Roomba Review

scooba 5900 charging

rostropovich — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:53:19 GMT

Hi all,

Great site, good fun & really helpful!

I've a scooba 5900 which is working fine, although I have no product code below the battery so I don't know if it's osmoed. I therefore don't leave the battery in the charger or scooba, & charge before & after each use, just to be on the safe side.

However, when I first bought it, (a month ago), I tried to charge overnight for the first charge, but I (I think mistakenly) stopped it when the charging light indicated full charge after about 3 hours. All works ok (I can if I wish get 2 cycles at least, but don't choose to), but my question is, is it worth doing a full overnight charge now, even though all is ok? Also, in the scooba or the charging brick?

Thanks all!!

RE: Help me plan for 3 Roombas - areas/layout

don_xvi — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:35:29 GMT

I'm no expert at this, I don't even bother with using virtual walls, but if you can have all those doors open, I'd try to have one cover BR1&2 and part of the hallway, another for the Library & Living room and the third for the BR3 through kitchen.

RE: Help me plan for 3 Roombas - areas/layout

June — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:31:16 GMT

Well, I'm thinking of having one Scheculer do the livingroom-library, one for the kitchen-hallway, and the third for the utility-bedroom3-entryway and they'd run daily while I'm gone. And then when I get home they'll hopefully be charged and I can manually put them in the two other bedrooms.

I have been trying to figure out a schedule with differently programmed virtual walls to guide the Roomba from the hallway to bedrooms 1 and 2 on alternate days or something, but I can't figure that one out...

Or if the utility-kitchen-half of hallway is one area and hallway and bedrooms another, leaving the third scheduler for livingroom-library. But that means the entryway and bedroom 3 are left undone. Might work better that way though? the utility room needs to be done daily, but the way to bedroom 3 is a little cramped... Although I'd love to get teh entryway done too, but entryway-utility-kitchen-hallway(part) will probably be too puzzling for one roomba...

Any comments would be welcome

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RE: New model brushes and bins - for sale seperately?

dura321 — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:52:24 GMT

I've seen the new product and the sweeper bin is just as if you had a dirt dog sweeper (no vacuum or filter)
The brushes on the other hand are shorter bristles and a rubber sweeper on the frame. The beater bar is no different except it's blue in color.

They will be out before the holidays as part of a ( for pets kit )

RE: irobot roomba battery light alway red!

don_xvi — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:02:58 GMT

Sounds even worse than mine...
When you mentioned the 72 hour charges, was that including resetting the battery monitor ? Pull the battery out and hold down the power button for 10 seconds or so, then try charging & running, give it long charges (72 hours if you can stand it).
Then you'll find the battery is still junked, and go with either circuitcity.com or amazon for $40 or one of the Lithium-ion conversions from glo69, vic7677 (PM them) or roombaexchange.com.

irobot roomba battery light alway red!

rebswifty — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:48:04 GMT

After overnight charging the battery light will be green. After unplugging and starting it automatically turns red and only runs for 15 min, tops. I have done thorough cleaning, including replacing filters, and over 72 hour charges but nothing seems to work. Anyone have any ideas on what to do?

RE: Ugh! 560 always wants me to clean the brushes

boomtastic — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:30:17 GMT

Since it just died again, you're getting a PM.

RE: Ugh! 560 always wants me to clean the brushes

vic7767 — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:19:58 GMT

boomtastic, if you would like to avoid repeating the job you are having to do on your Cleaning HEad Module, there is a more permanent solution that involves installing my 3 ball bearing set inside your brush gear assembly. If interested just send me a PM.

RE: New model brushes and bins - for sale seperately?

fancyfreewv — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:56:36 GMT

Are you following the tools suggestions shown on our WIKI? I have three shelties and gobs of hair and it doesn't take much time at all using the tools that work best. Seam ripper, the hair removal tool they send with the bot, and tweezers.