Husqvarna 265ACX (or 260ACX) Automower.

[Perry]

Best played in a smaller browser tab/window area.
to avoid too much pixelation distortion.

http://www.spiller.kiwi.nz/coxy/coxy_video_01.avi
http://www.spiller.kiwi.nz/coxy/coxy_video_02.avi
http://www.spiller.kiwi.nz/coxy/coxy_video_03.avi

Although there's not much background to help get any
scale relativity from, those video clips may give you
some idea of size. However, the 265ACX is quite a lot
bigger than most initial indications conveyed to me.
A lot of that size is the plastic skirt, though. I.e. it's
not too heavy to lift and cart around.

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

Best played in a smaller browser tab/window area.
to avoid too much pixelation distortion.

http://www.spiller.kiwi.nz/coxy/coxy_video_01.avi
http://www.spiller.kiwi.nz/coxy/coxy_video_02.avi
http://www.spiller.kiwi.nz/coxy/coxy_video_03.avi

Although there's not much background to help get any
scale relativity from, those video clips may give you
some idea of size. However, the 265ACX is quite a lot
bigger than most initial indications conveyed to me.
A lot of that size is the plastic skirt, though. I.e. it's
not too heavy to lift and cart around.

Nice! Yeah they are bigger than I always thought they were. What confused me is why they sense a tree, go around it, and then head off in a random direction. See the below snapshots from your one video:

 

[Perry]

I suspect the technology is similar to those proximity warning
sensors built into many car fenders (bumpers) these days.

Coxy sometimes does not 'see' objects and hits them at 'cruising' speed. Ordinarily,
when the sensor detects an object (moving or stationary) it cuts back to half speed,
to reduce collision impact.

According to the manual, five consecutive full speed impacts will make Coxy stop and
display an error message that goes something like: clean the sensors, idiot!

Being ultra sound, those sensors work at night, too. There's some quite clever program-
ming in its micro-processor, that's for sure.

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

Yeah that makes sense. :smile:

 

[Perry]

I've changed the video formats to MP4, so the post
above now has dud links.
http://www.spiller.kiwi.nz/coxy/coxy_video_01.mp4
http://www.spiller.kiwi.nz/coxy/coxy_video_02.mp4
http://www.spiller.kiwi.nz/coxy/coxy_video_03.mp4

Plus here's an extra:
http://www.spiller.kiwi.nz/coxy/coxy_video_04.mp4

 

[Perry]

Any other automower blades buyers reading this thread?
What units do you buy them in?
What's the cost per pack or per unit of a blade & pivot screw?

 

[chobbs1957]

Maybe one day a commercial yard service can buy a half dozen of these, drop them out along his route, then come back and get paid as he picks them up. :confused2:

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

Maybe one day a commercial yard service can buy a half dozen of these, drop them out along his route, then come back and get paid as he picks them up. :confused2:

This came across my mind yesterday!!

 

[Perry]

I've pondered the idea, but the set-up labour
and materials cost would be significant. Some
sort of contract would be needed.

Then there's the costs of recovering all of the
set-up, when the contract is over or the place
is sold, or the like.

But maybe an avenue exists to provide robot
mowers on a lease, that includes design set-
up, installation and programming, maintenance,
blade supply and changes, etc? All for one low
monthly payment - after a deposit is received
and a contract is signed - of course.
:laughing:

 

[Perry]

Record Keeping

Inevitably, there will be tweaking of the various settings on an automower set-up.
And I do mean more than once, as adjustments are tested by observing the way
in which the automower functions. Based on recent experience: WRITE IT DOWN!

Keep a record of any settings that are changed; and amend them if any further
changes are made.

For unknown reasons, the corridor width settings I'd tweaked to the optimum, got
wiped. I've changed them a couple of times in an effort to get them back to what
I'd settled on as the ideal, weeks ago.

It's a right pain having to go through that process, a second time. Also . . .

One of the options is to restore factory defaults. I suppose that's the automower
equivalent of [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Delete] on a computer. It could well be necessary to
do that if the on-board micro-processor gets its digits in a tangle. Having all the
settings in writing would make the exercise of restoring the installation settings
a lot less painful, I suspect.

I'd almost put my shirt on it.