Robot vacuum cleaner for the pool, types, how to choose, specialist advice
Unfortunately, the pool is not only a place for family vacations, it is also a need for constant care and monitoring of water conditions. To ensure that the water is clean enough and does not bloom during the swimming season, it will be necessary to organize cleaning of the walls and bottom of the pool, and at least twice a week.
Content:
- What are the benefits of robotic vacuum cleaners
- How Underwater Vacuum Cleaner Models Are Classified
- How to clean the pool - consider the most popular vacuum cleaner models among consumers
- Some useful tips for those who are going to make a purchase of a robot cleaner
What are the benefits of robotic vacuum cleaners
Allocating enough time to clean the bowl is sometimes quite difficult, because you will have to clear a lot of sediment from a considerable area, carefully, centimeter by centimeter. Given these problems, engineers created a special unit, a robot vacuum cleaner for cleaning the pool. Its use allows to reduce the time spent on cleaning the pool up to several minutes. The task will be to immerse the device in water, connect the cable to the network, press the power button. At the end of the work, you will need to rinse the filter bag. The device will do all the work of cleaning the sludge on its own, and the size of the garbage to be removed will be measured not even by millimeters, but by microns.
There are many attractive moments in the operation of vacuum cleaners for the pool. Using a manual vacuum cleaner will significantly increase the productivity of the work performed. Even without experience, the vacuum cleaner will allow cleaning at a speed faster than the work of an experienced washer with sponges and a scraper. The robot will perform cleaning at even greater speed. Moreover, the quality of cleaning will significantly exceed that which a professional person can provide.
Using a powerful robot cleaner allows you to save resources on equipment used in the pool. Knowing how to clean the pool, you can get, at a minimum, extending the life of filtering equipment, because the consumables and cartridges for them are quite expensive, and a vacuum cleaner can quite efficiently remove the mucus deposited on the surfaces and retain it in a special container.
The refusal to drain the water before cleaning will save the resource of pressure equipment designed to fill the bowl of an artificial reservoir with water.
The operation of the vacuum cleaner will not be problematic even for an unprepared person, if a manual vacuum cleaner for the pool requires the control of a bell, which is carried out in the same way as the control of an ordinary land-based household vacuum cleaner, then the robot vacuum cleaner can work independently, without the participation of people. The frequency of cleaning is set in the program that controls the operation of the vacuum cleaner. Naturally, such a formulation of the question will allow maintaining the water in the pool in perfect condition.
How Underwater Vacuum Cleaner Models Are Classified
All produced models of vacuum cleaners are divided into several groups, first of all - according to the degree of automation of units. Namely, the following varieties of vacuum cleaners should be distinguished:
- Hand-held, having a simplified design, which does not include its own filter unit. To work, you will need to connect to the filter system of the pool. Since the pressure in the cleaned area is created by its own pressure unit, which is the pump, the throughput of the vacuum cleaner can be up to 16 tons of water per hour. Among the advantages of this kind of aggregates, the cheapness of the design should be noted.
- Semiautomatic models are complicated constructions equipped with an integrated waste bin, i.e. they allow you to save resources of pool filtration systems. The most advanced models belonging to this group work both in automatic and in manual mode, and it will take a couple of hours to perform automatic pool cleaning. The optimal use of such units involves their operation in pools with an area of \u200b\u200bup to 870 sq.m. Among the advantages of such models, the possibility of high-quality cleaning of the walls and bottom of the pool with a directed water jet can be noted.
- Automatically working devices, this group includes vacuum cleaners that clean not only the bottom and walls of the pool underwater, but also that part of them that is located above the waterline. Automatic machines operate on batteries, the dirt removed by them is either dumped into the pool filtration system or enters its own drive. Vacuum cleaners and robots work very quietly, during the night they can clean the pool with an area of \u200b\u200babout 1500 sq.m. The main advantages of automatic machines are that a person does not need to be controlled for their work; the frequency of cleaning can be programmed.
How to clean the pool - consider the most popular vacuum cleaner models among consumers
Before choosing a vacuum cleaner for the pool, it is advisable to familiarize yourself with the most popular of domestic and world manufacturers of equipment designed for pool care.
pool Robots Zodiac
The manufacturer producing products with the Zodiac trademark has established itself in the world market and produces equipment for the care of swimming pools of the highest quality, using modern technologies in the production process. In particular, robotic vacuum cleaners produced by the company perfectly clean the pool surface and bring the water in it to perfect condition.
Innovative equipment can work independently, without human intervention, but if necessary, the operation of the vacuum cleaner can be adjusted using a remote control. To control the robot vacuum cleaner will not require special training. The design of the unit is quite compact, its design is quite attractive.
Among the latest developments of the Zodiac company, the Vortex 4WD model should be noted, its design features, in particular, the location of the pumps, allows the unit to create a vortex flow that draws all microparticles of dirt accumulated in the pool into the membrane filter. In the filter box, the mud is suspended, does not adhere to the walls of the filter, therefore, it does not affect the power of trash retraction. The technical characteristics of Zodiac vacuum cleaners allow you to perform high-quality water purification of any degree of contamination.
Aggregates from this brand can undoubtedly be attributed to products that have real European quality, successfully combined with the most advanced technologies.
Watch a video about testing a Zodiac robot vacuum cleaner:
pool vacuum cleaner Intex
Modern machines from Intex provide high-quality cleaning of pools of various sizes, they work almost without operator intervention, human labor costs are minimized. All units included in the design of Intex vacuum cleaners are united by a common housing; when performing work, they are immersed in water.
In order for the robot to navigate in space and determine the position of the walls and the bottom, it is equipped with a group of sensors. All dirt removed is cleaned in the vacuum cleaner’s own filtration system, which is also located inside the housing.
The area of \u200b\u200boperation of the automatic device is limited only by the length of the network cable.
The filters with which Intex automatic vacuum cleaners are equipped are reusable, they require manual cleaning when filling, and as they fill their filtering properties they do not decrease.
The device is connected to the mains via a step-down transformer, which is included with the vacuum cleaner. Since the unit is immersed in water in the connected state, the developers had to pay a lot of attention to safety issues.
The vacuum cleaner serves the artificial reservoirs of standard forms using the set of standard programs that are available in its memory. If the bottom in the pool has a too complicated relief, the shape of the reservoir itself differs in non-standard geometry or some sections of the bottom or walls are too polluted, it makes sense to use the option of manual control. Commands will be given from the wireless remote control.
When choosing models from Intex, you should pay attention that some of them are designed to clean exclusively above-ground pools.
More information about the Intex vacuum cleaner - in the video:
Dolphin pool vacuum cleaners
Among the best representatives of the pool of robotic vacuum cleaners for the pool should be called products with the Dolphin trademark, which is produced at Israeli enterprises. Units from this manufacturer are suitable for working in pools with any wall and bottom coating, including those lined with ceramic tiles, mosaics, PVC film, in pools made of composite materials, stainless steel.
Brush water treatment system, highly efficient. Devices are able to independently filter water, all debris and dirt is trapped in a reusable bag filter. Access to the filtration system of the device is from above, which is convenient enough for the user.
A positive point is the equipment with a self-learning program, which makes it possible to independently determine the dimensions of the pool, calculate the trajectory of the unit. The Dolphin robot vacuum cleaner can easily cope with dirt in the corners of the bowl, the freedom of its movement will be ensured by a sufficiently long power cable, the twisting of which will prevent the special hinge available in the design.
Choosing a vacuum cleaner you will need to clarify what size your pool has, for example, with small dimensions it will be possible to get by with the budget model of the Dolphin Galaxy robot, if you need to clean pools of a solid size (up to 25 m long), it is better to pay attention to Dolphin Dynamic PRO models. They successfully clean the bottom, walls and waterline. The unit purifies up to 17 cubic meters of water per hour.
How Dolphin Galaxy works we watch a video:
Since the weight of this type of robots reaches 12 kg, a special trolley is included in the kit for their convenient transportation.
Some useful tips for those who intend to buy a robot cleaner
It should be noted that not every model available on the market can ensure the desired purity of water in the pool.
Therefore, in order not to waste money and not become the owner of a beautiful expensive toy in bright packaging, it is recommended that you first familiarize yourself with some important characteristics of water purification units:
- In terms of power, the unit should correspond to the volume of the reservoir, from 5 to 8 hours should be enough to clean the bowl with a robot vacuum cleaner.
- It should be clarified whether the selected model will be able to efficiently remove dirt from the walls and bottom of surfaces.
- The cord must be longer than the largest bowl size (length, width or diameter).
- If the bowl has a difficult terrain, make sure that the device is equipped with additional cleaning nozzles.
- It should be borne in mind that the operation of manual units can only be carried out if the pool is already equipped with a skimmer.
- For large pools, the presence of a remote control in the kit will not be out of place.
- It is very important that the device can thoroughly clean the steps leading into the bowl, the small width of the steps or their curved outlines can become an obstacle to normal operation.
