Rumba - robot vacuum cleaner for dry cleaning

There is no 380T model, only a 390T model. And in irobot there is this model and there they also give 3 rags for wet cleaning as a gift. These are also officials?

[Ana-stasy]

Ana-stasy, it is worth taking a closer look at Omega from Eugene Robots, and long hair does not care and the speed of flow through the brush is the highest, plus navigation, 90m. too much for a rumba without movement coordinators.

Added on Monday 21 Nov 2016 7:26 PM

ludmila_27.79, irobot is the wholesale department of iRobot, they also sell at retail, I have their point of sale at my side at the 1st Kashirsky yard.
It is convenient to buy on Ryabinovaya if you pass by, but it is difficult and inconvenient to go there specifically, the service works on workdays and the hours are also working.

[Sergei]

Sergei, I still did not understand. Only the base is buzzing with me, both with the robot on charge and without it. Should I carry the base to the service?

I already realized that it is better to buy a robot in Russia. I corresponded with sellers from eBay and they wrote to me that the guarantee is only 2 weeks, that is, it does not work. And the price is cheap, because Braava came from the factory with a defect, which was not indicated. That's why on Amazon Braava costs 400 euros, and on eBay offers for 280 euros turned out to be bad.

[Sergei]

Sergei Thank you!
Have you seen Omega at work? Everywhere they write that he is very noisy compared to Rumba and Arte
And what about the service? It's just that Rumba has been on the market for a long time and they have probably worked everything out already, and IClebo is less known. Maybe I'm not right

[Medtech]

Medtech, there is Moneual - a hybrid robot: a robot vacuum cleaner and a floor polisher in one. It can simultaneously scrub and wash the floor using a microfiber cloth attached to the bottom, or perform these functions separately. Sergey, have you heard anything about this robot, is it good? Or is it still better to buy a robot vacuum cleaner and a robot floor polisher separately?

[ILIFE]

And that robotic vacuum cleaners expose themselves to use ILIFE ? How are they compared to Rumbas? Maybe someone has such a machine? Share your impressions

[Ana-stasy]

Ana-stasy, Anastasia, I have Omega. I am one of the first buyers. This is my first robot vacuum cleaner, I cannot compare with others. But I just love Omega. If you are interested in something, I will answer, it is better in the topic about other robotic vacuum cleaners.

I finally bought my Braava! The truth is not in Russia, but on eBay. They sent it to me from Germany very quickly, it is new and has a 2 year warranty. I wrote my review about Braave here: Robot floor polisher IROBOT BRAAVA (formerly MINT)

Please advise which robot is better than Rumba 880 or 980, or Aiklebo Omega or Arte, or Philips 8820, or is he not a competitor to Rumba and Aiklebo at all? I have Rumba 531 and it doesn’t suit me that it takes a very long time to clean it. In 100 minutes cleans the hall (30 sq. m) and the corridor 12 sq. m and there is not enough charge even for the kitchen (6 sq. m). I wanted the vacuum cleaner to clean 100 square meters on a single charge (i.e. in 2 hours). m or hall, corridor and kitchen in 1 hour. Rumba 880 with installed beacons will cope with this task? And the 980 does not support beacons and is no longer cleaned chaotically, faster and immediately throughout the apartment, there is no need to carry it from room to room?

[ludmila_27.79]

ludmila_27.79A robot with navigation can only help you, even an 8xx series with beacons at 100m and unit areas over 25m is not an option. Arte, Omega, Rumba 980, Botvac, Miele RX-1, here's Xiaomi too.

[Medtech]

Medtech, Thank you! If there are no carpets, will Arte suit or is Omega better? I am confused, only that in Spain Aiklebo is not sold at all, which means there is most likely no service, only batteries are available from the components. It will be inconvenient to maintain, but the price is reasonable. Rumba 980 is pleasant, only the price is not pleasant. I haven't heard of Xiaomi at all - is this also Korean? Miele has not been involved in the development of robots before and I am not sure if he is better than Aiklebo or Ayrobot, or am I mistaken? Is Botvac Neato?

[ludmila_27.79]

ludmila_27.79,
For Mile, Eugene Robotics produces robots, a new overlay is molded on iKlebo Art, a couple of additional sensors are installed and a more famous name is drawn in Europe, but the robot is the same, only the company selling the name is well-known.
Neato is Botvac, XV. Xiaomi is a Chinese company of the same name, a fairly well-known company.

I liked the Neato Botvac D85. Is it loud, louder than Rumba? What are its main disadvantages?

[Medtech]

Medtech, I am looking for a battery to replace my Airbot 631, is there any experience with such a battery? The native began to suffice for 20 minutes, if not less

Replacement 6000mAh Li-ion Battery for iRobot Roomba 500 600 770 780 790 870 880 with Free Side Brushes
🔗
(from AliExpress Android)

[Anastasenok]

Anastasenok,
How lucky, sometimes there are poor quality and workmanship. Only at your choice and risk.

My new battery came in 4 days. Very quickly, I didn't even expect it. Now the 4400 mAh rumba has been working for the third hour. The house will be clean again.

Thank you!!! Medtech

ordered from the second link

Why didn't you order it on Ali? I looked, is it cheaper there?

[milenamilena]

milenamilenaAs a result, sometimes it turns out more expensive, metal hydride batteries are now being made less and less, the quality is getting lower, there are more rejections, the Chinese are saving, rejection is sold to inexpensive battery assemblers, you buy them inexpensively.
The owners of tops, too, began to suffer for 2-3 months with a Chinese battery and that's it ... before they worked for at least 10 months, so there is a guarantee in Russia - you can replace it.
Inexpensive

[Medtech]

MedtechWhat is the guarantee that the batteries from the second link are better than those from Ali?

[milenamilena]

milenamilena, you should contact the seller and find out yourself, at the same time contact the seller on Ali and find out from him about the warranty, return and return cost.
The guarantees that it is better - until you open them, you do not recognize, but in this situation, fly off the guarantee, with Ali they will die quietly, or maybe not quietly.
The local seller is responsible for at least local laws. At the time of consultations on the purchase from Ali, they were of very dubious quality, they were of very good quality from the local, as I don’t know now, I prefer to buy a proven metal hydride.

[milenamilena]

milenamilena, if it was in my case, then I didn't want to wait and endure the dust under my feet at this time. The battery came in just 3 days, again you could press a button before leaving for work and be happy. The batteries from China go for a very long time, since they do not send them by plane and it is good if it comes in 2 months.
Well Medtech I trust and experience on myself what he did not want to experience more than once. I also read a third-party professional forum before ordering.

This is why Braava costs 400 euros on Amazon, but offers for 280 euros on eBay turned out to be bad.

Braavas are all glucan, no matter where you buy them. Mine from Amazon.

[Tiziana]

Tiziana, but how is their glucanism manifested? Mine is soon a year, until I noticed something like this.

[Medtech]

My new battery came in 4 days. Very quickly, I didn't even expect it. Now the 4400 mAh rumba has been working for the third hour. The house will be clean again.

Thank you!!! Medtech

I also planned for a long time, but I did not dare to order with Ali.
I decided to trust Medtech and in 4 days the battery reached! Now I put it in Rumba, the only thing I didn't want to go to the dock myself.
I put it on myself, let it charge. I will test it for a couple of days and if everything is ok, I will order the same battery for my parents.

Sergey, I can’t find the instruction and don’t remember if I really need to press something to make the robot and dock friends?

[marina-asti]

marina-asti, there is a reset algorithm, I was looking for a search engine based on the robot model

[marina-asti]

marina-asti, there is a reset algorithm, I was looking for a search engine based on the robot model

And so I hoped that everything would work by itself)))
Thank you! I'll go look!

Added Sunday Mar 12, 2017 6:14 PM

I did not drop anything, after the first charge I started it from the dock, worked for 1 hour 45 minutes and returned to base myself. Not a little time?

[marina-asti]

marina-asti, this is the usual average cleaning time for Rumba.
To find out the maximum cleaning time, you need to start the robot from the base and turn off or remove the base in an inaccessible place for the robot, the robot will work until the battery runs out, this will be the maximum operating time. After that, it is necessary to quickly put the robot on the base for charging, he himself will no longer go.

marina-asti, this is the usual average cleaning time for Rumba.

Thank you Sergey, I just read above that people have 3 hours of driving on the same battery))
I never really timed the time, and how much he worked when the new one was - I also don't know, I turned it on and went to work, and then "the tiger was not given meat"))))

Marin, so he would have cleaned you for 3 hours too, if the base were removed ... so "everything is fine with the meat," I think.

[marina-asti]

marina-astiSo people do not specify how they launch it, especially if the robot supports beacons and beacons are placed in the rooms, the robot can work as long as possible by cleaning, and not blinking in search of a base.

Sergey, good afternoon!
IROBOT ROOMBA 631 - six months after purchase it works for 30-40 minutes, it is not returned to the base. We tested it at the service center, we need a battery replacement. Is this suitable for this model? -
Battery type: NI-MH
Battery Volt: 14.4V
Battery capacity: 4500mAh
Battery color: blue
Battery length: 138 * 45 * 43mm
Battery weight: 750g
Thank you!

[amorito]

amorito, I don’t know, the dimension is similar for all 12-cell batteries, if only the connection contacts are the same, it is excellent in terms of characteristics, and you can only guess from the internal content.
My colleague in St. Petersburg collects lithium-ion batteries for iRobot, at least I know what he puts there, there are his ads on Avito. Rumba batteries are all the same, all standard, all fit in size. I can only speak about batteries for Neato XV - people buy on aliexpress, save money, batteries die in six months, the original ones run for a year and a half, but they cost under 5, I collect lithium-ion, but the robot needs to be switched to lithium-ion mode, this is not always remotely it turns out quickly.

Tested at the service center, battery needs replacement

And the guarantee for what?

[sazalexter]

Sergey, I'm ordering for Ali, because I don't want to spend extra money. The native battery did not last long, if for a year and a half .. they write about it:
compatible with the following models:
iRobot Roomba 500 Series 510 530 535 540 550 560 570 580
iRobot Roomba 600 620 630 650 660 Professional Series
iRobot Roomba 700 760 770 780 790
iRobot Roomba R3

sazalexter, and the battery is only guaranteed for six months.

According to my colleague from St. Petersburg who specializes in repairing bearings, buying on Ali you play a big lottery, according to the Botvakov owners, the latest inexpensive batteries work for 2-3-4 months, so who spends too much is found out only in the future and is expressed in the cost of a one-time cleaning ... The longer the robot works, the lower the cost of ownership and the lower the cost of a one-time cleaning.
It was nice to do preventive maintenance on a robot that worked for 1500 hours and removed an area of ​​about 90,000 square meters, but began to junk.
But he had to change the batteries every one and a half years - this is a consumable.

Sergey, thank you very much for your help!
I have already played the lottery with Irobot, I was not lucky, now I will go to Ali to play ...

[ksyusha1997]

ksyusha1997, of course, but it's lazy to experiment)

Medtech, lighthouses and walls, I never even got out of the box, he walks in my free access. I went up to look at the robot, it took about 1h 35-1h 40 from the start of work, he was already blinking with the dock button, I waited for him to come from one room to another and come to the station himself.
Let's say the time of 1h45 suits me, now let's see how long the battery itself will last.

My husband raised the documents since September 11, he was with us, the battery began to fail somewhere in the fall, that is, he honestly worked for 5 years at the factory.

My friends, I need help. The middle gear is lost (in the photo there is an empty pin). Do not ask how, herself in a trance. : cray: The service offers to change the entire central block (this is the one with the brushes). Issue price 1600 rubles. Maybe someone has friends in the service who can screw this piece. Or the collective intelligence will tell me where to get it.

[Medtech]

Medtech, Sergey, tell me what is wrong with bearing 531, drives around for 30 seconds, then talks about an error and turns off?) Are you repairing such ancient ones?)

[Medtech]

Medtech, thank you very much!
Ordered on 🔗, delivered very quickly. Yesterday, the baby-bormoglothik worked a little over three hours. I climbed into the base twice with a sense of accomplishment, like I took everything away. But in order to find out how long the battery lasts, I sent it back on a hike for dust.

[Medtech]

Medtech,
Good evening, Sergei.
Please help me make the right choice.

my answers to your 10 questions:
1. The area of ​​the apartment? 67 sq. m
2. Number of rooms? 2 + large kitchen
3. Size of the largest room or combined space? 22sq. m
4. The composition of the coatings? 50 to 50 tiles and parquet boards. Tile - hallway, kitchen, room board.
5. The presence of animals and which ones? no
6. The presence of long-haired with a hair length of more than 25cm? no
7. Who will service the robot (clean, empty the bin, watch)? I
8. How do you imagine the work of a robot? set a time for him and he goes hunting or run at will.
9. Are you ready to adjust the apartment for robotic cleaning? of course
10. Budget? I thought up to 35-40, but if there is something super necessary and useful, I will consider the options.

Thank you in advance.

[GriNata]

GriNata, It is worth clarifying which error, it does not matter which one to repair, inside is ordinary electronics and mechanics.



Prank, Rumba 6xx series with schedule and higher, Arte, Omega, Xiaomi. Smooth floors, no long hair very many robots fit.



OmelaShe herself would not have been lost, they were dismantled to look, and there is almost no garbage in the new modules, and the Robot has perfected its universal brush module almost to perfection.

Prank, Rumba 6xx series with a schedule or higher, Arte, Omega, Xiaomi. Smooth floors, no long hair very many robots fit.

Sergey, how do they differ. Maybe some are more reliable or more powerful. there will be no problems with repairs or spare parts? By the way, the floors are not super smooth, the tiles are so slightly uneven and with large gaps between 1 cm each, such as semi-antique, will it somehow affect the choice?

Tell me, is the X-lite Li-ion battery suitable for Rumba 531? In the online store they write what is suitable. You just need to install it and that's it, or do you need to reflash the robot?

[Medtech]

Medtech, the "helicopter" brush has stopped spinning, rumba of the 6xx series. She twisted it off, dust, dirt, hair removed in a timely manner. Now, too, visually everything is in order. What could it be?

Tell me, is the X-lite Li-ion battery suitable for Rumba 531? In the online store they write what is suitable. You just need to install it and that's it, or do you need to reflash the robot?

do you mean a battery of increased capacity?) a year ago I changed my rumba 531 to this one, worn like mad, cleans better.

[Anastasenok]

Anastasenok, it's hard to say, you can remove the bottom cover and unscrew two screws and take out the side brush module, connect directly to the battery, two large contacts on the battery - two contacts on the motor, or to any 5-20V power supply, you can even to the Rumb's charger for a short time to check, the polarity is any, if the brush shaft rotates, then there is a problem inside the robot, if it does not rotate, it is worth buying a new module, it still costs 1000r.

[Medtech]

Medtech, thanks, I'll try to puzzle dad. He understands such nuances.

[GriNata]

GriNata, Natalia, I mean the Li-ion battery, because in the old points there is Ni-Cd. Have you installed a Li-ion battery in your rumba?