Louise’s Troubles
I had my Scooba less than a year when it stopped working. I asked for a refund but irobot chose to replace the machine instead. In the meantime, I was without a robot for 2 months. Now the replacement has stopped working after 5 months. All of my friends have replaced their unreliable Scoobas with Hoover Floomate and they are very satisfied with the product.
I had the same problem on a 1 year old SCOOBA. Tried all the usual solutions (including using a magnet to fool SCOOBA into thinking the tank was on, and running it for a few seconds to prime the pump).
The final solution??? There is a physical electrical connection between the tank and the SCOOBA main unit where a post on the tank has electrical wires on each side (small post protruding about a quarter inch out of the tank). The place it plugs in on the SCOOBA main body has two small spring metal contacts that come out of opposite sides of a small “hole” in the SCOOBA body. I had to bend the spring contacts further towards the center of the “hole” so that they would make better contact with the pins on the tank. That totally solved the problem.
Good luck!
Comment by Richard — December 13, 2008 @ 4:20 pm