Hayward Phantom

[waterbear]

I do know the early units did have some problems and they redesigned the hoses. Don't know if it fixed the problems or not....haven't heard anything about them one way or the other since. We sell them where I work but no one has bought one. It seems that Haywards most popular cleaner where I work is the suction side Navigator.

We have sold several of the Baracuda Mars pressure side cleaners and have gotten favorable feedback on them, expecially in regards to climbing and dealing with steps. I have not seen one in action myself so I can't comment as to how effective it really is. I personally still favor the Polaris units.

[Rescue30]

I have the Hayward Phantom.It is in it's second season.it is an awesome cleaner ! I also own a Blue diamond remote robot cleaner , which only gois in the pool once a week , the Phantom gets thrown in every third day.I lost my main drain, a few years back and they wanted $10K to fix it , so I opted for a robot cleaner , the robot just takes a lot of time to clean the bag and you get all wet.The Phantom is so easy to connect/disconnect .it has 3 modes :
top skim only, bottom clean only, auto mode which does 13 minutes on the bottom and then 7 minutes on top.i have owned alot of cleaners in the past , Polaris 380,360,340, Barracuda G3, Letro legend , The Phantom is by far the best of all pressure driven cleaners out there in my humble opinion.You will need a booster pump on one of your return lines for it to work.