Finally matched my robot schedule to when debris actually falls

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Small one but felt good. Been running the Scuba S1 every other day on a timer regardless of season, and kept wondering why the bin looked half empty some days and packed the next. Pulled up a month of runs and realized it lines up with when my oaks drop stuff, obviously, but I never actually tracked it before. Switched to running it daily during the two weeks the pollen and leaf drop is heaviest, then back to every third day the rest of the month. Bin fill is way more consistent and the impeller isn't straining through a backlog every time. Dumb lesson but worth sharing, if your schedule is static year round it's probably fighting your trees instead of your actual debris load. FWIW the app logs runtime per session which made this easy to spot.

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no trees here in phoenix so my mess is more like dust and the occasional dead palm frond blowing in, but same idea hit me with my manual vac, i was dragging that thing around every single day out of habit and half the time there was barely anything to pick up. now i just eyeball the water after a windy day and vac then instead of on a schedule, saves me like twenty minutes i used to waste pushing it around an already clean pool. no app logging runtime for me since im not robot gang yet but ngl this thread is making me want the Aiper even more just for that kind of data.