Hi All,
I am wondering if someone has a Roomba 780 and can confirm whether the power is a standard block transformer and whether it can accept 110v/220v/240v, or is region specific?
The wife is looking at getting one from the US, and I am wondering whether I need to arrange a replacement supply, or just need an AU figure of 8 cable.
TIA
Pax
Don't even consider one - they do not work. The useless device gets stuck within all furniture & does not perform as promised in all advertisements - i.e. going back to the base station - it prefers to sit around your furniture doing nothing but turn in continuous circles until you move it again to another area where it will continue to do the same. Great for a laugh if you can afford to spend the money - but if you want a product that does what you purchased it for, stay with the conventional vacuums.
We have a 760 which we purchased recently and it does our whole house with no intervention and better than the conventional vacuum we had. We have 2 cats and a dog, so it has a very tough job! Not sure what you're doing wrong or if you got a faulty device. But our irobot was well worth the spend.
I agree, most people that run into problems or are unhappy with them fail to clean them properly and maintain them. It is a ROBOT, it needs a bit of attention to keep all the systems working. When they "run around in circles" it is likely thinking it is over a particularly dirty area, and does a spot clean by design. Of course if the sensor is covered in gunk then it thinks the whole place is a disaster zone so tends to stay in spot clean mode continuously. Keeping the brushes and rollers spotless will do wonders for its cleaning ability, I agree it works great with cat hair. An improvement I made to mine which makes it clean even better was to replace the pickup bin with the one from the pet-cleaning model they make. It is a bigger chamber and uses a different and more efficient filter system. Called Aerovac, you can get them on eBay e.g. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/aerovac-roomba-bin-REAL-TIME-SAVE… They are a perfect genuine replacement for the original one, well worth the money I found.
I'm not sure if it is the same power supply as the lower models which are region specific, or it is a better multi-region one. If it is the standard supply, they are capable of being modified, it requires a few simple component changes and a different plug. Various instructions are available on the internet e.g. http://www.schneordesign.com/Avi/irobot/roomba_mod1.htm