u/Icy-Physics-401

Our family lives in a two-floor townhouse that’s about 1,600 sq ft total (800 each). There is a kitchen with

anti-slip tiles, bedrooms with wooden floors, and two long synthetic fiber rugs. Since being pregnant,

cleaning has become even more of a hassle. I can't manage to drag my old stick vacuum around and

carrying it up and down stairs now. Therefore, we'd like to switch to a smarter and easy solution, perhaps

a robot vacuum. My husband has watched a few product videos, and the way they handle things on their

own, like planning routes, adjusting power and water, and cleaning themselves, does make me interested.

Do you think a robot vacuum would help for my situation? I’d be more appreciate it if you could share your

thoughts or suggest something fit.

My budget is $900, and I'd just like something not much maintenance required, smart and efficient. All

relevant opinions are welcome

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u/Icy-Physics-401 — 8 days ago

My new place has a small pool. I'm planning to hire someone to get it properly cleaned first, and then get

a pool cleaning robot for routine maintenance. I have an Ecovacs robot vacuum, so I’m kind of considering their newer pool robot Ultramarine as well, that way everything stays in the same app. From

what I understand, I just drop it in, let it do its thing, and then the main upkeep is charging it and emptying

the filter. Is it really that simple, or is there more I should know? Anything I should watch out for when

using a pool robot?

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u/Icy-Physics-401 — 8 days ago

Been using this little thing for a while now. Just stick the machine onto the window, it suctions itself on and

starts cleaning. Honestly forgot I've had it this long, lol. You can see in the video that it gets pretty close to

the edges and leaves almost no gap on the sides.

u/Icy-Physics-401 — 8 days ago

Anti-islanding is one of those things that makes total sense once you understand it but nobody really explained it to me when I got my 6.5kw enphase system put in two years ago. Grid drops, inverters shut off, panels stop producing. Code requirement, not a bug, but also not something the sales guy brought up when I was signing.

I've been wanting to fix this for a while without having to swap out the microinverters or add a whole separate critical loads panel. Went with an Anker E10 setup (2 packs + power dock) last month because the dock handles grid isolation on its own and the enphase side doesn't need any changes. Just AC couples through and keeps running when the dock is in island mode.

Had a 5 hour outage a couple weeks back. Checked the app and the panels were feeding the battery the whole time. That's really all I wanted:)

u/Icy-Physics-401 — 18 days ago