just not a good cleaner for my pool given the structure of my pool.

 

[cowboycasey]

Ahh, I see.. so it thinks it is at the tileline and stops and goes back down to do another run... it thinks the bottom half of the pool is the whole pool...

About the only ones I think might, and that is a big might is the Maytronics pro line.. They say the robot actually maps the whole pool, so you could start it in the shallow end and get it to the actual tile line and if it is actually mapping it then it would know where the tile line is in the whole pool... You could manually drive it all the way up to the tile line from the deep end so it knew it was there... I wonder if there is a try before you buy for the commercial line to see if it actually works

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[gingrbredman]

I think we have similar pools, and my robot worked fine climbing the walls and hitting the shallow end. It never really went up the stairs leading to the tanning ledge, but hung out no problem in the shallow end. I also have that ledge that goes around the pool and the robot never had an issue climbing over it to get to the top. Seems something is more up with the robot than an issue with the pool build itself.

Not sure if someone else makes the Tigershark for Hayward or it is unique to their brand but would look into seeing if any other models have this issue. For example, my robot has a Pentair badge on it, Pentair just relabeled a different robot. Not sure off hand which one is the same robot from a different brand, but maybe worth looking into as well.