Aqua Products Mamba Automatic Pool Cleaner

I've used Mamba's for about 6 years now with good results on my in-ground rectangular 13x30 fiberglass pool. It sometimes takes time and effort to get a suction cleaner of this style to work well. Here are some techniques that I’ve discovered that help Mamba do a good job.My Mamba’s hose attaches to her control valve placed into the vertical pool plumbing suction connector under the pool wall skimmer basket. I use a skimmer basket with a built-in 2-inch hole on the bottom to run her hose through to the Mamba control valve. This method enables me to still use a skimmer basket and to attach the Mamba suction control unit below the basket. The Mamba control valve also sucks water, so this technique then causes the skimmer basket to draw in and trap water surface debris. The hose goes through the pool skimmer door opening, not over the top of the pool.I use a Hayward W560 horizontal leaf filter, attached to Mamba’s tubing about 4 feet out from the skimmer, to reduce pump basket cleaning. The “horizontal” leaf filter is preferred because it doesn't often get it the way of Mamba's ever-moving tubing like a vertical canister would. The canister floats because the suction will draw in air through the hose connections, but not too much air, just enough to have a small amount of air trapped in the leaf canister. I used clear box tape wrapped (and trimmed) a couple of times around the hose end to get it to fit snugly into the leaf canister. There are some informative YouTube videos on using the Hayward leaf filter. Usually, a couple of times per year, I use swimming pool gasket/o-ring grease to lube the rubber o-ring on the Hayward to make it easier to pull the top off. I connected 5 aqua colored tubes (purchased separately) and mixed them in with Mamba’s white ones because the aqua tubes bend more easily which then allows Mamba to turn easier.When she sucks in large leaves or a stick, she might stop clicking, but it's usually easy to carefully reach into Mamba’s pancake bottom opening and remove these obstructions, even with the pump still on - be sure to keep her submerged to avoid sucking in too much air. Although rarely used, Mamba's upper chamber clean-out openings are handy too. I’ve noticed that some pancake-style bottom suckers do not have this upper chamber clean-out feature.My Mamba runs around 8 hours a day for the 6-month swimming season, here in south Texas. In winter, I cover the pool and it runs 2 hours a day under the cover. With this amount of run time, they have lasted almost 3 years. Apparently, the internal (clicker) mechanism wears out, and although she'll suck water, she won't move about the bottom and it's time for her retirement. From reviews I've seen, Mamba's economical price is a good investment in pool maintenance and is as good, if not better, than the other more expensive pancake-style bottom cleaners.

I have a problem with the pool vac valveI called and got somebody last name Moore she asked me to email them the probed of purchase before they could help me but they never responded back. The company name is Fluidra.

We have a 10500 gal pool and this unit works great! It DOES climb walls and work it's way all around the pool. I found that by adjusting the valves between the main drain and skimmer (that's where I hook up the vacuum), I am able to get the unit to 'Thump' (hop along via kenetic energy created by a flapper valve assembly in the unit head opening and closing) just enough without a very high flow rate through the vacuum. A balancing act. I had the same problem my daughter had with her pool cleaner, it wants to climb out of the deep and and wander around in the shallow end. I place the unit in the deep end and lay the hose around the exit railing at the deep end climb-out. The unit wanders around the deep end until I slip the hose off the railing to clean the shallow end.Like the "Roomba" vacuum robot, the pool cleaner 'walks' along randomly, re-cleaning some areas several times but, eventually cleaning the entire pool.After hurricane Matthew blew through here in October, 2016, I set the cleaner to work cleaning all the dirt that blew through the screens into the pool. Saved me HOURS of work, I was able to spend that time cleaning the debris from my yard.The ONLY con is that my unit does not clean the tread of each step out of the pool. HOWEVER, it does NOT require me to spend hours manually cleaning the pool and does not require batteries, power or any modification to your system!I originally bought one of these as a gift for my daughters family pool and liked it so much, I bought one for our pool also.

Amount of suction pool generates is important, first day seemed questionable in corners, clearned filter to make sure I had enough suction, and next day and thereafter it is working great.

I got this on Wednesday. When I opened the box i started the assembly of my sweeper when I got it to gether their were two pieces of cracked blue off the sweeper one was off the back where you put the weight in to keep it on the bottom. The other piece is blue also but I can't find where it goes.

The media could not be loaded. Very happy and is a great price very nice Ty so much