KRKeegan - Roomba

Roomba Review Followup

nospam@example.com (Kevin Keegan) — Sun, 22 May 2005 20:28:09 -0700

Followup:

I made an initial review of my roomba a few months ago. Previously I also detailed my problems and iRobot's solution. I figured that it was time to write a more thorough review with photos. Below you will find a more detailed review with some up close photos of the machine and what it picks up off the floor.

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New Roomba ... Lots of cheering

nospam@example.com (Kevin Keegan) — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:30:00 -0700

Well after two and a half weeks without my roomba, it is back. iRobot was very accurate in their 2-3 week assement for turn around on a replacement vacuum. The new vac came in a non descript beige box. The only thing it did not have was a battery. I plugged the old battery in and viola everything is running great again. I will let you know if I have any more problems with the second vac. If you read my last post regarding how my roomba broke you will understand that I do not think that the failure was entirely iRobot's fault.

Roomba brush gaurd hack

nospam@example.com (Kevin Keegan) — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:01:39 -0700

So as you know I had a problem with my Roomba recently and as part of iRobots replacement policy you have to mail back your brush guard. I guess this is their way of trying to keep replaced units out of circulation, since the Roomba will not function without its brush guard. I have become restless without my Roomba and I had read at RoombaReview a previous report for how to create a replacement brush guard for the roomba red and decided to create a new one for my Discovery. Turns out that after I created my masterpiece I found someone else that had done the exact same thing but posted it before me. Darn it, check it out here.

Roomba Problems

nospam@example.com (Kevin Keegan) — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:35:26 -0800

I noticed the other day that my roomba was not picking up as much debris as it had in the past. After a little inspection I noticed that the main brushes were not always turning. It seemed that they had a problem starting but if I would nudge them with my fingers they would run fine until they stopped for some reason and then again they would not start again.

Now I may have actually caused this problem, because a few days earlier the machine got stuck under a low coffee table and it pressed down on the machine and may have caused the motor to burn out. But I have a cat and the machine really gets a lot of hair wrapped around everything so I thought maybe enough crap had gotten into the gearbox to slow it up.

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My first Roomba Review

nospam@example.com (Kevin Keegan) — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:29:00 -0800

So for Christmas this year I got a Roomba from my girlfriend. Yes I hear all the snickering out there, I did indeed get a vacuum as a gift. I am a clean-oholic with a cat that I am allergic to and a girlfriend who skates out of cleaning by doing school work, so the gift is actually a good idea. Enough background on to the review.

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