Just received my new Dolphin Dynamic

[Tredge]

Plopped it in and let her go.....then I spent 2 hours getting it to go out of the deep end and it never made any progress on the walls.

I must say I'm dissapointed. The reviews made it seem to be an excellent little machine, but I dont see that it will do much better than a manual vaccum and so far takes more time.

If I have to pick it up and move it around with the remote, scrub the walls myself, and clean the machine every cycle.....I dont save any time. Thankfully I have the remote or it'd be next to worthless.

I have 0 obstacles in my pool, not even a ladder. Its a simple rectangular pool, nothing special.

Did I make a $1,000 mistake or am I doing things wrong?

[cruzmisl]

I have a Dolphin Diagnostic (one model below) and it has worked well for 3 years. I gave that one to my Dad and also ordered a Dynamic but haven't received it yet. I know there are different settings on that unit where it can do just the floor, floor and walls etc and can adjust the time. Also you may want to play with the top handle and the floats to see if that helps. I found if mine was on an angle it did the best job. I also found the best cleaning with both floats on the side of the cord.

Don't give up so easily, they really are a great product.
Joe

[Tredge]

Thanks, I tried removing the floats and just adding one but I'll try putting them both on the cord side.

I dont plan to give up.
Maybe my expectations were too high

[cruzmisl]

It took me a bit to get the right combo for my pool but I eventually got it. Try all variations and see what works best. Good luck.

[oliverw]

I just got the Dolphin Dynamic about 2 weeks ago and I felt the same way you do the first time I put it in the water. I set it all up and put it in the water at night and pull it out the next morning and I too was not impressed. It missed lots of debri all over the floor of the pool and I was ready to return it, but thought to give it another try. The next time I put it in, it did a great job and got almost everything. The filter bag showed that it was working much better. I put it in again last night and will see what kind of job it did this time, I still have time to return it if I feel it's not living up to it's cost. I'll post what I find tonight.

oliverw

[troykristoffer]

I just got my Dolphin Diagnostic too, and the first time I ran it, I supervised it regularly and at first I was convinced there was something wrong, because it would NOT climb the walls, whatsoever. It was going up the slope on the sides barely a couple inches and then reversing and going the other way and it did that for at least 3 hours, so I was very skeptic and thinking I wasted my money. But I pulled it out, inspected it for setting controls and found now... decided...one more try... again, no wall climbing...

Until... I kinda of forgot about it and about 5 hours later, went back and was delighted to find that it was scouring the top edge of my pool!

It seems that climbing the walls is just about the last thing it will do in it's cycle, so maybe if you let it go, it will eventually do its job. Of course it *could* be defective, but theres my experience.