Comments on: iRobot’s Roomba 530 – Is It Worth It?

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By: Roomba Battery Update | FettesPS

Roomba Battery Update | FettesPS — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:14:09 +0000

[...] well my battery was doing as I knew it had been about 6 months since I bought the Roomba. When I first wrote about my Roomba I estimated the battery lasted over an hour and a half, today it lasted 1h 16m before coming to a [...]

By: Roomba Update – 3 Months In | FettesPS

Roomba Update – 3 Months In | FettesPS — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:29:52 +0000

[...] months ago I wrote excitedly about a new purchase, the Roomba 430S. So how is it holding out? How well does it clean? [...]

By: weissie

weissie — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:36:57 +0000

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By: RoombaLvr

RoombaLvr — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:48:26 +0000

Great blog! I have 2 Roombas, one of which I’ve had for almost 5 years. I love them and couldn’t imagine being without one!
Just a note, since the Roomba ‘sees’ the Home Base using Infrared technology, there’s no way that it could have found the Home Base in your office when it was running in the kitchen, since it couldn’t ‘see’ the IR beam. If you want the robot to be able to navigate from room to room, you would need to purchase a model with the Virtual Wall Lighthouses.
Because the robot spent time searching around for the Home Base and didn’t find it, it ended up with a dead battery – at this point too dead to be able to even manually Dock.
If you run the Roomba a few times a week with regular maintenance, you should see improvement so that you don’t have to empty the bin during cleaning cycles.