Ambrogio Robot Installation: Extremely Complicated Perimeter Wire Layout - It works!

I can never leave something unfinished. In this past post, Ambrogio Robot Mower Installation - Extremely Complicated Example, I wrote about the installation for a consumer who lives in a rural area and did not have a local dealer nearby. 

Our Ambrogio robot mower dealer network is growing in the five states of our territory: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio & Wisconsin. Many rural areas are still in need of dealers. In a case such as this, when there is no dealer nearby and the installation is too complicated for DIY, we act as the dealer and do the installation ourselves. If we had a dealer in close enough proximity and the dealer was fully trained and conscientious with important technical details, then our role would as a coach - to assist the dealer in achieving a successful installation by providing technical information and planning advice. 

In this case, no one was available to do the installation, and, even though I have worked with Ambrogio robot mowers almost 15 years, I was unsure whether the robot would keep-up with the mowing, given the multiple narrow passageways and patches of thick/dense grass in some areas. I would not have wanted a dealer to be burdened with an unhappy customer if it did not work out. Here is a collage highlighting the complexity of the property:

Complex Property to be Maintained by Ambrogio Robot Lawn Mower

One of the really great things Ambrogio robot mowers have that beats competitors is its ability to mow narrow spaces. One competitor in particular brags about their ability to navigate narrow passageways but if the passageway is too narrow for mowing, there will be unmowed grass on each side. 

On the other hand, Ambrogio has a very low wire-to-wire mowing specification, it is only 2 feet 4" (70cm). I would not trust this specification on two sides of an obstacle, though. Technically, it will work, but the extra maneuvering the robot has to do will create ruts and may trample the grass, too. Near obstacles, I like to have 4-5 feet. In cases where 4-5 feet is not available, it would be wise to make ground modifications to eliminate changes to the terrain over time that will cause problems. I will save these details for a future post.

Back to my story. The installation required 6 hours to plan it, 1.5 days to install the wire and 1 day to program the menus and fully test it. A few tweaks are needed but the homeowner is willing to go with it as is for now. The minor changes will be done in a month or so.

The acreage is 1.4 acres/5665 square meters of grass. Deliberately I recommended a robot capable of much more, the 350i that maintains up to 1.75 acres/7000 square meters of grass. This is to compensate for the extra maneuvering that will occur between the beds.

Ambrogio Robot 350i for up to 1.75 Acres

This video gives an overview of the installation plan before the wire was layed out:

This video gives the ground level view of the entire wire layout after the robot has been working for a few weeks.

If the videos do not play, go to YouTube and search for Ambrogio Extremely Complicated Installation to find them.

The week before the above video was made, it had been raining a lot. The homeowner decided to pause the robot mower for around 4 days to let the rain stop and to allow the property to drain. 

Typically, a lawn will look perfectly manicured always, unless the Ambrogio robot mower is paused. I had been by in the morning the day the video was made to show the robot and the installation to a dealer candidate in the area. Maybe because of the time of year or the overnight lows, the grass really did not look too bad, considering the robot mower had been turned off. The robot mower ran all day, then I stopped by again to make the video in better lighting. By the time I returned, the robot mower had caught-up a lot. I was totally blown away by its performance. All of my apprehension and doubt about the Ambrogio robot mower's ability to keep-up with mowing on this crazy-difficult lawn is now gone. 

I hope that dealer candidates reading this post understand the potential Ambrogio brings to the party. The Ambrogio brand of robot mowers spans the entire spectrum of lawns: city lots, suburban properties, manicured estates, commercial buildings, fields up to 5 acres, and properties with steep slopes up to 37 degrees (Quad). Ambrogio offers increasingly scalable performance with the Infinity System. The safest robot mower on the market: Quad, uses "touchless" obstacle detection via Micro Radar. Ambrogio robot is the only brand with a pet safety accessory (Amico) and much more. Ambrogio is the one-stop shop for robot lawn mowing. Why bother with another brand?

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