When you snag this steel cable, it opens the circuit which tells the control unit to stop the motor. One side is connected to the plastic base and the other side is connected to a make shift limit switch – which I am referring to as a sensor just to give it an easy to call by name. The “sensor” (it’s not really a sensor) is a steel cable that is suspended at either end with electrical butt connectors. So I noticed a few problems, observe as the globe rotates, it meets resistance on the track because it is not perfectly round in some places, because of this it can trip the same sensor that is in place to prevent snags (not really clear on how it would prevent a snag, but that is how it is presented). So it turns out that this unit is made of flexible plastic, which of course would be fine if there weren’t any parts that were dependent on there being no movement.
LITTER ROBOT PAUSES DURING CYCLE MANUAL
I re-positioned it, used the engineering pimp slap to see if that would jostle it back into submission, cleaned it, changed the litter, used less litter until I finally gave up and decided I was just going to hard wire the globe motor it uses to a Double Pole Double Throw (DPDT) switch for manual operation.ĭuring disassembly I found the kink in the design!įorgive me I don’t have the pictures right now, but I will be sure to add them soon. The unit would be stuck open so that the smells trapped in the drawer would permeate the house… that’s what you want to come home to after work right? I would come home, smell stagnant cat urine, feces and litter mixture and know instantaneously there was a problem. To my dissatisfaction, the unit begun to randomly stop during cycles after about 5 months of use. I bought the thing back in March 2012 (I think) and it has a 90 day warranty as long as I don’t remove the plastic bib that is placed over the control unit (which is really just a circuit board). Saves you a lot of time and you no longer have to deal with the odor while shoveling cat manure.
So I bought a refurbished litter robot for too much money, I know, I know – “You spent 289 dollars on a device for your cats to do their business in! Are you crazy?!” Trust me, it becomes more than annoying to have to clean up after your cats every week (sometimes 2-3 times a week when they are feeling extra generous), all of a sudden shelling out 289-400 dollars on a poop collecting device becomes a very nice luxury. If you want the fix, skip to the next section.
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