JC’s View

Disclaimer: My company was involved in the software design / interface for the iRobot ConnectR product. 

I love having a pool but one of the things that I have never been particularly interested in, or honestly, very good at, is cleaning it.  When we first bought the house 10 years ago, we looked into a pool robot but most of the reviews were very, very bad.  However, this past summer, I decided to take a look at the market again and found some very good reviews on the iRobot pool cleaners. Based upon my research, the best choice for our pool was the iRobot Verro 500 PowerScrub.

Overall first impressions are that this is an amazing product.  It came pretty much all set to go and that is exactly what it did.  I let it run without doing much and then I brushed the floor and let it run again.  The pool has never been so clean and using it was a snap. 

From a consumer point of view, the only gotcha was that the power connection from the robot to their power supply was hard to connect properly.  But other than that, I would say that this device, though expensive, is a homerun.  I’ll follow-up after I’ve used it for a month but it was simple to use, extremely effective, and will save on electricity, pool pump, filter, chemicals, and water refilling.  I may try do a ROI on it, but, it is hard to calculate the pleasure of seeing and using a sparkling clean pool.