Большое спасибо. Купил первую линейку Polaris, отработал 5 лет. Никаких проблем. Сломался провод. Разобрал его, все детали были залиты в плотный пластик, разбору не подлежал. Купил новый провод, он отработал всего год и появились проблемы, error 10. Думал покупать новый, но спасибо Вашему видео, разобрал и отремонтировал. Сейчас на Polaris, заменил все пластиковые детали, колеса, шестеренки, все продается на Amazon, недорого, пришлось купить новый мотор 560 долларов, сэкономил деньги на проводе, благодаря Вам. Еще раз большое спасибо.
Thanks for the video. I was getting Error 10 occasionally and then eventually it would just say Error 10 all of the time and the robot would not work. I took the swivel a part and found a bit of corrosion that was connecting two of the round circle circuitry. Brushed the corrosion away and that fixed my issue. Now my robot is fully functional and saved me from buying a $500 replacement cable. Thanks again!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video! I followed all the steps and my unit is now functioning. It was fun downloading the files and sending them off to have the board made. It was a very rewarding experience.
This was helpful, though the only mis-step (apart from pulling the wires out of the swivel) is trying to grip the threaded plastic to remove the nut. If you look at the other end of the swivel, you will see the internal sleeve also has two indents that you can use to hold with the long nose pliers to screw or unscrew the nut... Thanks for sharing your experience - turned out my cable is fine, so now looking at the motor board, as there appears to have been some small water ingress.
I purchased my Polaris cleaner about two years ago. Got an Error 10 today which wouldn't clear, so I figured I'd check out the slip ring first. Apparently, the cable design has been changed. I was expecting a standard slip ring. Mine had an 1/8" TRS headphone jack and plug instead of a slip ring. The slip ring was fine, and my issue ended up being some sort of buildup on the control board caused by water leaking past a bad motor compartment seal.
Thank you for the video. What should the electrical meter checks be? I checked continuity for the three wires with the corresponding spot on the back side of the PCB. It showed continuity no matter which wire and back location selected. Is this correct? My PCB wasn't the reason for the disassymbly, it was the wire insulation seperated at the junction entering the robot. I had to put a heat shrinking sleeve over it. Thanks
Hi my name is Alex thanks your video is very good . I have slightly newer vrx iq plus Polaris 4WD when I open my swivel it is different construction than your model one side is a pin connector like older head-cellphones and other side is the hole so it like mother and father connectors so it doesn’t have that part (round plate) is you replace and it was wett inside also I am dried out and then I decided to check wires with multimeter since this unit 4WD it has 2 plugs to motor I thought the test inch plug off 3 wires individually all 3 wires have good test no breaks on them ,but the second plug has nothing in all three wires.The question is something wrong with this second plug which three wires it has zero reading assuming I do that test on the shorter part of the unit because I removed this pin from swivel whit rest of the larger parts of cable?Thanks Alex
Is the swivel really necessary? In reality couldn't I just wire it together inside the swivel housing and make the swivel stationary? Mine gives an error 10 code on the power supply when not plugged into or connected to the cleaner, is that because it isn't making a full loop connection?
Great video thank you! Do you know a company I can send the file to to make the slip ring PCB? Also I noticed my pins corroded, any company you might recommend to buy the pins(connectors) from?
Bonjour Kevin , j'habite en France et j'ai un robot Zodiac ,Mon Probleme c'est le swivel qui prend l'eau, j'ai fait une tentative pour le réparer mais ca na pas fonctionné et a force de le demonter plusieur fois la il faut le remplacer. est ce que toi tu saurais sin on peut trouver un revendeur ou une personne qui vend des swivel neuf. un grand merci a toi.
First thanks for the video. I open the unit and noticed it was wet. It seems like they changed the design. I have a slight different design. My question what is the best thing to use to seal the unit and prevent water from going through
I would use an O-ring made of Viton or Buna: www.mcmaster.com/content/o-rings You will need to measure the o-rings in your swivel unit and replace them with the correct size. Good luck!
I think the swivel unit helps, but how much is a matter of opinion. Most other pool cleaners of this type include one. I think the Dolphin brand provides a superior cable and swivel unit that is less prone to tangling. Please let me know your experience if you decide to remove the swivel unit.
@@simonlapointe3111 I would cover the individual solder joints with shrink tube. Then coat all the joints together with a high strength epoxy, and put another shrink over the epoxy after it solidify. The key is to make sure the epoxy makes things water tight.
@@kevinfundarek5294 thanks, appreciate. I just found out, that's the vendor said, that this error 10 turns out to be the motor (properler) failure, $600CAD, I give up ! I will have some parts to sell ;) the purchaise dates from 2018. I often use the basket with the finest filter to scoop up silt, maybe that's hard on the motor, don't know.
Oh man, after watching 8 videos of people disassembling every part but what I needed, I finally found you. Thank you so much. Is your new site for the pcbs up? I need to purchase one for my campground.
Hey, glad you found this helpful. I'm no longer selling them - ebay now requires a ss# and IRS 1099 forms, which make that a PIA. I'm going to open source the design. Check back in a day or two for updates in the video and description.
Hi, I am trying to follow your instructions and using oshpark to order the board using your Github zip. They are saying it is missing hte silk screen layer file? Any ideas? Thanks again for all this help!
There is no silk screen layer for this board. A silk screen is generally a layer for white alphanumeric text to call out component ID numbers, which are properly called reference designator (or "ref des" in shop talk). This board doesn't have any components (i.e. resistors, capacitors, etc), so the layer is not needed and hence not included. As long as the board is rendering correctly on oshpark.com's site you will be ok. Many people have ordered the boards with no issues, so unless oshpark recently made operational changes there is no need to worry. Hope this helps you get your bot fixed. Good luck!
@@kevinfundarek5294 Thanks for the clarification and that I can ignore the warning message. Your help on this is much appreciated. Hopefully this solves my issue.
In my case the seal was sound however I did pack lanolin grease (rubber friendly) inside the swivel between seal and the housing holding the swivel board and also external between lock nut and outer swivel housing. Finally, a special thanks to you for supplying the Gerber file for the board. It saved me a lot of time and heaps of $$.
It's only been a month did you already sell out of the PCB? :( Also one of my pogo pins isnt springing back out....any Idea where to get a replacement for that? Good video btw. I took apart the whole thing and put it back together now it seems to be working. Only part I didn't take apart was the part behind the PCB.
Glad to hear it's working. Millmax manufacturing is the largest producer in the world for those types of pins, so there is a good chance it came from them. If you use a caliper to measure the pin dimensions Milmax customer service can probably fine a replacement to sell you. I sold a few PCBs. I'm just not selling on ebay anymore because of some of their policy changes. I'll have more for sale at another site shortly.
Большое спасибо. Купил первую линейку Polaris, отработал 5 лет. Никаких проблем. Сломался провод. Разобрал его, все детали были залиты в плотный пластик, разбору не подлежал. Купил новый провод, он отработал всего год и появились проблемы, error 10. Думал покупать новый, но спасибо Вашему видео, разобрал и отремонтировал. Сейчас на Polaris, заменил все пластиковые детали, колеса, шестеренки, все продается на Amazon, недорого, пришлось купить новый мотор 560 долларов, сэкономил деньги на проводе, благодаря Вам. Еще раз большое спасибо.
Thanks for the video. I was getting Error 10 occasionally and then eventually it would just say Error 10 all of the time and the robot would not work. I took the swivel a part and found a bit of corrosion that was connecting two of the round circle circuitry. Brushed the corrosion away and that fixed my issue. Now my robot is fully functional and saved me from buying a $500 replacement cable. Thanks again!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video! I followed all the steps and my unit is now functioning. It was fun downloading the files and sending them off to have the board made. It was a very rewarding experience.
Glad to hear it
What service did you use to order it?
Wonderful video. You are really skilled at repair work and your video was very clear. Thank you so much
Great Video Thank You. I just ordered the PCB and the process was super simple.
This was helpful, though the only mis-step (apart from pulling the wires out of the swivel) is trying to grip the threaded plastic to remove the nut. If you look at the other end of the swivel, you will see the internal sleeve also has two indents that you can use to hold with the long nose pliers to screw or unscrew the nut... Thanks for sharing your experience - turned out my cable is fine, so now looking at the motor board, as there appears to have been some small water ingress.
I purchased my Polaris cleaner about two years ago. Got an Error 10 today which wouldn't clear, so I figured I'd check out the slip ring first. Apparently, the cable design has been changed. I was expecting a standard slip ring. Mine had an 1/8" TRS headphone jack and plug instead of a slip ring. The slip ring was fine, and my issue ended up being some sort of buildup on the control board caused by water leaking past a bad motor compartment seal.
Thank you for the video. What should the electrical meter checks be? I checked continuity for the three wires with the corresponding spot on the back side of the PCB. It showed continuity no matter which wire and back location selected. Is this correct? My PCB wasn't the reason for the disassymbly, it was the wire insulation seperated at the junction entering the robot. I had to put a heat shrinking sleeve over it.
Thanks
You want to make sure there are no shorts with a meter. There should not be continuity between the ring traces or wires.
Cleared my error 10 by cleaning pins at controller head and unit will work in lift system mode only no movement in cleaning mode ????
Love your work great job I am going to try it on a dolphin cleaner
Hi my name is Alex thanks your video is very good . I have slightly newer vrx iq plus Polaris 4WD when I open my swivel it is different construction than your model one side is a pin connector like older head-cellphones and other side is the hole so it like mother and father connectors so it doesn’t have that part (round plate) is you replace and it was wett inside also I am dried out and then I decided to check wires with multimeter since this unit 4WD it has 2 plugs to motor I thought the test inch plug off 3 wires individually all 3 wires have good test no breaks on them ,but the second plug has nothing in all three wires.The question is something wrong with this second plug which three wires it has zero reading assuming I do that test on the shorter part of the unit because I removed this pin from swivel whit rest of the larger parts of cable?Thanks Alex
Is the swivel really necessary? In reality couldn't I just wire it together inside the swivel housing and make the swivel stationary? Mine gives an error 10 code on the power supply when not plugged into or connected to the cleaner, is that because it isn't making a full loop connection?
All looks back to front using the 'selfie' setting on the phone?
Great video thank you!
Do you know a company I can send the file to to make the slip ring PCB?
Also I noticed my pins corroded, any company you might recommend to buy the pins(connectors) from?
Bonjour Kevin , j'habite en France et j'ai un robot Zodiac ,Mon Probleme c'est le swivel qui prend l'eau, j'ai fait une tentative pour le réparer mais ca na pas fonctionné et a force de le demonter plusieur fois la il faut le remplacer. est ce que toi tu saurais sin on peut trouver un revendeur ou une personne qui vend des swivel neuf. un grand merci a toi.
First thanks for the video. I open the unit and noticed it was wet. It seems like they changed the design. I have a slight different design. My question what is the best thing to use to seal the unit and prevent water from going through
I would use an O-ring made of Viton or Buna:
www.mcmaster.com/content/o-rings
You will need to measure the o-rings in your swivel unit and replace them with the correct size. Good luck!
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Thank you so much. I have maybe a stupid question: is that swivel really necessairy ? I'm just curious how long it will become tangled.
I think the swivel unit helps, but how much is a matter of opinion. Most other pool cleaners of this type include one. I think the Dolphin brand provides a superior cable and swivel unit that is less prone to tangling. Please let me know your experience if you decide to remove the swivel unit.
@@kevinfundarek5294 Do you have a suggestion how to isolate from water in the case I decide to remove it ? Is shrink stuff will be enough ?
@@simonlapointe3111 I would cover the individual solder joints with shrink tube. Then coat all the joints together with a high strength epoxy, and put another shrink over the epoxy after it solidify. The key is to make sure the epoxy makes things water tight.
@@kevinfundarek5294 thanks, appreciate. I just found out, that's the vendor said, that this error 10 turns out to be the motor (properler) failure, $600CAD, I give up ! I will have some parts to sell ;) the purchaise dates from 2018. I often use the basket with the finest filter to scoop up silt, maybe that's hard on the motor, don't know.
Oh man, after watching 8 videos of people disassembling every part but what I needed, I finally found you. Thank you so much. Is your new site for the pcbs up? I need to purchase one for my campground.
Hey, glad you found this helpful. I'm no longer selling them - ebay now requires a ss# and IRS 1099 forms, which make that a PIA. I'm going to open source the design. Check back in a day or two for updates in the video and description.
@@kevinfundarek5294 you are a wonderful human. Thank you again.
Please see the video at ruclips.net/video/-b0UC5WdfXI/видео.html
It shows how to get the pcbs. Thanks
@@kevinfundarek5294 Dude, thank you so much. If you're ever in North Louisiana lmk and I'll get you a beer.
Hi, I am trying to follow your instructions and using oshpark to order the board using your Github zip. They are saying it is missing hte silk screen layer file? Any ideas? Thanks again for all this help!
There is no silk screen layer for this board. A silk screen is generally a layer for white alphanumeric text to call out component ID numbers, which are properly called reference designator (or "ref des" in shop talk). This board doesn't have any components (i.e. resistors, capacitors, etc), so the layer is not needed and hence not included. As long as the board is rendering correctly on oshpark.com's site you will be ok. Many people have ordered the boards with no issues, so unless oshpark recently made operational changes there is no need to worry. Hope this helps you get your bot fixed. Good luck!
@@kevinfundarek5294 Thanks for the clarification and that I can ignore the warning message. Your help on this is much appreciated. Hopefully this solves my issue.
Is it worthwhile replacing the swivel seal,A -18-30-7F, otherwise continued water ingress will continue to cause problems ?
Yes!
Bad seals are no good and must be taken care of. In my particular case the seals were not an issue so I did not do that in the video.
In my case the seal was sound however I did pack lanolin grease (rubber friendly) inside the swivel between seal and the housing holding the swivel board and also external between lock nut and outer swivel housing. Finally, a special thanks to you for supplying the Gerber file for the board. It saved me a lot of time and heaps of $$.
Great video, thank you! Question: how did you know it was the PCB that was the problem?
In my case the copper trace of the pcb ripped off with the wire showing the FR4/fiberglass substrate of the PCB.
Any chance you still have any of these chips left?
@@kennethkenevan4470 No. Follow the video in the comments to order them yourself. It cost about 10 bucks for 3 of them.
Hi Kevin, do you have spare pub available?
I don't have any more pcbs. Please see the links in the comments to have your own fabricated
@@kevinfundarek5294
Thank you for your reply
It's only been a month did you already sell out of the PCB? :( Also one of my pogo pins isnt springing back out....any Idea where to get a replacement for that?
Good video btw. I took apart the whole thing and put it back together now it seems to be working. Only part I didn't take apart was the part behind the PCB.
Glad to hear it's working. Millmax manufacturing is the largest producer in the world for those types of pins, so there is a good chance it came from them. If you use a caliper to measure the pin dimensions Milmax customer service can probably fine a replacement to sell you.
I sold a few PCBs. I'm just not selling on ebay anymore because of some of their policy changes. I'll have more for sale at another site shortly.
@@kevinfundarek5294 hey There. Did you start selling again?
@@calishakes2860 I ended up open sourcing it. Please see the video at ruclips.net/video/-b0UC5WdfXI/видео.html if you need the pcb in this video
Many thanks
Did you make the PCB yourself?
Yes
Well, to be clear, I designed it and sent it out to a pcb house for manufacturing. I pulled the dimensions from the one that had been destroyed
Nice work I tend to just cut the swivel out too many with water ingress.
Personally, I doubt that the swivel is even necessary. Just another failure point that they charge an arm and a leg to replace.
get closer to the mike can't hear you