Not too many years ago cleaning the pool was either something you had to pay someone to do or it was a tedious weekend chore with a prominent place on your weekly to do list. Paying someone to clean the pool could be costly. Depending on your location and how much use the pool got, it could take a couple of hours to have the sparkling clean oasis that you desired. An automatic pool cleaner doesn’t have to be paid and it is completely independent.

Chauvier, the inventer of pool cleaners, quickly realised that there was a huge market for taking the hassle out of cleaning swimming pools. He went about inventing a machine that would do the job automatically, efficiently powered by the ordinary operation of the pool’s filter.

Robot pool cleaners increase your quality of life by taking away the tedious task of manually cleaning your pool instead of using traditional cleaning methods that require pool’s filter, hoses, booster pumps, assembly or installation. With pool cleaning robots, you can also benefit from maintenance cost savings of up to 50%.

When you use the best of the pool cleaners available there are no hoses or vacuum poles to mess with, no need for staff to regularly be on your property, and it no longer matters if wind blows dirt in the pool or it just rained after the pool was cleaned. That is because all you have to do is drop a robot pool cleaner into the pool and press a button. That’s it! Nothing is more reliable or capable. Take a look at the extensive selections of robot pool cleaners which are now on sale to determine which one satisfies your needs the most closely.

New pool equipment can make a huge difference in the way your pool performs. Buying your pool equipment all at once can save you money and often increase your warranty. We can help match the right pump, filter, heater and saltwater chlorinator for your pool. You can choose from our popular pre-bundled sets or contact us so we can customize a system for your pool.

A great favourite among many pool owners is the Dolphin Automatic Pool Cleaner is cutting edge technology for cleaning your pool quickly, efficiently, and without effort on your part. Sometimes these claims sound too good to be true but however you look at it pool cleaners are here to stay.

There are Five main types of cleaners according to Wickipedia, classified by the drive mechanism used:

1. Return-side driven — this is where the water outflow being returned to the pool is used for locomotion and debris suction, via the venturi effect.

2. Pressure driven — this is where the water outflow is pressurized using a secondary “booster” pump. This high pressure water is used for locomotion and debris suction, via the venturi effect.

3. Suction-side driven — water being pumped out of the pool via its skimmer or drains is used for locomotion and debris suction.

4. Suction-side floating skimmer — water being pumped out of the pool via its fixed skimmer or drain is pulled through a floating skimmer this method makes use of the surface tensionof the pool to pull floating contaminants to its self.

5. Electronic or robotic — an external electrical power cord is used to drive motors used for locomotion and suction.

Electronic or Robotic

The electronic automated pool cleaner consists on a very simple concept. It has a drive motor a pump and a processor. The pump is drawing the water from the bottom of the robot where the intake valves are located, through the filter and out to the top outlet of the cleaner.

During that process debris and dust that are on the pool surfaces, being vacuumed into the filter section, and particles that are large enough stay inside the robots filter unit until cycle is done and disposal is being removed. The drive motor is made to give the pool robot a directional movement but it does not determine the route.

The drive motor is driving the drive belts and the drive belts are driving the wheels or wheel tubes depending on the model. The processor is made to determine the cycle time of the motors to a specific direction.

The more advanced models have more advanced processors which remember the pool’s size and shape and determines the most efficient route to clean the entire pool.