Well, I bit the bullet and took my Turbo T2 to Aqua products repair center in Ceder Grove NJ. Had a very good experience there. Within 1.5 hours they fixed my problem. Turns out it was an electrical short in the pump. I don't know why in the trouble-shooting that I had done I could not confirm this short (I checked the cable, motor, and pump individually). Anyway, $190 later my T2 is fix and it has worked fine on its first day back in the pool (turns out it was still partially under warrantee - '08 model). Hopefully I'll get many more good years use out of it! [Incidentally, the Tech that confirmed the short used a single fine wire from a short piece of stranded-wire to use to confirm the short rather than risk blowing the fuse in the power supply. The heavy current of the short melted the fine wire instead thus saving the fuse. Cool!]
Jun 21, 2011 Rating
Blowing Fuzes - Checked Cable No Luck by: Anonymous
Because I have been blowing fuzes in my Aquabot Turbo T2 I checked the cable and also all the cable splices with no luck. After applying new crimp-on connectors, etc., I am still blowing fuzes. The power supply checked out OK with just the bare cable attached as well as with just the motor and pump both hooked up separately to the power supply. The motor and pump would both function fine separately and also connected togther out of the water, but once reassembled and placed back in the pool I would blow fuzes again. I am wondering now that if there is a tilt sensor in the robot could this be shorting when the robot tries to climb and tilts in the process? The robot blew the fuze right when it started to climb after being reassembled. Thanks for the help as I am about ready to give up with the decision to try and fix or buy new (the unit came with the pool and could possibly be 8 years old).
Jun 05, 2011 Rating
robot stop after few minutes by: Anonymous
i had the same problem. I resolved it by bypassing the timer. It works without problem, i have just have to stop it when it is finished cleaning the pool.
