Expert’s Rating
Pros
- Convenient wi-fi charging dock
- Very efficient at capturing effective specific matter
- Multiple cleansing modes, together with a waterline scrubber
Cons
- Subpar efficiency selecting up bigger particles
- Cleaning the filter basket is a large headache
- Very expensive for the extent of efficiency
Our Verdict
The Aiper Scuba X1 seems to be—and is priced—like a high-end robotic pool cleaner, but it surely’s a weak performer and it’s a bear to wash after a session within the pool.
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Aiper makes some glorious robotic pool cleanrs—akin to its stellar workhorse, the Seagull Pro—but it surely additionally has just a few duds in its arsenal, together with the Seagull Plus and the Scuba S1. With its newest robotic, the Scuba X1, Aiper seems to be to deliver some higher-end options (together with good connectivity) to the lineup. With a road worth of $1,200, it’s one in every of Aiper’s most costly fashions–and it’s obtained the gold trim to show it.
Specifications
The Aiper Scuba X1 doesn’t change the essential design that almost all of Aiper’s full-size robots have adopted for years: Compare its design to the aforementioned Seagull Pro, Seagull Plus, and Scuba S1. The 24-pound Scuba X1 runs on two treads that sandwich two front-mounted cylindrical brushes that do the heavy lifting; moderately, the heavy scrubbing. All black with the aforementioned gold accents, the design is smooth and orca-like. If nothing else it actually seems to be the a part of a $1,000-plus pool robotic.
The MicroMesh system within the Aiper Scuba X1’s particles basket is efficient at capturing fine-grained grime.
The unit features a 7800mAh battery that Aiper says ought to present a working time of three hours and helps a most pool measurement of two,150 sq. ft. A single onboard button allows you to energy up the robotic and select an working mode: “smart mode” (flooring and partitions), ground solely, partitions solely, or waterline solely (the place the robotic strikes vertically alongside the pool wall to clean the tile).
Aiper’s MicroMesh filter is a bit of material that wraps round an inside filter field.
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An extra mode, “scheduled,” is barely obtainable within the Aiper app and instructions the robotic to run for 50 minutes, cleansing the ground solely, as soon as each 48 hours, till its battery dies. A big LED bar on the highest of the robotic signifies when it’s charging (pulsing pink, blue, or inexperienced, relying on cost stage), able to run (stable inexperienced), or completed working (stable pink), together with utilization for numerous error modes.
The unit is charged through a handy docking station that connects to wall energy and eliminates the necessity to manually plug the robotic in after every run. The dock is straightforward to snap collectively out of the field, with none instruments required.
The filter basket requires particular consideration due to its three-piece design. A standard outer basket collects bigger particles, whereas a “MicroMesh ultra-fine filter” picks up smaller morsels of grime and sand. The MicroMesh filter is a bit of material that wraps round an inside filter field, which doesn’t do something besides maintain the MicroMesh in place. All three items are sandwiched collectively when put in; I’ll discuss in regards to the effectiveness of this setup in a bit.
Performance
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As with practically all robotic pool cleaners, the Scuba X1 is activated by putting it on flat floor, powering it up, choosing an working mode, and dropping it into the pool. In the usual good mode, it first cleans the partitions, then strikes to the ground, transferring comparatively methodically and slowly because it sweeps backwards and forwards. The unit does spend a protracted whereas idling on the pool ground at any time when it must make a flip, apparently making an attempt to determine its subsequent transfer, earlier than it will get going once more.
In my pool, I by no means obtained greater than 2.5 hours of working outing of the robotic, in comparison with the 3 hours Aiper specifies. The greater subject, nevertheless, is that the robotic missed fairly a bit of fabric throughout its runs in my pool. On common, it collected solely about 90 p.c of check particles, whether or not natural or artificial, abandoning leaves on the underside of the pool. That’s fairly a poor exhibiting for a robotic on this worth vary, and arguably the unit’s greatest shortcoming.
The Aiper Scuba X1’s charging dock plugs into an outside outlet, so that you don’t want to pull any cords to the robotic pool cleaner itself.
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An in depth second, nevertheless, is cleanup. While the MicroMesh system is efficient at capturing fine-grained grime, it’s a large ache to wash. First, the mesh filter should be indifferent from the inside filter field, which is a problem when it’s dry and an enormous problem when it’s moist and soiled.
Disconnecting the varied clips and tabs that maintain the filter in place is a chore even earlier than you set about cleansing it. A hose doesn’t do the trick; I often wanted to make use of a scrub brush to get the filter principally free from particles, all of which meant a substantial quantity of effort and making fairly a large number as well. I’ve by no means spent a lot time emptying a filter basket, which isn’t what I anticipate from machine on this worth vary.
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Retrieving the bot after its cleansing mission can be a chore: While the robotic can climb partitions, it could’t pull itself out of the pool when quitting time comes, not like some rivals at this worth stage. The Scuba X1 was not less than profitable at docking itself close to the wall when full, however you’ll want to make use of the included hook and a pole to carry it from the water.
Aiper’s cellular app doesn’t do a lot of something that you would be able to’t accomplish simply as simply by pushing buttons on the Scuba X1 itself.
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Aiper’s app is for probably the most half superfluous. After a fast and simple Bluetooth-based setup, you’ll discover that the app can’t actually do something besides select the working mode, which (aside from the scheduled mode) you are able to do through the one button on the unit. The sole extra function is a fundamental log of operational exercise and working time, which is barely of minimal use. As with most robots, the app gained’t hook up with the machine whereas the unit is within the water because of interference points.
Should you purchase an Aiper Scuba X1?
If it had a worth of $500, the Aiper Scuba X1 is perhaps a suitable lower-cost pool robotic resolution, but it surely simply doesn’t do a ok job cleansing to advantage shopping for it at its full worth of $1,200.
The problem concerned with cleansing the filter basket solely makes issues extra irritating, and the worth proposition even much less compelling.