Solar-Powered Pool Cleaner
More and more things are solar powered today, which is good for the environment and even better for your energy bills. This swimming pool cleaner is another example of a tool with a solar bent.
This cleaner automatically floats about the surface of your pool, sucking up leaves, twigs, and other debris you’d usually have to fish out by hand with a skimmer on a pole. Now you can sit back in your lounger and let this little robotic cleaner do all the work.
Two solar panels on its back collect the sun’s energy throughout the day, storing it in rechargeable NiMH batteries. Worried the cleaner will get stuck in a shady corner of your pool and run out of steam? Well, worry not:
“An internal microprocessor monitors the skimmers power and prods it to seek sunny areas of the pool to recharge the batteries. When the unit enters the sunlight, the microprocessor slows the rear paddlewheel, allowing the solar panels to collect optimal energy and, once the batteries are fully charged, the skimmer resumes the cleaning process.”
Pretty smart for a pool cleaner.
Alas, solar cleaners don’t come cheaply, and this one is $500 (hey, at least you won’t spend any money on electricity to power it down the line):
Solar Powered Robotic Pool Skimmer
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Hanna
I think this cleaner is such a cool idea. I have seen it at some home and garden shows and it never ceases to amaze me. And the price is really just right. I have been pricing bottom cleaners and they can run up to $1000 and plus you also have to consider the electrical costs to run them and the pool pump time that is required as well. I really do love this little solar robot and am going to purchase one for the summer months.