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<\/p>\niGarden\u2019s claims of providing 10 hours of running time in floor-only mode were accurate in my testing; however, I achieved only about seven hours of operation in the more power-intensive full coverage mode. That\u2019s still plenty of juice for two or three full cleanings before a recharge is needed. Officially, iGarden specs the robot to clean pools of up to 1,274 square feet in size.<\/p>\n
I was less enamored with the cleanup process after operations were complete, and not just because the robot must be retrieved with a pole instead of coming to the surface when done. The filter basket is plenty large, but it can only be accessed through a relatively small hatch. It\u2019s tough to get all the debris out through this hatch by hosing it down, particularly since the shape of the basket includes a kind of shelf on the inside, where debris is both hard to reach and hard to see. A more open basket design or a larger hatch would be a huge help come cleanup time.<\/p>\n
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Photograph: Chris Null<\/p>\n
The basic box is designed with a fine-mesh filter on all sides, but this can be enhanced with a reusable second filter, included in the box, that snaps onto the outside of the basket. This filter has a finer mesh count than the filter on the basket itself, but despite that, most users probably won\u2019t need it. I didn\u2019t find it made much of a difference in my tests, but those facing problems with lots of fine-grained dirt and sand may find it helpful.<\/p>\n
A Massive Price Cut<\/p>\n
At $1,599, iGarden has aggressively priced this robot, knocking $1,000 off the price of last year\u2019s K Pro 150 while keeping performance more or less the same. That makes this a much more enticing buy than the K series, and while it\u2019s still a bit on the high side, it\u2019s now roughly in line with a number of other top-shelf robots on the market. If you don\u2019t mind getting a little wet when it comes time to retrieve and clean out the robot, it should be a very strong candidate for the job as your robotic pool guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"iGarden\u2019s claims of providing 10 hours of running time in floor-only mode were accurate in my testing; however,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,563,564,7569,507,80],"class_list":["post-347392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-robots","tag-shopping","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}