Roomba Battery Life

[dskeeles]

Hi,

How is anyone with a Roomba finding their battery life? I've just
bought a new-gen Roomba Sage - charged it 7-8 hours the first time
round, but am only finding it cleans for about 25-30 minutes before
giving a low battery warning. I've tried this 3 times now.

It's on hard floors, and I've cleaned the moving parts, so it shouldn't
be having to work too hard....


Damian

[Robert Green]

Does the manual give any estimate of battery life? 25 minutes is about the
same time my B&D upright battery vacuum runs for so I assume that's par for
the course.

--
Bobby G.


"dskeeles" <damoskeet-goog@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> How is anyone with a Roomba finding their battery life? I've just
> bought a new-gen Roomba Sage - charged it 7-8 hours the first time
> round, but am only finding it cleans for about 25-30 minutes before
> giving a low battery warning. I've tried this 3 times now.
>
> It's on hard floors, and I've cleaned the moving parts, so it shouldn't
> be having to work too hard....
>
>
> Damian
>

[Byron Hynes]

We get much longer than that on hard floors with ours. Call them.

> Hi,
>
> How is anyone with a Roomba finding their battery life? I've just
> bought a new-gen Roomba Sage - charged it 7-8 hours the first time
> round, but am only finding it cleans for about 25-30 minutes before
> giving a low battery warning. I've tried this 3 times now.
>
> It's on hard floors, and I've cleaned the moving parts, so it
> shouldn't be having to work too hard....
>
> Damian
>

[none]

Specs say up to 2 hours cleaning time.

Mine goes for at least an hour and a half on carpet.

Sounds like a dud battery (btw, the Sage is not a new gen Roomba, Sage is
now the previous generation, they released a Roomba 2.1 with new features,
so far the only Roomba with the new hardware is the Roomba Scheduler and a
special Roomba sold by QVC - however you can upgrade the software (if yours
already doesn't have the new software, but it still doesn't include the
hardware upgrades).


"dskeeles" <damoskeet-goog@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1144405289.100221.158090@t31g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
> Hi,
>
> How is anyone with a Roomba finding their battery life? I've just
> bought a new-gen Roomba Sage - charged it 7-8 hours the first time
> round, but am only finding it cleans for about 25-30 minutes before
> giving a low battery warning. I've tried this 3 times now.
>
> It's on hard floors, and I've cleaned the moving parts, so it shouldn't
> be having to work too hard....
>
>
> Damian
>



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[dskeeles]

Thanks!

Do you have the older battery, or the new APS battery?

I bought on ebay as "New" - and it did seem new. It could have been a
reconditioned battery, I guess. I'll speak to them.


Damian

[dskeeles]

I gave the Roomba it's best chance yesterday; charged it up for a full
3-days beforehand (as suggested by the support site), and then left it
running around a house on 'Clean' mode until it ran out of power.
Although the battery light turned red after only 30 minutes or so, it
lasted 1hr10 minutes in total - which still isn't ideal, but more than
enough for my needs, and not bad enough to return it. I suspect maybe
it'll get better with some running in, but we'll see.

Cheers,


Damian

[none]

iRobot's customer support is superb, if you have any problems you should
contact them. They'll take care of whatever problem you're having very
quickly and easily.

"dskeeles" <damoskeet-goog@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I gave the Roomba it's best chance yesterday; charged it up for a full
> 3-days beforehand (as suggested by the support site), and then left it
> running around a house on 'Clean' mode until it ran out of power.
> Although the battery light turned red after only 30 minutes or so, it
> lasted 1hr10 minutes in total - which still isn't ideal, but more than
> enough for my needs, and not bad enough to return it. I suspect maybe
> it'll get better with some running in, but we'll see.



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