When Yarbo gets stuck, breaks an antenna, loses GPS or has any other issue that prevents it to go back to the charging station or to complete its program, Yarbo stays on and discharges completely to 0%. This is bad for the battery and, if far away, it is extremely heavy to move back by hand to the charging station. I suggest an option where when the battery gets critically low (5% maybe? or user selectable?) the Yarbo enters a “sleep mode” or simply shuts down so when we are ready, we turn it back on manually and drive it back to the charging station using our Phone or controller. I think this feature is urgently needed to prolong the life of the device and also protect our backs for trying to move this beast by hand…
Thanks so much for your suggestion — we completely understand where you’re coming from. Adding a low-battery sleep or auto-shutdown mode could indeed help protect the battery and reduce the hassle of manual recovery.
That said, we also want to ensure such a system doesn’t lead to confusion or unintended issues in other scenarios. We’ll pass your feedback along to our product team for further review, especially if more users express interest in this feature.
We appreciate you taking the time to share your experience!
Discharging to 0% (and staying there a while) might be worse than sitting for long periods at 100%, both are not good for long battery life. We users should be given control of both of those states, so that we can control the variables for long battery life vs long run time.
I understand your reply. However, if away from home and Yarbo gets stuck, it discharges completely. When you come back, there is just no way to recharge it and since it has drainedd completely, we can’t move it using the controller. The portable charger that comes with the device can’t connect to the battery directly so the only way to move the Yarbo is by hand (this thing is super heavy!). When not in use, it should shut down. I used to have A husqvarn 450X and when stuck, after 1h it did shut down. Same for my landroid Worx. After 20 minutes, shut down. I don’t think this is normal that Yarbo discharges completely to 0% when stuck. It damages the battery and makes it super hard to move it back to the charging station.
You can charge using the wired charger when the battery is dead. You can also get the optional battery charging cable and directly charge the battery with the wired charger.
I agree that it should auto shut down at 5% power minimum. I think the reason they don’t is mostly for GPS tracking, remote control, etc.
Agreed. Im not saying my suggestion below is a good solution. We shouldnt even be having this conversation, but here we are. This would solve the problem in the interim. A portable power station would allow you to recharge in the field. The Anker C1000 is on sale and works great. I have three of them and have never had any issues with them. Its portable and has so many other use cases. If you want something bigger look at the F2000 (I also have one of these) or newly released F3000. If you dont like Anker look at Bluetti or even Pecron. Jackery mostly uses lithion ion which you really dont want. Their newer units use Lithium Iron Phosphate so if you go Jackery make sure you get one that uses LiFoPO4 batteries.
I never had my unit get stuck in a field but I did have it drive itself so far under my truck I had to get a floor jack to get it unstuck.
