My Dolphin: Now I'm getting rid of it

[Rescue30]

CarlD,
I'm on my third season with the BD remote, it is an awesome machine.It cleans my 25 X40 , 30K gallon vinyl pool in an hour .I've never had the cord eaten by the machine , but I do have some tangling of the cord , which happened as well with the Dolphin Dynamic I tested in the whole 3 days I tried it !! .AS far as the Power supply being stored under the machine, I agree while it's not the optimum place for it , I've never had a failure with it, in fact i left it out this past winter by the pool , uncovered , and just got a drop of rust by the two screws holding the connector where the cord goes.The machine goes around the pool much quickler than the Dolphins , and the factr that randomly they turn and go in a total opposite direction, really gets the pool clean, it doesn't miss a spot.As far as climbing the walls , mine was the first year model of the BD remote, it only goes up the wall on the 7th time it hits it, it WILL START to go up the wall/floor angle, realize it's on a wall and come right down, if you hit the "program" button on the remote , then it climbs each time it hits the wall.

[CarlD]

Thanks, Rescue, but I did find that out. The wall-climbing program is in the manual, but the 7th go I got from the svc ctr.

I don't see anyway but pulling out the ladder each time.

I do have to say it got the pool sparkling. I was swimming laps this AM and the water was cleaner than it's ever been. They tell me I can use my extra Dolphin bags in it two. They are multiple layered and if they work, I suspect they'll catch more stuff.

[cleancloths]

My understanding is that the Blue Diamond (and Pearl) use a bag that is rated at 2 microns while the Dolphin has a 20 microns bag. Thus, the water is going to look much cleaner with the BD/BP as many tiny particles that scatter light are being removed with the BD/BP.

[CarlD]

My understanding is that the Blue Diamond (and Pearl) use a bag that is rated at 2 microns while the Dolphin has a 20 microns bag. Thus, the water is going to look much cleaner with the BD/BP as many tiny particles that scatter light are being removed with the BD/BP.

Hard to believe. The BD bag is a thin, single layer. The Dolphin bag is triple layered.

[brent.roberts]

I've been pretty amazed at the fine stuff the Dophin bag picks up. Just a brown haze in the cloth.

If I'd had this last year I likley would not have changed the sand filter for a DE.

[brent.roberts]

Just so everyone else following this thread knows. I send a message to Maytronics in Isreal directly and challenged them to join this discussion.

While they may be monitoring it, they did not respond to me and have not made any comment here.

That was about a week ago.

Pretty poor.

[cleancloths]

The thickness of the bag has very little to do with the micron rating. You can have paper thin filters with very low ratings while a thick burlap bag would have a very high micron rating. Maytronics states that they filter down to 20 microns will the Blue Diamond and Blue Pearl claim filtration down to 2 microns.

[CarlD]

Just so everyone else following this thread knows. I send a message to Maytronics in Isreal directly and challenged them to join this discussion.

While they may be monitoring it, they did not respond to me and have not made any comment here.

That was about a week ago.

Pretty poor.

Just to be fair to Maytronics: They HAVE been in touch with me, I sent them this link, and they tried and were UNABLE to access the thread.

I sent them a text ver of the thread up through yesterday morning.

Brent, I think they should have responded to your eMail, but if you don't have an actual repair issue with Smart Pool you can reference, I can understand it being low priority with them.

Or else they felt that since they were in touch with me, that was all that was needed. I don't know--I do not know what they were thinking but they ASSURE me they are all over Smart Pool like stink on a skunk.