Just received my new Dolphin Dynamic

[derrikm]

I got a Dolphin Advantage last Christmas. I live in San Antonio and never "close" my pool. I dropped it into the pool on Christmas day and it went to work right away, covering all areas of the bottom, climbing the walls and scrubbing the tile. My pool is 10.000 gal, basically oval, with stairs and a large swimout. The Dolphin even cleaned the two lower stairs and the swimout. I have a cartridge filter and the cloth bag that came with the Dolphin definately has improved water clarity. A few weeks ago I use a few pummace tile stones on some problem areas of my tile. As you might know, those things can leave a pretty good mess in the bottom of the pool. I just dropped the Dolphin in and a few hours later all the gritty mess was picked up.

So far I am 100% happy with it and I've used it about once per week ever since Late December.

DerrikM

[cleancloths]

I too recently bought a dynamic based on some of the positive comments here. It does a good job, but I have caught it repeating the same sections over and over. Also the bag is a pain in the ass to clean compared with my polaris. But it does do a good job.

[rak70]

I just bought the Dolphin Diagnostic and I too at first was not sure if something was wrong with it.

My pool is a double round like a figure 8 with a sharp transition from the deep to shallow end. After the first run I found it only got the deep end and maybe 10% of the shallow. Called technical support and hey told me to place the handle at max position opposite each other and move both of the floats to the side of the power cord. This 'seems' to have worked for me. Put it in last night at 7:00 and this morning it looks like it covered most of the pool 90-95% or so. Technical support also informed me that the Dolphin does not always try to reach the waterline. Sometimes it will only go up partially then quickly reverse, this according to them is normal.

[Tredge]

Update:

Last night I let it run through a cycle and used the non-cloth bag this time...not sure if that makes a difference or not.

I also moved the floats to the cord side of the machine.

It climbed walls this time! It covered roughly 60% of the pool (I can tell because I have a fine sediment I'm hoping to get cleared up)

Moving the location of the power supply seems to impact its coverage area significantly.

So....it looks like it will clean most of the pool, but it might take several cycles to do it.

My expectation was that I could let this thing run once or twice ever 2 weeks and keep a relatively clean pool. This isnt the case.
It makes me wonder about the aquabot turbo claims that it will cover the entire pool in 1 hour.

[cruzmisl]

You have to be careful about cleaners that claim they are done in an hour. Because they move so fast I heard they can stri up the dirt making it more difficult to clean. Is it true? Not sure. It makes sense but could be rumour from a Maytronics employee