Dolphin Quantum Pool Cleaner VS Dolphin Odyssey Pool Cleaner

ing one. The Maytronic’s unit I had before the Polaris, I cannot remember the model, but for all intents and purposes the same as the Premier. I bought the Quantum because my daughter's twelve-year-old friends pulled my Premier's power supply into the pool. I almost bought another Premier but read about the Quantum and decided to try it. The filters on the Premier and prior units are loaded by turning the unit upside down and extracting the filter bank after sliding two tabs with finger tips or at times with a screw driver because my dainty fingers can’t take pressure. After the filter bank was removed on the Premier, you remove the 4 filters from the holder by flipping 4 rotating clips and individually power spray each filter then reload the four filters into the holder by rotating the 4 clips, load the holder with filters in the robot, and finally re-engage the sliding tabs. With the Quantum pull up on the lid latch with one index finger, pull the tray out, rinse the four filters still in the tray, replace the filter tray and close lid. Every once in a while I will, or might I don't know I am lazy, remove the four filters and individually power spray them, but I don't have to do it every time now. The geometry of the Quantum tray with filters is a large volume 3-D trapezoid as opposed to the 2x low volume 3-D triangles of the Premier. I have a 50'x24' pool with 50k gallons and ? surface area which collects leaves as well as my wife's flower pots (at least once every single summer!). Anyway, the Premier gets clogged up and a sensor tells the system to prematurely stop. So I need to do the above recurrently until the job is done with the small capacity Premier filter volume repeatable stopping up. I had plenty of leaves in the pool today requiring three runs on the Quantum to clear, but he Quantum never stopped without completing its cycle. One pain in the butt avoided and each cleaning much easier than with the Premier. The Premier has an anti-tangle swivel that the Quantum does not. However, the Quantum does not get tangled. I guess because the robot spins alternately clock and counter clockwise. Hence, no Quantum Entanglement …. Spooky action at a distance? The Quantum also has a cool blue light on the front, which ostensible provides the Nav 2.0 AI with some visual info but I don’t care. The design features above are all I need. The Quantum robot could take a drunken sailor random walk on the bottom of my pool and I’d be fine. The blue light and sensor may provide increased efficiency over prior Maytronics devices, but for me the blue light is just cool and my lazy butt just wants to clean the dirty filters easily. On a final note the Quantum is designed to be serviced by the owner. One of my life goals is to understand the General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Now thankfully with my new robotic pool cleaner I can be a Quantum Mechanic

pool walls pretty well and coverage seems ok, although it misses spots. The cord seems to not twist on mine. The robot comes with a controller that is easy to use, however there is no wireless capability with this machine. As a result, if it misses a part of the pool, your only recourse is to manually position it. The controller seems to have a bluetooth button, but it doesn't work. I called the company and they verified that bluetooth does not work on this robot even though the controller has a bluetooth button. At the start of the season, the Quantum easily sucked up all the winter residue without choking. Here, the two types of bags were very helpful, as I could use the screen for the heavy residue and then finish up with the fine particle cleaner (the Aquabot only has the bag, which clogs quickly). In my opinion, for the price and the fact that this is advertised as "top of the line", this is a surprising deficiency. So, for me, the choice comes down to whether you want slightly better cleaning, bluetooth and a very difficult to clean cleaning bag (Aquabot) or a slightly inferior cleaning ability (but still quite good), no bluetooth and a very easy to clean cleaning bag (Dophin) (and a second filter option for heavy debris)

ts caught up on my drain and I have to pull it off. happens once or less per full cleaning cycle. no catty included. Some say the cord tangles up but mine has not after 3 cleans so far. (I have a kidney shaped pool with a deep end sitting ledge, 9 ft deep, and step entry with no railings, pebble bottom. Although celans very well, it missed a couple small spots. I had the maytronics DX4 before and it works a lot better in its ease of cleaning, wall climbing, total pool cleaning, and would get caught up on the drain 4 times more, and return to the drain like a magnet sometimes. So, in conclusion, my primary goal is to have a clean pool that got the walls and water lines and be able to easily clean the device which it accomplished. the ability to set a schedule is nice too (though would prefer the ability to set a more personalized schedule, i.e. tuesday, thursday, saturday at 4 pm. I could care less about remotely controlling it, the device should be cleaning all the pool without my assistance, that's the whole point of it. delay would be useful if I had company but a minor function. I would neer need a fast clean anyway, I always want the pool fully clean, not skipping on the detail. So, I am a little dissapointed on the false advertising of the fast and delayed options and blue tooth, and getting caught on my drain, but will keep it because it accomplished very well my primary goals for it

d the extra weight keeps it from tipping. Cons: Does not cover all of pool surface in one cleaning cycle as advertised. I see no indication of it having "learned the pool", and it has favored spots that get a super cleaning, and some not touched. It has a love affair with the pool drain, even when the pool filter is not running, so need to buy a cover basket to keep it from getting hung up there. EXTREMELY heavy to lift out of the pool, and if its not angled just right, the dirty water runs back in the pool as it's lifted out. We have the caddy purchased because it's a lot of weight to lug around, and when stored, and if not using the $140.00 extra caddy, one has to turn it upside down for storage. I hope the caddy arrives soon. Also, changing from the fine mesh filter to the waffle filter is a royal pain. All four panels come out, and they are a stinker to get back in. I see that process wearing out quick, or else I give up and decide to just stay with one of the filters over the other. Instructions are minimal. I may be too critical, but considering it's high price tag, I was expecting it to be more efficient. Oh well, we are sticking with it and adapting