Einleitung
I live in the country with Dogs, Cats, Dirt, Mud and no cliffs. We do have dark knotty LVP flooring. We launch our Roomba every night at 1:00am… This is my second one and over the last few months the cliff-sensors (which are not sealed) continue to say “Eek! Cliff!” right in the middle of the floor… Sometimes after traveling 1-2 feet from the last falsely detected cliff.. Since the dust has built up inside the sensor wiping and cleaning the sensors made no difference.
Before throwing out the Roomba I decided to perform one-way surgery on the cliff sensors in order to completely disable the ability of the Roomba to detect a cliff
Werkzeuge
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The sensor is easily disassembled by lifting the two small plastic latches on the side. Once the cover is removed you could clean the sensor and replace it....
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Since I'm very tired of Error-6 messages and will not be adding stairs to my dirty house I opted to alter the sensor so that it will never detect a cliff falsely or otherwise.
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These sensors work by emitting an IR light from one side and since there are baffles in the sensor it must bounce off a floor to reach the detector in the other side.
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THIS STEP CANNOT BE UNDONE.
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I removed the baffles from the sensor so that the detector and emitter have a direct line of sight to each other
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I used a small pair of wire cutters to cut out the baffles as needed
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I put the Roomba back together and it cleaned until the battery was dead... For the first time in months...
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.