Blue Pearl Robot - anyone know anything about them?

[Unabomber007]

Nice review.....makes me anxious to try out my new Aquabot Viva AKA Blue Diamond RC when I get home in 8 days.

[mr.bbq]

Good review, my dolphin is 2 years old now and still working great (crosses fingers) I will look forward to the reviews in a year from now as a lot of us loved the dolphin at first, I still do, because of course mine is actually working great!

Anyway best of luck and can't wait for Carl's review of the Diamond.

R

[rak70]

Any new news. Is everything going good with the unit? Mine came in the mail the other day but have not had a chance to use it yet...

[cleancloths]

Its like the Eveready Energizer -- it just keeps going and going, no problems to report as of now.

[rak70]

Well I ran my Blue Pearl yesterday for the first time and I believe I also have the 2007 model. It shut off after about 2 hours.

Seemed to get most of my pool and was much faster than the Dolphin. Way more powerful as well. One problem I saw was it would do wheelies occasionally when coming down from the wall transitions. I have a 35 degree or so slope in the deep end and I saw it ride the back tracks and almost flip on its back when it reached the bottom a couple of times. Like it was too light. Cleancloths is that what you meant when you said you saw yours tumble? Other than that it seemed to do a good job. Most of the pool was cleaned in one cycle, 85% or so, with the only missed spots in the shallow end... Still not sure if I'll keep it or not, I have another week to decide.

[cleancloths]

Yes I guess that is a similar description to what I noticed. But I am very pleased with it. I was away for 5 days and just came home and threw it in the pool. In just 30 minutes the pool looks great already. I think mine runs closer to 3 hours than 2, but you can always restart it. It does a much better job than the Dolphin. What is really nice is that it makes random turns and does not go in just straight lines.

[rak70]

After using the Blue Pearl some more I've decided it's a keeper. I've run mine about 5-6 times now and am really happy with the results. The coverage is good and it gets the job done very fast. It covers my pool within the first hour or so. 22x40 figure 8.