Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Robomower Winter Care and Feeding

After another season of mowing you’ve put your Robomower robotic lawn mower in the garage for the winter. No need to worry about it until spring, right? Wrong! That could cost you a pretty penny! First, the battery needs to be charged for one day every other month, if not the battery will deteriorate very rapidly. That will be very costly come the first mowing and you get a very short cutting session. Lead acid batteries are finicky. They can’t be left on the charger full time and they can’t be left alone all winter to drain. There are plenty of websites that cover the intricacies of lead acid batteries so I will skip the details. Suffice it to say that charging the batteries once a day-for only a day- every other month will extend the life of the battery consi View the rest of this article


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