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DiscountDelight - iRobot Roomba 4900 Self-Charging Drive-On Home Base
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List Price: $69.99
Our Price: $54.99
Your Save: $ 15.00 ( 21% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Roomba
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Kitchen
Brand: Roomba
EAN: 0853816049004
Feature: Measures approximately 13 by 4 inches
Label: Roomba
Manufacturer: Roomba
Model: 4900
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Roomba
Release Date: 2004-09-15
Studio: Roomba
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Features
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Measures approximately 13 by 4 inches
Accessory to Roomba Discovery Series models of floorvacs
Fast-charging power supply; APS Fast Charge included
Recharges a Roomba APS battery in less than 3 hours
2 convenient lights indicate power and charge function
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: 90% accurate and a 3 hour charger, Well worth it....
Comment: When Roomba is getting low it WILL seek out its home base. You do however need to place the base in the middle of the cleaning area with plenty of visiblity. If this is done, Roomba will find its way home. This feature is also nice because it will charge the Red in 3 hours instead of 7.
If you have an L shape floor, well that is what the virtual wall is for. For example, you clean one area (living room, Dining room) and then you do the other area (Family room, Kitchen). Not to tough to figure out.
Customer Rating:
Summary: too much money, and not that great
Comment: I had bought this thinking that I wouldn't ever have to plug roomba in to charge. That didn't happen. If Roomba is in another room when the battery is running low, he won't make it to the charger. So you still have to pick it up and carry it to the charger, so what is the point? (I have an "L" shaped living area, and it isn't even that big)
You have to "babysit" roomba anyway. Sometimes his back cover falls off and you have to put it back on (very annoying, why won't it stay on?) Roomba can also get stuck in places or pick up something you forgot to get out of the way and run until the motor burns out (at least they gave me a replacement)
So it just isn't worth the money. I just bend over and plug it in myself and saved the 50 bucks.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good but not quite as advertised
Comment: The manufacturer states that after Roomba has completed its "mission" or the battery is running low, it will automatically seek the home base to recharge. However, after its "mission" is completed it simply stops and emits plaintive signals until it is turned off. On the other hand, when the battery is running low, it does attempt to return to the base but not always successfully since it moves about randomly and may exhaust its battery before the base is found. It is otherwise a good product and a great convenience.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Increases the usability of my Roomba Red
Comment: Between the lowering of the charge time to 3 hours from 7 hours AND the fact I can leave it in a room and have a 90% certainty of it being on the base charging when I get back to it, this has made my roomba red incredibly more useful. I can drop it off to work in my bedroom when I get up. in the middle of the morning put it in the baby's room. Then grab it when I put her down for her nap and let it do the living room and have it recharged in time to have it do the basement or another room before dinner.
With the quicker charge time and the automation of charging it has stopped me from considering spending the money on a second roomba since I get so much more out of my one.
If your roomba did not come with the fast charger and the docking base, this will make your roomba so much more useful. Oh and no more finding the little guy stuck in the middle of under a bed.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Roomba Self-Charging Home Base is like magic! Clean your rooms better than ever with the Roomba Vacuum and then it automatically finds its home base and charges fast. The vacuum will find its home base when it has completed a cleaning cycle or the battery is running low. Charges fully in 3 hours. Made in USA.
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