Robot Reviews

I have a Neato XV I bought used last year. It had an issue and I checked with Neato and amazingly it was still under warranty. They sent me another unit and now it get the vision blocked error. I contacted Neato and they game me procedures to try on it and if they fail, as I bet they will, they will...

I am a long ago used Roomba man now a used Neato man. I had the opportunity to buy a used SR2AK9000UG and see if I like it better than a Neato. I still want to dabble in the BotVac but the Samsung looks like a upgrade to a Neato.

Any personal thoughts?

Hello I replaced my pcb in my Neato and broke the plastic clip holding the lcd ribbon cable to the pcb. I tried using hot glue to hold the cable onto the board and it has not worked so far. Does anyone have an idea how to hold this on now? I hope I have not wore out the cable in the many attempts to...

This may have been a bad battery issue. I swapped batteries and the Neato has not gone into hibernation since. I am still testing and will post what I find out after using this a few days.

I connected the Neato to my USB and PC, the Neato does not wake up. Any other ideas? It does not bother me to reset it by removing the battery every now and then, but this was to be a gift and I wish I could fix it.

Ok, order sent. Thanks Vic!

That will depend upon your comfort level when removing and installing surface mount devices vs soldering wire to the foil traces then soldering the other end of the wire onto a TO-220 case with heat shrink tubing. My son will be doing this, and the soldering is his strong suit. I have had him remov...

So what do I get, the SMD case or the larger TO-220 package?

Hey there Vic where do I purchase the U2 and U4 from?

I have an antique here. I replace the battery and plugged into the charger, is gives the red fading charging light all the time. It never finishes charging. When you hit the power button, nothing happens. I believe I brought this up in a forum on here where most likely Vic suggested take it apart an...

I bought another Bobsweep, I sold the first one. This is the same model, the red one. Bought it for $35 it had an error 0 on it when it tried to run. According to the Bobsweep website, it was a stuck left wheel. Using a flashlight, needle nose and a small screwdriver I pulled a complete hair bret fr...

vic7767 wrote:Wonder if that Neato is suffering from the C-10 capacitor issue ?

Hi Vic you should be charging me by now with all the questions I have put on there the last week.

I suppose the fix is to replace the C-10 capacitor? Is there a diagnostic for it?

Hello I have an XV-14 that does a weird thing. After a cleaning it sometimes shows a dim green light and won't poor on, or charge. The only thing to wake it up is unplug one of the batteries. It does not do this all the time. These are new batteries so I don't think that is the issue. Any ideas?

Scooba cradle question. When a battery is in the cradle, one light is solid green and another blinks green twice repeatedly. Does this mean there is a charging issue?

Alarm + 4 beeps • Power Supply has failed •Need to test the Power Supply and Scooba. Hello Vic, thanks for the advice. Captain Obvious cam and hit me in the head. The charger was at fault, I used my cradle charger and it is happy and charging directly connected to the Scooba. I have only heard of p...

Hello, I have two Scooba 380's. I have two newer batteries and just got a new one today. When I plug the Scooba's directly to charge, I get the Error 4 which from iRobot is "Scooba is experiencing a charging error. Battery and DryDock™ The charging contacts on the DryDock charging and drying st...

Here is a new one to me. 560 with please and inspect Roombas cliff sensors error. Swapped out twice and still get the same damn error, so it must be the PCU board. Anyone have a working board for sale?

I bought the QD Electric cleaner and used it on two 530 Roombas I had a charging error 3 on. Holy mackeral one works like a champ, the other I finished today and I am happy to say is charging right now as I type this! I am super hyped! I was going to part them out but now I am happy to say this real...

I went ahead and bought a used rev 113 from EBay. When it gets in and I do the transplant, I will post the results.

There are only two type boards. Rev 64 (newer models) and rev 113, (earlier models) When replacing, you must obtain the board with the same type of User interface ribbon cable. Early models used a friction / compression connector, later models use an actual pinned connector. Interesting mine looks ...