Rumba - robot vacuum cleaner for dry cleaning

[Shine]

which is better to buy

Which one they bought Shine?

[Candy]

Candy
Selecting a robot based on one criterion - price, is a thankless job, it's like buying a dress - if only it is red.

Good day.
A problem emerged in Rumbika: the brushes do not spin. I checked it by testing: everything is OK, they spin gorgeous. I put on the floor - ficwams, do not spin ((
Has anyone encountered such a problem? What to do?

[Medtech]

Medtech, the battery on my 780 ordered a long life. I read the last 10-15 pages and I can't decide which one is better to take: lithium-ion or nickel? Any information on lithium compatibility? Or only through the firmware, and how to carry out the flashing, is it possible at home or only through the SC? Can there be any statistics on how long lithium batteries last, are they worth such an overpayment?
Already my head is spinning from the abundance of information. I need to order faster, I'm used to such an assistant.
Please help me make the right choice.

[Lucha]

Lucha, lithium ones work much longer, I do not know about the firmware, unfortunately.

[Lucha]

Lucha, I have an old Rumba 531 and I bought a non-branded lithium battery. Everything worked fine, just put it on, without any flashing and the robot works fine. I love that lithium ion batteries have no memory effect and do not need to be fully discharged before recharging. I have had this battery for six months, while the robot works as long as it did before, when I just bought a new battery.

[Rita]

Rita, ludmila_27.79, Thank you. I'm going to order. Yesterday I started looking for a link in the thread to the store, but I got hooked on this firmware.

there is a problem in Rumbika: the brushes do not spin.

I had such a problem on 531 Rumba. A couple of times I disassembled the block with gears that are responsible for the brushes. I cleaned and washed every gear. Enough for about six months. Then she spat and took it to the service. for 2600 I completely changed the block along with the brushes. The flight is normal.

[Medtech]

Medtech, Sergei, please tell me, is it possible to "preserve" the battery from the robot for long-term storage due to non-use of the vacuum cleaner? If so, how? Subtracted that a fully charged battery should be removed from the robot and stored in a dry place. It was even recommended to put it in a refrigerator, but to exclude a humid environment, that is, to pack it tightly enough. Whether such a storage system is correct, I do not know. It is also advised to insert the battery into the vacuum cleaner and charge it every six months. What can you say about such manipulations? What do you recommend? Thank you!

How much do you want to preserve? And what is the battery from?

[Sergei]

Sergei, thanks for the answer. Perhaps 3 months (and there, how it goes). How long can you store a battery separately? I meant the native battery operating in this 620th robot - model DC 14.4V 3000Ah Ni-MH. Or how to understand "what is the battery from"?

Good afternoon, experts in robot vacuum cleaners!
I want to choose a new robot.
The answers to the questions will be as follows.
1. total area of ​​about 80 sq. m
2. Rooms 3 and corridor
3. The largest room is 20sq. m
4.Laminate and tiles, no carpets, there is a small rug in the hallway
5. The cat is short-haired, but with a downy undercoat. Fluffy, in short.
6. I have long hair
7. Mostly husband
8. Experience of use is Rumba 562.
9. The area is prepared for use
10. Budget ... the main thing is to solve our problems.

And one problem came to light when using 562 points. Doesn't cope with our fur with the cat. Rather, it copes, but then cleaning the vacuum cleaner itself takes so much time that it negates all the benefits.Hair and fluff are wrapped around brush bearings and wheels. You have to completely disassemble the brush, cut your hair with scissors and engage in other shenanigans.

Does a company have a robot that does not have such a problem?

[Svettika]

Omega, iRobot 8xx and higher series, even if you put a trash can from the 6xx series with a blue filter on your 560, it will already be easier, but it all depends on the thickness and length of the hair, as well as the frequency with which you start the robot.



Svettika if for 3 months, then just remove it from the robot that has been charging for at least 2-3 hours, put it in a cool place, once every six months you need to put the battery in the robot and put it on charge until the green light appears. These are the manufacturer's recommendations, they are really no different from any recommendations for preserving metal hydride batteries.

if you put on your 560 a trash can from a 6xx series with a blue filter, it will already be easier, but it all depends on the thickness and length of the hair, as well as the frequency with which you start the robot.

Thank you, the hair is thin and long, from the cat mostly fluff, does this complicate or simplify the task?

562 went to another residence, which does not have a cat and therefore copes. Otherwise, I would probably have already ordered to live long.

Lyudmila, we have rumba 9xx series. Hair is easy to clean (I have long).
At friends of iClebo - I'm afraid to lie, in my opinion, Arte. I will clarify after the 24th, if there is still a need. Three long-haired girls - a mother and two daughters, plus a cat. I know what they like. I will ask about the ease of brushing from hair.

Lyudmila, we have rumba 9xx series. Hair is easy to clean (I have long).
At friends of iClebo - I'm afraid to lie, in my opinion, Arte. I will clarify after the 24th, if there is still a need. Three long-haired girls - a mother and two daughters, plus a cat. I know what they like. I will ask about the ease of brushing from hair.

Thank you for your attention. I like how the floor is cleaned in 562, that is, in the fifth episode. But the time that has to be spent on restoring the working capacity of the vacuum cleaner, if 3-4 hairs are wound around the brush bearings, reduce all the time savings with the help of the robot to nothing.
Therefore, yes, I am interested in the question of how new vacuum cleaners clean themselves.

[Medtech]

Medtech, Sergei, thanks for your reply and recommendations! I will stick to this battery charging scheme.

Sergey, I have a Roomba 631, I bought it in 2015. We went on vacation for a month and after that the vacuum cleaner began to work for 15-25 minutes. It's probably time to change the battery. Can you tell me where to buy and which one? Thank you.

[plod7]

plod7, I'm not Sergey, but I'll tell you about my experience! I bought a lithium-ion battery for rumba on ebay. Starting from the 500 series, they are all the same in shape. I took the best ratio of price and battery capacity. The larger the capacity, the more expensive. I am very pleased, the vacuum cleaner works for two hours without recharging!

thanks for the answer

[plod7]

plod7,

here I can recommend a lithium-ion battery from an unknown manufacturer, you can of course buy from an irobot, you can on Ali, you can here
🔗 quite a decent lithium battery with good-quality cells, a good discharge charge controller, a one-year warranty, sold by my friend from the forums from Lipetsk, he sent me something for testing, as a result, many samples were rejected, and this good one, offered me to sell them too, but to me closer repair.

I bought on Ali for my 630 a battery 2 times more power, new filters, brushes and little things for cleaning brushes. Disassembled it all, washed and cleaned. Now she works like a beast, she closed the bathroom so that I could clean the carpet there, so I almost took down the door, I'm afraid of him

I just can't decide where to buy a battery. I read here that Ali and ebay are short enough for six months. And here, 🔗I don’t understand, I’m a woman. Who knows, please tell me where to buy.

[plod7]

plod7, in secret, as a woman to a woman, I will tell you. For a battery to last longer, you need to buy a lithium-ion battery. This is significantly more expensive. I bought on ebee. I was looking for the best option for the ratio of price and battery capacity.The higher the capacity, the more expensive.

[plod7]

plod7, I bought a regular one on Ali. Works great. No complaints. It has been working for three years, and maybe more

Damn, cool thing) I have always dreamed of a robot vacuum cleaner. and what about the price?

I ask for advice, please. Has rumba 780. He is about 6 years old. Yesterday the brushes stopped spinning, as I understand the brush reducer broke down, I wanted to disassemble it, but I got stuck on one screw, the thread was torn off. Apparently my husband disassembled a couple of years ago (((((In addition, he is of course not in the best condition, the front wheel fell out, for some reason I did not think at all), the upper beacon broke off, chatters on the wires ( I will glue it on superglue), a couple more plastic breakdowns (maybe super glue will also help.) But is it really worth bothering with repairs? Is it better to try to disassemble or repair? to the other end of the city. The financial issue is also acute. Or start saving up for a new vacuum cleaner? Thank you all.

[Arlei]

Arlei, Leila, I have an ancient 620. After cleaning, his brushes stopped working a couple of times. Helps remove all brushes and wiggle their body a little (effortlessly)

[Thurtle]

Thurtle, no, I still managed to disassemble the gearbox, dust, although I clean everything regularly. Everything worked, now it's just a matter of gluing the plastic parts, hands do not reach yet. Thank you !

[Medtech]

Medtech, Hello Sergey! I had 8 years old rumba 581. Now I gave it to my parents as a working one, and my husband bought a new robot rumba 606 model. Being the owners of 581 rumba, we concluded that we immediately threw out the remote control, the coordinators removed it three months later and programmed the rumba for all 8 years only once for cleaning on a schedule.
We did not consider more advanced series, because an ordinary brush is important for us so that it pulls out dust from our porous linoleum, and in the new series there are two rubber ones and the presence of extra sensors and electronics scares them with breakages (LG Hom Bot is on the balcony, apparently hit sensor and all his electronics went crazy, about repairs on the forums, no one reads everything problematic). Therefore, the choice fell on the 606 model, since there is everything that we need, and plus the price in mvideo was about 12,000 or 14,000 rubles. But ... specifically, I didn’t like his dust collector at all - his filter, or rather a bad filter clamp, lets all the fine dust through and sprays it back into the room (the entire blow hole has become white). On the side and in front of the filter, grooves are provided - everything is fine, but behind only this cheap seal, of course, the sponge is simple laugh. I just put my filter rag in there - I solved the problem, but I thought that I could replace it with a 700 model dust collector, I liked it from the video reviews. So I wanted to ask you .... do you by any chance know if the 700 to 600 series dust collector is suitable? On the Internet I see that compatibility with 600 is not written, but in practice someone tried to check it ... Thanks in advance!)

Hello everyone. The battery has run out, I have already changed it on my Rumba and nothing opens with Ali from the previous link, it was too long ago. Can anyone share a link to a recent good battery purchase? At least which store to knock on?

[Chamomile]

Chamomile, Olya, I bought here

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Bought two and a half years ago, still works great

Good day! Tell me, are there any happy owners of iRobot Roomba i7 + here?
I'd like to know real reviews about him!

Friends, hello everyone. I really hope that this Temka is alive, and they will answer me).
I am upset - they unknowingly kept the rumba for almost two weeks without charging. Now what? Only in service?
I immediately put it back on charge. but already for half a day he stood, and does not show signs of life (((

[Robin bobin]

Robin bobinHow old is the battery?

[Robin bobin]

Robin bobin, buy a new battery. And everything will be all right. It was so with me. I could not reanimate the battery, it works fine with a new one

Not long ago, in January I ordered a 630 battery for Ali, everything works with a bang.

#Aliexpress RUB1 709.32 38% OFF | IRobot Roomba Vacuum Cleaner Battery

There are also other models. The seller answered questions, sent by CDEK

kept the rumba for almost two weeks without charging.

and what, it was impossible? When we were leaving, we turned off the base at the rumba. Works. But our native batteries died 4 years after the purchase. The husband himself made a new battery from his stock with the necessary characteristics - they have been working for 2 years already.

[kuzashka]

kuzashka, did not leave anywhere. There were little kittens and didn't start the robot. I just washed the floor every day. The kittens were playing, apparently, they moved Rumba a little. And she did not stand on charge for a week for sure, perhaps more. But the battery in it was no longer fresh, it quickly sat down, in contrast to the good, recently purchased. And no more rumba started. I took out the battery, tried to overload it, kept it on charge, nothing helped. I bought a new battery. It's all right now. I took it here

[Chamomile]

Chamomile, Thank you. Our homemade ones turned out to be 3 times cheaper than ready-made ones. It's strange. The kids scolded us for keeping the Braava on a fast charge all the time. Her battery died less than a year after the purchase. The type can not be constantly kept on charge. To be honest, I do not remember what is written in the manuals, but now we have the rumba on charging, as before, and we charge Brava before work and not on fast charging (I constantly forget to connect)

[kuzashka]

kuzashka, I do not quite understand what you are writing about, then Rumba, then Brava.

I will send another 500 series about the Rumba robot vacuum cleaner. I have had it since 2011 and changed the battery twice. Here is the second time last year in the fall. both times I bought on Ali. Here is the last time I took the link in my previous post. And I know about my vacuum cleaner that it must always be at the base. In theory, I know that if you leave, you need to remove the battery from the vacuum cleaner. On arrival, put the battery back in place and put it back on the clock base at 12, overnight or all day. But she herself did not leave and did not take out. I was in the hospital, the vacuum cleaner remained at the base. Nothing happened to him.

[Chamomile]

Chamomile, I will write differently. We both had batteries dying. Both were at the base constantly. We do not disconnect anyone during departure. But after Brava's battery died, they stopped putting it on the base - we charge it only before work. Rumba still stands on the base all the time - he hasn't done anything with homemade batteries for many years. Working hours 3 times a week for both

Fuuuh, I read how to restart it, he woke up. His battery is fresh, I was not in the mood to buy a new one. Thanks to everyone who sympathized).
We accidentally also happened to be removed from the base. We left, our dad lived with us, the robot interfered with him, he moved it)

Fuuuh, I read how to restart it, he woke up.

Can you give more details

And there for different models in different ways. For mine, 676, you need to press and hold for 10 seconds simultaneously spot and dock.