The question is simple: Why talk about a pool cleaning robot when the season is over? And the answer is also simple: because, hopefully, we use the pool four months a year. To avoid wasting water and to extend the season in the right temperature moments, it is best to continue frequent maintenance. With this we reduce hours in the first set -up. And, if all this does a robot, better yet.
That is why it is the ideal reason for recommending the Z1 Pro, the pool cleaner robot developed by Dreame, the manufacturer of vacuum robots. That shows us that “caste comes to the greyhound”, or what is the same: He carries clean And, all this, in an underwater environment.
The z1 pro is a wireless robot that Use multiple sensors to map and navigate precisely through the pool. It offers exceptional cleaning performance and is easy to get out of the water, put it to “play” and let it do its own: cleaning. And the truth is that it does very well.
I must confess that, as with mobile phones, it is afraid to put a robot underwater, even if the manufacturer’s instructions affirm, confirm and promise that there is no problem. Moreover, which is your function. The z1 pro It is designed for swimming pools in all shapes and up to 200 square metersis the size of a house vacuum cleaner (slightly larger, the truth) and its weight brushes the 12 kilos.
It has front and rear brushes to loosen and sweep the waste. Your two bomb engines They provide 30,000 liters per hour of suctionalmost twice the competition. The z1 pro is wireless and uses a rechargeable battery that gives it Up to 3 hours of continuous cleaning. Enough for a complete cleaning cycle of a pool of 200 square meters and about 2 meters deep depth throughout the surface.
Requires 4 hours for a complete recharge (also improving competition: Polaris Freedom Plus, offers 2.5 hours of battery and requires 5 hours to charge). Of course, it does not include a transport system to take another site (something that can be an obstacle taking into account its more than 11 kilos) or loading station, it is fed with a magnetic load adapter and a power supply.
When we see it it is obvious that we are facing A cross of a tank and a Mars Rover: Cathers on footwear and sensors throughout the surface. The front of the robot houses a sensor fusion module that offers ultrasound, flight time (TOF) and infrared detection. It works with Dreame’s poolsense technology to provide a precise mapping and avoid obstacles, very similar to the cartography ability that their vacuum robots have.
On the left side, there is another integrated fusion module, along with an independent infrared sensor. The top of the robot has an ASA to facilitate its transport, a magnetic load port, a lid that opens to access the filter basket compartment, two water outlets, an LED indicator strip and an integrated control panel.
The control panel is quite informative. It has a light receiver to use with the control (included) and that can be used from outside the water, which is a huge advantage. This command uses light communication technology to allow robot control while underwater and includes a four directions for navigation and localized cleaningand buttons for pause/resume, ignition and recovery.
In total, the Z1 Pro has five cleaning modes. The standard mode first cleanses the bottom of the pool, then the walls and, finally, the flotation line. Individual modes only clean the walls, background and flotation line. The complete mode is the same as the standard mode, but continues to work until the battery is exhausted. If looking at the corteped robots or vacuum cleaners is an addiction, seeing the z1 pro climbing the walls underwater becomes a vice.
The filter basket is easy to remove and can be cleaned with a garden hose without having to play any waste and in just minutes. The most cumbersome, so to speak, is Wait for you to load your task, in the rest of the sections (programming, cleaning, tuning and mapping the area), time is barely consumed.
The Z1 Pro has Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz) and integrated Bluetooth, and works with the mobile application DREame for Android and iOS devices. Once under water you don’t have to be scared if we can no longer see it in the app: Like any robot that operates under water, loses communication with the phone and only the command allows us to give orders.
There are also a set of experimental adjustments of the Laboratory mode that allow you to introduce specific measures of the wall height; activate cleaning in extreme conditionsallowing the robot to adapt to complex soil patterns; Improve the cleaning of shallow areas and avoid obstacles or create alternative cleaning routes.
Something that I would have liked to have in the application is the water temperature or some alert of dirty filters, as in the vacuum robots. Depending on the way we select, Al Z1 Pro takes 2 hours to clean the entire pool (background, walls and flotation line), 1 hour and 15 minutes for the walls and 1 hour and 10 minutes to scrub the flotation line.
Verdict: I was pleasantly surprised that putting it every two days was enough to take the leaves settled on the ground and that any outbound water sketch disappeared. It must be clarified that it is a pool cleaning robot, not the water, it must continue to be treated to avoid the proliferation of organisms, but the cleaning of the pool greatly reduces this. By € 1099, it is worth lengthening the pool season for years, no doubt.