Paradise Robotics Forum
Robotic Lawnmowers => Lawnbott => Topic started by: Botman on December 18, 2011, 05:20:05 PM
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So who is going to upgrade their Lawnbott to brushless motors?
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I did and I love it! They upgraded my charger too. The new charger is a much better charger. I have not had my machine back from the brushless upgrade for long, but so far I am very happy with it. I think the brushless motors are what is going to make these robots be worth the cost. Well that and a wonderful dealer like Paradise that goes out her their way for their customers.
Cheers!!
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I went ahead and did the upgrade this year and I am very pleased with the results. The mower with the firmware upgrade seems to be much more efficient at mowing. It spirals much more often and spirals in areas where the previous version never did. It seems to also monitor which zones need to be mowed more often (despite the percent setting). I also noticed there is a setting for it to hop along the wire when returning rather than following the wire, which should reduce the mowing lines along the border, but I haven't tried this yet.
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I agree that the new software is astounding. It mows so much more efficiently now because of the very wide circles. It also comes off the wire in a better way. The new mowing algorithm is also in the Lawnbott LB3210/LB3250.
We have been looking for a good USB to serial cable so people can upgrade on their own (I know many of you already are doing that.) If you have a serial port on your computer (9 pin DIN) you can start now. If not, and you only have USB, please wait for our cable, don't try it yourself and don't trust other dealers. We obtained one cable so far and it turned out it had a counterfeit chip that rendered the motherboard useless. We got totally lucky and were able to get it to recover, but this would not be guaranteed in all cases. The last thing you want to do is destroy your robot's motherboard during a software upgrade.
There are lots of cables out there, but we want to get one for you at a good price and also test one of the type we pick to minimize problems. Many of the cables require drivers to be loaded on the computer so we are also trying to find one that is the least painful (covers the most computers, etc.). Thanks for your patience!
Robotlady