AIPERScuba X1 Cordless Robotic Pool Cleaner, 6600 GPH High-Power Suction with Dual-Jet, Horizontal Waterline Scrubbing, 180 Mins for Inground Pools up to 2,150 sq.ft

I have now tried out three different pool cleaning robots, and this is my favorite (while also the most expensive).I love that it is cordless. My first robot had to be plugged in. While still much better than manual vacuuming, it was a little bit of a process to take it out and put it away.The charging dock is also a great feature. Just drop it on the dock and it will be ready for your next use. The one minor issue here is that you don't want to put it on the dock while wet. So there is a second step to charging. Remove from pool and put it somewhere to dry, then you have to remember to put it on the dock.I have a kidney shaped pool with a bowled bottom and the coverage seems to be good. It has a random mode for odd shaped pool and a grid pattern for rectangular. I tried both, and even though mine is irregular, I could tell that the rectangular mode is great - much better than the other cordless robot I tried. It finds the wall, backs up, turns ninety degrees, moves forward a little, then turns another 90 to go back down the next lane. Very precise, and I'm sure it will have excellent coverage. The random pattern is a little less precise, but it does seem to have some logic, and does not get stuck in loops like I have seen others do.There are two filters - one fairly coarse that is always used, and a very fine one that you can choose to use or not. Overall, this is a good system. The fine filter gets out almost anything - fine silt, dead algae, and even pollen. The coarse one is good for bulk cleanup. We just had a storm and I have a million leaves in the pool. This did a nice job cleaning those up. If I'm nitpicking, I would like an intermediate option. The coarse filter is too coarse for normal use - the storm scenario is about it. But the fine filter is very fine. It can get clogged and affect performance, but also, it is kind of a pain to clean. Takes a good amount of time with the hose to get all of the particles off of it.Overall though, I'm so happy to have this and not have to mess with vacuum hoses.

The media could not be loaded. I have been reluctant to get one of these for a long time due to the fact that you must insert and remove a pool robot from the pool manually for a cleaning cycle and charging. My current workhorse is the Zodiac MX8 Elite with the rotating rubber scrub brushes on the underside. I rarely remove that suction-side cleaner from the pool, but I had to compromise on the pump settings to increase the flow rate (and power draw) in order to get the MX8 to move fast enough to cover the whole 23k gallon, 16' x 32' pool.The Scuba X1 is a revelation for me. It completed the entire pool _and_ scrubbed the entire waterline in less than 2 hours, and it did a better job than the MX8 to boot. My suction-side cleaner never makes it to the waterline with my current pump settings. I counted only 2 leaves left in the pool after the Scuba X1 completed its run, and those probably sunk from the surface after the Scuba was finished. Overall I was surprised that it covered all the corners of my pool effectively since it didn't run over the bottom perpendicular to the walls but vacuumed diagonally.I used both the mesh basket and the fine filter for the first run. The instructions say to only use the fine filter if the pool isn't too dirty since the suction performance will decrease with too much dirt clogging the filter. My pool water was clear and the bottom looked like it was free of dirt to the naked eye. After the Scuba was finished the initially white fine filter was dark with dirt and small bits from citrus blossoms, but I cleaned it up almost completely in 15 minutes with a hard spray from my hose. I was astonished that it picked up so much stuff.The Scuba X1 itself is fairly heavy, which might put off some potential users, but I didn't have any problems carrying it to the pool and dropping it in. I was really curious to see how it would handle my stairs: it made it to the second step on each approach and successfully extricated itself each time it climbed (see video). However, it didn't really clean the stairs themselves and there was some debris left. Regardless, my current cleaner never climbs the stairs and usually gets stuck there.Since observing how well it cleans, I decided to put the pool's skimmer basket back in, remove the MX8, reduce the gallon-per-minute scheduled pump setting by ~30%, and increase the run time to see if I can now clean both the surface and bottom more effectively for lower electricity costs. I'm hopeful.If you have the money, I highly recommend comparing this pool robot against your suction- or pressure-side cleaner to see if it's a worthwhile switch. It's definitely an improvement for me, but my pool is quite old and adjacent to lots of leaf-shedding trees.