welcome to my channel it's matt the garden and lawn care guy and today we're going to
be installing a sun loss robotic lawnmower in this fantastic garden in cheshire so straight out the
box we've got a number of different pieces and i'm going to explain to you what each of these
does and show you the installation process this some loss lawnmower has been given to me to show
a demo installation but i've not been paid for the video so everything you'll see here is how i set
the lawn mower up and gave it a demo so first up we've got some pegs in the top left which are for
screwing down the base and creating the boundary wire in the middle we've got the lawn mower itself
and on the right we've got the docking station coming with the pack there's also some quite
detailed instructions on how to set the boundary wire for the mower now these machines work by
following a boundary wire around the edge of your property so they know where the boundaries are
and they cut the grass within those boundaries you can see here just an example i've run the boundary
wire down the left-hand side of the garden but just coming up we're going to be installing that
right round the perimeter taking a look at the machine itself you can see this keypad at the
back you can turn the machine on and you can operate it in two different ways it's got an
app where you can connect to a wi-fi system and control the machine patterns mowing days
and lots of other features through the app or you can run it through the control pad on the back
up at the top is the height of cut gauge which runs from around 60 millimeters right down to 25
millimeters this can be controlled by rotating the handle and that'll set the height of cut
you also get a power supply with the dock now this particular power supply came with a two pin probe
but i know the manufacturers are working on a solution for the uk market
so the first step is i'm going to measure out 30 centimeter slot the actual packaging itself comes
with some templates built in but i actually left them home in advance of this job the next step is
to look at connecting the power to the base unit you can screw in the power cord to the back of
the base unit which fixes in and then attach that to a waterproof socket outside after you've set
the base up it's around connecting the boundary wire the first part of the boundary wire goes
through a little hole in the front of the base you can slot it through run it through the base
and then connect it into one of the terminals at the back one of the things i noticed during
the installation is it's really important which of these two terminals the boundary wire gets
connected into it's not very complicated but it is important you put the right boundary wire in the
right connecting hole because it will determine which way the robot runs around the circuit
so the next step is around securing the base of the floor for our demo purposes i just picked this
spot it's a nice spot with two meter clearance in the front and enough space at the back for
the robot to move around so with the front of the boundary wire in and the station loosely screwed
down i'm going to start putting the boundary wire in you can connect this roughly 30 centimeters
away from the edge and you just put these little pegs in and run it around the boundary wire
you do also have the option to bury the boundary wire
which you can dig into the grass but if you're doing that just be careful around any utilities or
pipe work that might be running underneath it but for the purposes today i'm just going to do a demo
install where i'm going to peg the wire on the top of the surface after the wire is pegged in around
the whole lot of the garden you can trim the end off and put it in the second connector slot
now my loop's created and the robot has got a circuit where it can run around
so let's have a look at the robot itself if i flip the robot up on the underside of the unit
does this rotating disk the front wheels are fully rotating and the back wheels
have got these little traction spikes on them just to help it with some more rough terrain
the blades on itself look like almost little razor blades i decided to wear gloves for the
insulation because they are actually really sharp after installing the blades it's time
to put them over in its station and you have to reset it from the zero position
there are a lot more advanced features on this mode which you can control through the app
but today i'm just going to show you the automatic mode that the mower comes built in with where
you don't need the app or wi-fi you can run it straight out the docking station so in here i open
up the back of the unit using the stop button and i set the mower to find its home position
after the mower has found its home position i've selected the automatic cutting schedule which
just means the robot will bounce off the wire in random motion and over time cut the grass
one of the things i noticed is the robot itself is really really quiet
it's quite slow and it just moves its way through the garden cutting the grass at different passes
you can set this mower to run up and down in a vertical motion and do other patterns
such as zigzags but for here we've got it in random what the mower does is it just
cuts through the blades hits the boundary wire and then comes off the boundary wire at a random angle
i did try to test this with a number of different things and you can see here for example
a clothesline port in the middle of the garden and i also put some plant pots and other obstacles
so if you had obstacles in the garden this will work fine what it tends to do is it bumps into the
obstacle realizes an obstacle there and then turns around and carries on in a different direction
so in terms of the mower specifications let's have a look at what it can do
this model is actually the sum loss g1 robot lawnmower there's a new and upgraded version
which is the g1s with some improved capabilities such as the roll sensor for more rugged terrain
this particular unit comes in two different battery sizes for 1 000 square meters and 2
000 square meters it's really targeting those larger lawns this particular one that i've put
it on is a small lawn but it can go right the way up to 2 000 square meters and the cutting
height ranges from 2.5 centimeters or 25 mil to 55 mil the working time is one and a half to three
hours depending on your battery size and it takes around two to three hours to create a full charge
so let's take a look at some of the results i was actually really surprised with the overall results
that this machine put on the lawn it did a good job it did what it was supposed to do and it cut
the lawn just taking a fine little slither off the blades and all the debris that it cuts off
just drops back into the lawn and almost acts as a fertilizer it took me a little bit of time to work
out how to set it up properly but as you've seen in the video once i got going the whole system was
up and running in around half an hour i've only really just scratched the surface of this mower
there's loads of extra features such as mowing in the different directions and more features
on the app so if you'd like me to do some more videos explaining some of the different features
and perhaps showing a time lapse of the machine running then please give me a thumbs up to this
video because it helps me know that this is good content and you'd like me to make more of it
there's one last thing i would ask if you can please leave me a comment in the description below
do you think there's a place in today's market for robot lawn mowers or do you think we should all
stick to manual machines and can you think of any pros and cons which each machine might have to the
different types of users if you'd like to find out any more about the sun loss equipment i've left
a link in the description section below where you can go and find some more information about their
products
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