Hi mate, great to see you back in YT again. I had to laugh as I watched you trying to put the socket on the bolt. It's not easy when you're looking at the camera, been there many times. 😋 Good luck and keep em coming. 🙂 You might want to change the title though for people to be able to find it.
I find it weird how my roombas will map the house, and systematically clean it, doing over 160sqm in about 40mins to an hour. But most mowers seem to be random, and take hours and hours and hours to do a same kind of area.
I think it got something to do with the lidar technology that robot vacuums uses that maps out the house, using the walls as physical barriers. Since robot mowers are outside, it's not easy to map the yard, since a lot of yards misses these physical barriers.
If the issue is still there, then maybe the engine is over heating. You can check other things like pcv valve or coolant change? There is a coolant test that can be done with an amp meter. There is also a phone app called torque pro that check for engine errors that works with a Bluetooth obd.
I have a small 127m2 lawn - mostly weeds - in a garden that I am away from most of the time as my house is in France and I currently have to spend most of my time in England. 4 months ago I installed one of these to try to keep the weeds under control while I am away and I have to say that so far I am very impressed! I am aware that the manufacturers don't encourage using the landroid while unattended but life's not that simple as we all know and I think they would do well to maybe try to cater to remote users by adding a user override on the app to take control after it has gone into outside of wire lockdown, even after it has shut down, and directional controls to the app to try to get it back within the wire should it stray - assuming the user has visual CCTV contact as I do! My lawn is small but pretty uneven with a pronounced slope off around 2 sides and a fallen tree in one corner which is the main obstacle. I ran the guide wire on an isolated loop around this tree from the get go as I figured this would be prudent to keep the droid from getting stuck in the deep holes around the base and v-branch cul-de-sac at the other end. However, this has thrown up the only snag to my cunning plan in that if the droid goes into return to home mode automatically and hits the isolated circuit around the tree first it will just keep going around the tree in edge mode until it gets stuck. I don't know for sure if it will work out that it's on a separate loop and go looking for the outer wire circuit because it gets stuck in one of those holes I mentioned first. But that is the ONLY time it has got stuck so far and I now have 147 hours on the clock. I already had a CCTV system on my garden but I upgraded the existing static mute camera to PTZ with sound and added a second for full coverage. So now I can see and hear when the weather is good to set the droid off manually and keep an eye on it. I am now confident that there is no need to watch it while it's mowing but after 3 hours on a 4000mah battery it's time to call it home so I watch for when it's approaching the outer ring and hit the home button on the app. On the 4000mah battery sometimes it can go up to 4 hours and other times it will barely make 3 so it appears to vary the charge amount on a cycle which is why I need to keep an eye on it after 2 hours to make sure. Next spring I will re install the guide wire taking in more of the lawn now that I know what it can cope with and miss out the fallen tree. For that I guess I will need to get the OFF LIMITS kit. It does have the anti collision eyes so I might try that first to see how it goes. Hopefully then I will be able to leave it to run itself fully autonamously confident that it won't get stuck anywhere. Once on CCTV I watched it get caught up in overhanging brambles that had grown out since I last left the place. It was tugging back and forth and I thought for sure it would give up, but it just kept pulling, reversing, pulling one way, reversing pulling another over and over until eventually it was free. I have seen it get stuck in a couple of places on the lawn and work itself free, it's very tenacious! It also seems to learn as it hasn't got stuck in those places lately. So a lesson there is to make sure that anything likely to grow and overhang while you are away should be mercilessly cut back. Also, when it's really dry and the droid is in edge mode it will slide sideways on the one edge of the lawn a noticeable distance but it keeps going until it reacquires the wire and gets back on track. My garden is next to a road but has a high wall so not easily accessible for anybody with ill intent. In anycase the droid has built in security including a PIN - make sure to change it from default!! - to turn it on and an alarm which sounds and sends an app notification if picked up. This would make it not a lot of use as it stands to a would be theif but someone might decide to help themselves to the battery. One really good thing about the landroid from a security point of view is that it is so quiet it doesn't announce itself to the neighbourhood from an enclosed garden even when running. I hope to make a video about it on my channel probably early next year but in the meantime I can thoroughly recommend!
Just an update to my previous post. Having read the Haynes manual and looked at the wiring diagram. The only thing the Blue (1 wire ) ECT does is high temperature. The green (2 wire ) does everything else including the fan and gauge. I've disconnected the Blue and the car now runs as it should. The wire from the Blue sensor is connected into the green sensor ( somewhere ) this then goes to the ECU. So from my experience the Blue, is purely for 120 C overheat. I've had electronic thermostat on engine on both sensors whilst driving the car and both are fine IE around 80 C peak. With the Blue sensor plugged in according to live data it goes from 206 F to 245 F which brings the high temp light on. So I'm now driving around with Blue not connected. What is the probable cause is that somewhere the wire from the blue sensor is shorting out. But unplugged that won't occur. Hope this helps others.
changed both sensors. but keeps showing full temp only when the fan turns on. when the fan turns off goes back to 3 bars instant. ??? no clue any advice?
Hi I have this problem, car runs fine, then temp goes to 5 then drops. After a few times of this happening, engine management light came on. Read the codes and it said Po117 & Po118. Changed both sensors and thermostat. Road tested and still doing the same. Difference now is the temperature gauge doesn’t drop until car has cooled sufficiently after turning engine off. Yesterday after having the car running on my drive, for 45 minutes, I then took it for a drive after 4 mile went to high temp bar 5 turned off, then drove a mile it went up, stopped repeated, drove home 4 mile and left engine running for 45 minutes all was fine. Any ideas as to what it could be now? Just to update, I changed blue sensor a week ago, code then changed to Po117. Changed the green one yesterday. Brings us up to date.
Hi what happens if this is unplugged when engine running will the fan kick in? My Peugeot 206 is same engine and fan does not work old one was seized so I replaced it with new one it still doesn’t work when car is hot. Any advice???
When that happens, it means the battery has got over discharged. If I have that (it's not common), but I trick the battery working again with my bench power supply. You could try charging the battery that won't charge with the battery that is charged, but it could also damage both batteries.
If you keep your lawn mowed every week. Max 2 weeks these are great. If you don’t they’re terrible and will shut off because they can’t mow through the tall grass.
@@johnnodge4327 cool cool thx what I did was I bought two batteries that were 3.0ah they die kinda fast so today I ordered two 20v 6.0ah batts it’s said that’s better and gives you more run time 🙌🏽🔥
@@johnnodge4327 you know what it is I just got my lawnmower the other day and my grass grew long because no one was cutting it. I think that’s why my battery is running out fast because my grass is really long. It’s cutting it pretty good though but it have to work extra hard.
Going forward I’m going to cut more frequently like every week and a half before my grass gets really long again and I should at least get 25 to 30 minutes out of it cutting normal size grass
No. It's designed charge a 3S battery to 4.2 Volts Volts per cell, and nothing more. It's powered by the solar panel, so has a maximum input voltage of about 22V.
sudo mppt 😀 what a great descriiption! (dont have my glasses here....so ,sorry for spelling. sudo su was a long time working rootkt .....you know, i am shure. and also sorry for my poor english !
My car's radiator fan doesn't kick in and it does work when i turn on the aircon. I plug and unplug the grey plug on top of the radiator, sometimes it kicks in and the temperature gauge does down to 3 bars and then the fan stops and bars go up to 6. Is the solution in the video gonna fix my problem as well?
Spot on. We have a C3 999cc and we've been messing about looking at OBD error codes etc with no look (even mechanics!) This base model C3 has not gage just a blue temp light for cold and when off normal, however an engine warning comes on occasionally with can full on even when it's cold (as you describe a while back when you made this vid). So..... Thank you for doing this research and keeping this vid up there. Have a beer on me 😊.
Hi John, I tought I had left a comment here before but it must have got lost. I saw you can buy 4Ah batteries on Amazon but they are around £70 which seems a lot. I bought a Parkside 4Ah battery direct from Germany for under £30. It's interesting the air compressor is so good as most I have seen are hopeless. I guess you get what you pay for.
Hi Ali, thanks for your comment. Yes 4Ah batteries are expensive, and not need when I've so many smaller capacity packs. The tyre pump is very good, but then it's not a budget item. I got it on Amazon, so could return it if it disappointed, but I'm very happy with the performance and functionality of it.
I wish I had an automatic lawn cutter, it's one of my least favourite jobs. Unfortunately our garden is in three separate lawns and would be too big for your Worx anyway. 😒 It's good to here you're having no issues with yours.
Hello John.. My car is a 2003 Citroen C3 and I have the same problem, but I do not have the blue temperature sensor.... The temperature rises from 3 to 5 and the cooling fan does not work..... Do you have a solution? .... Thank you
It took some adjustment of the perimeter wire, and I had to fill in a very dips in the lawn, but now I've sorted the teething issues, it's going perfectly, and the grass has never looked so green.
Ive just bought one, its great..... but. On my maiden run found it stalled regularly. Weve just moved into a new place and the grass was long and thick, it had also been raining a lot (but not in the previous 24hrs or more). I set the mower to turbo and had the body lifted pretty high and every time Id hit a big clump of grass itd stop. Im not familiar with electric lawnmowers, and maybe Im expecting too much, but does this sound normal to you? Thanks for the vid!
This mower is light, with small motor by petrol standards, so it needs a bit of care when the grass is long. Mine has no problems with longer grass, but you have too take it slowly, or the blades bog down and stall. I now mainly use a robot mower, with the battery mower being used for the first cut of the season, and to do the edges where the robot can't get.
@@johnnodge4327 thanks for the speedy response. Yep, sounds like I shouldnt expect too much and go easier. The lawn was in pretty bad shape so maybe it was a one off. Robot mower sounds great! Maybe my next upgrade when I get tired of doing it manually (and have more funds) :) Thanks again
