iGarden M1 Pro Max 100 Review: A Sports Car for Your Pool Leave a comment

iGarden’s claims of offering 10 hours of working time in floor-only mode have been correct in my testing; nevertheless, I achieved solely about seven hours of operation within the extra power-intensive full protection mode. That’s nonetheless loads of juice for 2 or three full cleanings earlier than a recharge is required. Formally, iGarden specs the robotic to scrub swimming pools of as much as 1,274 sq. toes in dimension.

I used to be much less enamored with the cleanup course of after operations have been full, and never simply because the robotic should be retrieved with a pole as an alternative of coming to the floor when finished. The filter basket is a lot giant, however it could actually solely be accessed by a comparatively small hatch. It’s powerful to get all of the particles out by this hatch by hosing it down, significantly because the form of the basket features a type of shelf on the within, the place particles is each onerous to succeed in and onerous to see. A extra open basket design or a bigger hatch can be an enormous assist come cleanup time.

The essential field is designed with a fine-mesh filter on all sides, however this may be enhanced with a reusable second filter, included within the field, that snaps onto the surface of the basket. This filter has a finer mesh depend than the filter on the basket itself, however regardless of that, most customers most likely received’t want it. I didn’t discover it made a lot of a distinction in my assessments, however these going through issues with a lot of fine-grained grime and sand might discover it useful.

A Large Value Lower

At $1,599, iGarden has aggressively priced this robotic, knocking $1,000 off the worth of final yr’s Okay Professional 150 whereas holding efficiency kind of the identical. That makes this a way more engaging purchase than the Okay collection, and whereas it’s nonetheless a bit on the excessive aspect, it’s now roughly in keeping with quite a few different top-shelf robots available on the market. For those who don’t thoughts getting a little bit moist when it comes time to retrieve and clear out the robotic, it must be a really robust candidate for the job as your robotic pool man.