The typical LiPo charge cycle is 300-500 before the battery drops below 80%. You are looking at 3-5 years before this happens and you will have lost about 25 min of run time from 120. Considering that it features auto return, the battery is hard to abuse. I don't think it's not the most important question
@@notenoughtech I say it's the most important question because I own a similar robot vacuum and have had to replace the battery after about three years of intermittent (not daily) use. The replacement procedure was very simple and straightforward, however getting the battery shipped from Germany to my country was a quite the challenge. I've looked at some Xiaomi robot vacuums and the guy in the store told me that a battery replacement requires "professional maintenance" and that the battery compartment "purposefully locked down in order to prevent users from getting in there and messing it up". Pure nonsense. It's one thing to quote official, laboratory specifications, an entirely different thing the real world experience. *Without a proper battery replacement option your device effectively turns into e-waste. Better to look into it beforehand.*
Thanks Mat.
I was first 🙂. Nice review, and certainly an option on restrained budget (as most of us have theese days)..
Mat - how did you get the pan shot at 2:14, I can see you're doing other stuff... Looks really great.
Motorised slider :)
Most important question for any vacuum robot: how difficult is it to purhcase and replace the battery??
The typical LiPo charge cycle is 300-500 before the battery drops below 80%. You are looking at 3-5 years before this happens and you will have lost about 25 min of run time from 120. Considering that it features auto return, the battery is hard to abuse. I don't think it's not the most important question
@@notenoughtech I say it's the most important question because I own a similar robot vacuum and have had to replace the battery after about three years of intermittent (not daily) use. The replacement procedure was very simple and straightforward, however getting the battery shipped from Germany to my country was a quite the challenge.
I've looked at some Xiaomi robot vacuums and the guy in the store told me that a battery replacement requires "professional maintenance" and that the battery compartment "purposefully locked down in order to prevent users from getting in there and messing it up". Pure nonsense.
It's one thing to quote official, laboratory specifications, an entirely different thing the real world experience.
*Without a proper battery replacement option your device effectively turns into e-waste. Better to look into it beforehand.*
Hi Mat. You have to get a new mic :-)
Just need to tweak the sound for the new room. Lots of reverb here. Same setup as in old videos.
😂 I was so hoping you'd got a dog
It's close enough 😜