2024 the best pool cleaner review
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Cleaning made convenient. Easy-to-use, light weight in-ground robotic pool cleaner with a weekly scheduler so you can set your Dolphin to automatically clean for you- every day, every other day, or every 3rd day.
Cleans with ease. Anti-tangling swivel technology allows the Quantum to move freely around large residential pools up to 50 feet for an uninterrupted hassle-free clean.
Hugs and scrubs your pool’s walls. PowerStream mobility provides a constant grip on vertical surfaces for intense wall and waterline scrubbing , stuck-on-dirt for an exceptionally clean swimming pool.
Fine and ultra-fine filters for superior filtration. Extra-large top loading filter basket traps leaves, dirt and even small debris you can’t see, leaving your pool sparkling clean in a quick 2 hours
Save Energy with Every Pool Cleaning. 8X more energy efficient than pressure and suction cleaners! No hoses or booster pump required. Backed by a 2 year quality assurance.
Reviewer: acrisis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: After 11 years and six other robots, this is the one!
Review: Honest review, not sponsored, etc: this is our best robot yet!The house we purchased 12 years ago, came with a large in ground pool. We're also surrounded by pine trees, birches, maples, oaks, ... . Cleaning manually with a suction hose, wasting so much time, water and chemicals was not an option for me. Thus started the path with robotic cleaners. One particular brand we had 4 failures between motors and control boxes in 10 years; one dolphin robot would not climb walls, another one died and last year, in 2021, we actually ended up with TWO robots. An aquabot ( only really cleans floors despite saying it does walls ) and this mid range Dolphin Quantum.This Dolphin Quantum is hands down our best robot yet.I does not have all the bells and whistles, like remote control, wifi, fancy display ... but forget all that crap. Had it. Doesn't work ... or the robot dies and then you wasted an extra $250 $500 on fancy features you barely use.This robot ticks all the boxes for me:+ extra large volume cleaning basket+ two large soft scrubbing brushes (many others just have 1)+ basket is easy to install, remove, open and clean out+ no bags to clean for 5 - 10 minutes, that may blow off their tray (smart pool brand robots issue) ... just a simple sturdy rigid box with a full bottom that opens up+ dead simple control box: power and pick 1 2 or 3 (for repeat cycle in n days)+ cleans the floor, inside corners between floor and walls as well as the vertical walls+ does a fabulous job cleaning around the water line and even moves sideways across the waterline (see video clip)+ swivel cord = YES (see photo, video and note below)+ has not gotten stuck on our steps into the pool+ has not gotten stuck on our floor drain+ fine and ultra fine filters are super easy to swap outIgnore the review for this robot that says there's no swivel. The white thing in that customer's picture is the swivel! As advertised. Don't know how they missed it. It works and is quite standard across the industry.Now there's a trick to having the swivel work for you - which I learned the hard way with our previous brand robot that we had 4 of, and they were notorious for tangling:>>> only give the robot as much cord as it needs!Put the robot in the water with next to no cord, get the whole cord stretched out on the deck, leave excess cord on the deck, and tuck away whatever amount of cord it does not need, then plug it in.If you have a 15x30 20x40 pool and chuck the robot in with all the cord, it may / will tangle. However if you have a 40 ft long pool and and you give it about 45-50 feet, it will untangle and swivel when it goes across to the deep end on other side of the pool.Has ours tangled in the past year? Minimally so. Sometimes, they just want to run in a circle a bit after they've taken a lot of cord into the pool, and in a year's time, two summer seasons, it's had a few minor issues with the cord. But no cord was tightly damaged and Nothing like when you don't have a swivel or when you give it unlimited cord.This thing has been a beast, with the standard (non pleated) filter, filling up its basket with leaves, seeds, ... it does a solid job on walls with its two scrubbers against algae, it comes up out of the water with the front and then scrubs the wall sideways for a bit. Absolutely fabulous.Now this year, we did end up with some water quality issues and excess algae. After fixing the water for phosphates, instead of doing the vacuuming with a suction brush on waste as they said at the pool store ... don't use a robot, you must hand vacuum to waste ... it was taking way too much time. So, I figured I'd let the robot do it anyhow. I swapped in the extra fine pleated filters and sent the robot on its way. And it was doing great! It sucks up the phosphate that fell to the bottom overnight easy peasy. Within two days, some backwashing, the robot running around, sucking up the dropped material on the floor, our pool is looking a ton better and should be back to pristine condition in a couple days.This is not an inexpensive robot, you can buy a lot cheaper, but for our in ground vinyl pool, with a lot of floor and surface area, tons of cleanup in the fall; it is a very solid performer and gets my two thumbs up.
Reviewer: Jim
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very expensive, very, very disappointing!
Review: Summary:- randomly stops running, sometimes only a few minutes after starting. 11 months of use and only runs for less than one minute. It is now basically completely useless- line twists and keeps vacuum from going all around the pool- scrubbing mechanism is not good enough to not have to scrub manually- When the line isn't tangled and the vacuum decides to run for more than an hour, it did do a good job cleaning leaves. But those two things happening at the same time was rare.The biggest problem is that the dang thing turns off early very frequently. I started noticing it a few months after I bought it, but didn't think anything of it. I thought it might have a shutoff after it senses it cleaned the whole pool. It kept on getting worse, until now it will only be on for less than a minute. So it is essentially a piece of garbage, very expensive garbage. I have reached out to customer service and am waiting for a response. Hopefully the customer service can fix it for free, I would really love to just get my money back, but I doubt that is going to happen. Even if they do fix it, it is still quite an inconvenience that you would expect from a much cheaper product.The 'anti-tangle technology' is a fabrication. From day one the hose has been tangling. My whole pool can basically never get cleaned because the line twists and the vacuum doesn't have enough strength to pull it out. I read online that you can stretch it out and leave it in the sun and it will lose the twist. I did that, and it worked for one day before it was twisted again. So I guess I'd have to do that every single day for it to clean better. At this point, just using a traditional pool cleaner that plugs into the wall sound about 1000 times easier.The scrubbing kind of works. It isn't a substitute for you doing it yourself though, which was a major disappointment. You have to scrub less frequently, but make no mistake, you'll have to be out there scrubbing at some point, for sure.I would 100% recommend not getting this. A poolside cleaner for half the price you make you twice as happy. I'm living with a lot of regret right now.
Reviewer: Marisol
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Quise dar de alta mi garantÃa y no coincide el número de serie la compañÃa nunca me responde los mensajes no les recomendó comprar con ellos mi robot está descompuesto y solo tiene 4 meses y no puedo aplicar la garantÃa
Reviewer: Laurence Fourdrignier
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: very easy to use, unbelievable ability at climbing the sides of the pool. After years of cleaning the pool manually, I now wish I had invested in a dolphin years ago. Highly recommend it!
Reviewer: Diana L.
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Como pueden ver el producto no filtra absolutamente nada, la canastilla de particulas pequeñas es un chiste y al tratar de contactar al vendedor solo te dice que no dan asesoria a otros paises aunque si tienen expertos que podrÃan hacerte una video llamada al parecer es demasiado paara ellos, les hemos enviado las fotos para más información pero no han dado ninguna respuesta a un producto muy caro
Reviewer: Emmag
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This item is unusable out of the box. No power flows to the supply box.There seems to be nowhere to contact the seller.
Reviewer: Ziomara Guadalupe De La Rosa Cantu
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Tiene buen funcionamiento pero tarda mucho en limpiar la alberca. No se tarda el tiempo que mencionan en la descripción, tarda más
Customers say
Customers like the cleaning ability and ease of use of the pool vacuum. They mention it does a good job picking up dirt and leaves, and is easy to set up. However, some customers have reported that the durability is poor, and the cord tangles. Opinions differ on its functionality, value for money, and climbing capability.
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