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Comment on Lawnbott Live by Betsie Lawnbott » No more mowing the sidewalk

Betsie Lawnbott » No more mowing the sidewalk — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:59:09 +0000

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Comment on My Yard Yesterday by Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:55:23 +0000

Phil sent me the link to your blog. This video is fascinating. I was wondering how the lawnbot worked.

Comment on Way to go (mow)! by sara (betsie's mom)

sara (betsie's mom) — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:56:33 +0000

I’ll make a post about that with pictures when I get a chance.

Hope everyone’s enjoying their long weekend!

Comment on Way to go (mow)! by Kerry

Kerry — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:53:42 +0000

Hey!

I love the Stickcam! How do you do it? And don’t spare the details!

Thanks!

Kerry

Comment on Way to go (mow)! by Preston

Preston — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:18:29 +0000

Glad to see Betsie is back in action for you! If you need anything, please feel free to email us.

Comment on Great customer service, as always by Jason Rakowski

Jason Rakowski — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:13:20 +0000

Good Layout and design. I like your blog. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. .

Jason Rakowski

Comment on Redoing the wire by toolbelt

toolbelt — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:32:16 +0000

Check out the latest posting on bamabots.com under New User. The general consensus is that it’s best to go with the pegs until you get it working then put it under ground. My self I’d leave it top side and let the grass grow over it.

As far as the charger house connector goes I’d first try putting a 12 inch piece of stranded wire into the connector hole then using a piece of wooden dowel rod wedge it down along side of the wire making sure the connector pin makes contact. Maybe a couple of toothpicks will also work or a piece of solid copper wire. You could then attach the perimeter wire to the 12 inch piece. Do that for both pins.

If you can’t get a good connection then you can remove the tape from under the terminal house to get at the connector. Make sure you mark which is Red and which is Black so you don’t get the signal going the wrong direction. I’d solder the pigtails so you have a good connection.

Use stranded wire for the two pigtails as they will be easier to move around.

It doesn’t make any difference what you use for the perimeter wire, solid or stranded.

If you chose to go top side make sure you pin the wire every 18 inches or it will get clipped.

I pinned mine and there is only one spot where I can now see the wire. However, it’s a lot easer to find when I want to find it.

Note that one person suggested renting a cable pulling machine.

Have fun….toolbelt

Comment on Rogue Robot… eep… by sara (betsie's mom)

sara (betsie's mom) — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:08:11 +0000

She hasn’t been running too much… between the drought we had at the end of summer and the frosts we are getting now.

I did catch her across the driveway again once when she was out last time though. Haven’t figured out what the problem is. I’m planning to redo the wire in the spring. The wire I have out there has a lot of breaks that cause problems (can’t find them) and was used at my first house where I got Betsie and then re-used here.

Comment on Rogue Robot… eep… by Preston

Preston — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:15:20 +0000

Have you had a chance to run Betsie? Did you find the problem area? Is she still finding her way out of the wire?

Comment on Just a normal humid Monday… by Mark

Mark — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:55:44 +0000

I hope the newscast goes well. Sometimes they really chop those and people might really just buy into what the landscaper said.
I get alot of people that are anti-chopper because he is out all the time and they seem stuck in the get a big 50″ ZTR mower and mow it in an hour once or twice a week. I mow it in 0 hours so how is that longer? Plus my lawn is always within 1/2″ of it’s maintained height while they are cutting far more then 1/3 of the top off when they mow. *shrug*