I’m currently in the middle of testing my first robotic lawn cutting, and I am a home -tech reviewer shell I used to do. It has to be politely, a strange journey, and I’m not yet at the end.
When I was presented my first lawnboat, I assumed that this would be the same experience to test today’s best robot vacuums. I’ve been examining these people for a year now, and for most parts, setting them is a dodel: Plug in your dock, spend five minutes on the ‘Quick mapping’ run, and you’ve been. You can do the setup personal and improve performance, but they are not necessary. You do not need to be a techways to handle it.
Demands robot cutters and robots vacuums are the same: both have to navigate an area logically, cover all the ground and avoid obstacles, and then find a way back to their charge dock. However, this shows that a lawnboat is not just an outer robovic with some extra razor blades. The big, important difference is in the process of navigation. On a large scale, the majority of robot vacuums visit using the leader, while robots rely on satellites that cut lawn.
The model I am reviewing is a memorial yoka mini, and it mainly uses the GPS and RT recipient for navigation. Although it will not be the same for all models – old boats can still use boundary wire, and some of the most modern models, such as EUFY E15 robot lawn cutting, rely on cameras and does not require RTK recipient – this is a very common type of different types of Linboat.
I still don’t have to work as I still want, but I have yet learned some important lessons. Here are some important things to know before going on your lawn boot trip
1. RTK Recipient Placement is key
Most robots, including my review models, come with the RT recipient, the recipient of the RT. This is an important part of how the lawn boots navigate without boundary wires – it mainly helps to adjust the satellite positioning data so it is valid within a few centimeters instead of a few meters. However, such a margin may be the difference between the middle of the lawn and the mid or the flowers.
The shape of an RT recipient is like the upper part of a large mushroom, in which the antenna extends from its base. Yuka’s instructions told me that it could ride on the pole and be stuck in the lawn, or is connected to the side of my house. Option seemed to be the easiest – at least not because I was checking at my parents’ home, and my father was particularly close guards of his electrical tools and would not be kind to the new holes appearing in the side of his home.
Unfortunately, if you want your lawnboat to work effectively, the option is two high choices. The recipient of the RT relies on a direct line of satellite sighting in the sky. This means that he needs to be in a high, fixed position with a wide -ranging view of the sky, in many different directions, without trees and structures that stand above it.
While attaching an RT recipient from your home (or, in my case, the wooding garage timber) is a bit work, keeping it in the lawn is initially more difficult than that. The recipient requires a power source, whose limits can go, and you also have to make sure that when it is located, the boot will not put grass on its power cable.
2. Your charge dock requires good, fixed position
Separate from the recipient of the RT, the lawnboat has a charge dock, where he returns to receive his batteries. Finding a good, fixed space to stay in charge dock is amazingly difficult.
The earth needs to be flat and tight. It needs to be in a position where the lawn can access the grass pieces that require cutting. It needs to be close to a relatively A power outlet, and is in position so that it does not cause grass to its charge cable. Whether or not it may need to be in the Wi -Fi’s reach of the house (I’m still investigating this section). And since the boot needs a direct look for at least some satellites when it is postpone, it cannot go under a shelter nor collide between the structures. The long story short, I haven’t found anywhere in my test yard.
Initially, I tried the charge station on the concrete area from the back door, but at this point, the robot kept telling me that the dock had moved and could not find a way back. The reason I think is that it is impossible to connect the concrete station to the ground (or least difficult), and when the lawnboat was being remote control / in and out, the dock was moving a bit.
3. The yard is full of unexpected obstacles
Since starting my setup process, I am surprised to find out how unexpected obstacles have made myself aware. The lawn boot is entangled in fruit plants. Whenever he is asked to dig into a trench whenever he is asked to go on his way – confessed to a deeply deep – pebbles. Less precise mapping and positioning also have effects: There is a grass path that is probably two lawn boats wide on which my review model refuses to cut grass because it is very tight. I also had to leave a chinky border on the edge of a shallow Brooke that walks on the edge of the courtyard, fearing that the lawn can try to take a dip.
None of these things are particularly amazing, and I don’t think they represent the failures by the lawnboat. But I will urge you to take a moment to consider the order of your courtyard before buying one of them.
Is it worth it?
At the time of writing, I have reached the point where the lawnboat will happily cause the lawn areas of the lawn areas in my test yard to grass, but he will not return to his dock without help. Even removal of it has been a challenge, and I lie if I said that I did not consider it tasting and working with it in the neighbor’s pool. But at the moment I am really feeling positive about technology.
You see that the lawn is such a good job. The results are clean and it does not lose any place, and it will take less and down the steep standing attitudes without complaining. This is less trying to do manually. I also have no objection that it needs to control the remote on tight strips that refuses to make a map, because it is still something I can do with my phone, while sitting on the deck lounge.
If I can find somewhere to live in the dock, so I don’t have to control the remote or take the boot from its base, I will be really happy with it. And maybe now, I’ll forget the pain of setting it.
