Does anyone know where the lift detection switch/hardware is located in the Yarbo? Ol’ HAL 9000 has been seeming been getting more and more sensitive to this and I’m wondering if there is debris in the switch/mechanism that is causing it to trip more often than it should. I’ve been mowing for several weeks now and at the beginning I’d only see the error in a a select few places that I knew were uneven ground, but now I’m seeing it all over the place and sometimes I can’t get the error to clear without driving it around remotely for several minutes in different directions.
Anyone else see this or can offer advice?
Disable it in work preferences
That’s not really a solution to the issue, nor is it an answer to my question. I have had on several occasions where that feature has stopped the rover from doing something that would have absolutely caused great damage to occur. So I’d rather not disable a safety function like that…
Sorry, it was early and misread that. The switch is located in the casters. If they drop down, either one, it trips the lift detection. It is known to cause a lot of false positives and the feature is mainly meant for safety in regards of someone lifting the module vs anything else. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t ultimately had to disable it. It’s too sensitive and will cause a lot of plan pauses for false positives.
I just discovered why mine was doing it on the bee farm. When the property was cleared, a few tractor wheel ruts and tree root ball holes were left behind, despite the leveling efforts. When Buzz passes over them, the casters drop and it pauses the plan with an error.
Not knowing what was going on last weekend, I kept shutting him down, removing the mower module, looking underneath, then re-assembling. It came up fine. It got annoying after a while. After ten of these errors, I gave up, packed him into the truck, and went home.
This weekend, I tried something different. Buzz was mowing the bee yard field and I was on the other side of the farm working another field. The wife hung out to monitor Buzz. She would text me when he stopped. I would use the system reset button, then he would come back up saying ready to work, then I hit resume. Worked like a charm. He had 4 of those with tractor ruts yesterday and I he was able to finish the job while I was 1400 feet away.
Kevin Schlosser
Yarbo Dad to: Buzz LightYar & Bumble
Ya, I’m basically having to do the same thing on my rover. The reason I suspected that the mechanism is getting hung up is that some times when it happens I only have to move the rover a little and the error clears, but sometimes I have to drive it all over kingdom come to get the error clear. Knowing that the switch is on the casters makes a lot of sense if the casters are getting bound up with a lot of grass they may be dropping and then not retracting.
While I do roll my yard at least one a year, there are parts of my yard where the ground is indeed very uneven.
I’ll have to make a point to pull the mower head and look at the casters…
