I’m trying to mow and trim my 1 acre field. The mower works but the string trimmer turns off and doesn’t restart. I have the entire boundary and most of the no-go set for trimming. I had to power cycle the core and then the trimmer worked for a few feet and shutoff again. There aren’t any errors shown in the app.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Power down, pull battery cable for 5 mins. Disconnect the trimmer module connection cable and reattach it. Make sure it clicks and is secure. Try again.
I see the same behavior.
Jury is still out on this one. I followed your suggestions and it seems to work. However, I still noticed it going on/off at times, just not frequently nor continuously. Will see what happens on the next mowing.
Get a ticket opened so they can check it out. Might be something else going on. At least if it continues to work and they find nothing wrong, all is well. But if it continues to have issues, you are already in the backlogged queue.
Just submitted a request …ticket 211415.
Actually just occurred to me, are you hearing it turn off for a few seconds and then back on? About every 5 mins? This is normal as it spools the line out. It will shut off, engage the line feed, and then turn back on to advance the line out.
Not sure about the timing…could be for that aspect. Originally it just turned off completely and never came on again.
I’m fairly sure there is a software issue here, so my idea / suggestion is we keep this thread focused on “trimmer stops during mowing jobs [when it shouldn’t]”, add details as we have them, and ultimately we see what Yarbo support says.
Three variants I’ve recorded:
a) Trimmer has an error (e.g. contacts ground and shuts-off) but Yarbo doesn’t stop the program / mowing for the error. It doesn’t inform you of the error, it just moves on - but now with no trimming. Yarbo completes the job like everything is fine, but trimming is left partially done. When I notice this as it happens (during the job), I’ve been able to restart the trimmer almost all the time by pausing the job, going to the phone remote, touching “Clear Error” and resuming. Yarbo handling the error in some fashion is clearly a missing feature (software not complete) or a bug. Happens to me on every trimming session.
b) Trimmer stops trimming mid-trim for no obvious reason. Must be another/different unreported error of some sort…i.e. this is the same as ‘a’ but we don’t know why it stops, and you get the same behavior of continued-mowing-but-no-more-trimming.
c). Trimmer stops but the clear error ‘trick’ doesn’t work - after clearing error the trimmer doesn’t resume on resume. Trimmer DOES work in this case if you activate it with the remote - it then literally shuts down when you leave the software remote, and when you hit resume it resumes mowing - but not trimming. I’ve definitely had this with ‘b’; I’m not sure if I’ve had it with ‘a’.
Note for clarity none of this is about brief pauses for line spooling; we are talking about the trimmer stopping and staying stopped when it is supposed to be trimming.
And in my case, if the detail helps Yarbo, I am using out-of-area Memory Path trimming.
And lastly, re ‘a’, …the trimming process is more fragile than I expected, but the particular error isn’t the OP issue here per se, the issue is that the trimmer stops doesn’t do anything useful with the error, it just stops and stays stopped (and doesn’t inform).
yes the trimmer stops working. I have experienced it on two different cores. and both on edge trimming and memmerypath.
Sounds very similar to my experience. However, I have a combined mow/trim job defined. Could be that the trimmer is striking the ground, very likely in fact. The area is very uneven and the mower blades will sometimes strike dirt.
Hmm, haven’t heard or seen this before. AFAIK, it shouldn’t just stop trimming and continue. It should pause the plan with a line feed error. That should be the only error that stops everything with the trimmer besides the limit angle.
Thanks for sharing your observations and detailed feedback. I’ll reflect this to our team for further investigation.