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Which Roomba should I buy?

I’ve read so many forum, shops, and reviews that I don’t even know what to do anymore. I’m looking for some suggestion on which roomba to buy as I do have an open floor plan. See my crude drawing below:
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…………|…….Room 1……..|…|
…………|…….11×11……… .|…|
…………|……………………. D…|
_______|_______________|…|
|…………………………….. ..|. .|
|…………….Kitchen………. |. .|
|…………….20×15………… |. .|
|………………………………. |. .|
|…………………………….. E1. |
|____.E2_______________|. .|_____________________
…….|…………………………………….. …………… …………………..|
…….|…………………………………….. …………… …………………..|
…….|……..Family + Dining…………. …………. …………..|
…….|…………..40×20………………… ……………………………. |
…….|…………………………………….. …………… …………………. |
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…….|…………………………………….. …………… …………………. |
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…….|___________________… ._____________……. ……….|
____|___________________|. ..|……. ………….. \…… ………|
|……………………………._D ___|……… …………. \_. ..E3. .__|___
|…………………………….| ………………. …. ……… |………… ………|
|…..Master-Room……….|…. ..Master-Bath………. |….. .Office.. …\
|………….17×13………….|……. …..10×15… …….. |…….11×11… ..|
|…………………………….D …………… ……. ……… |……………. …../
|____________________|____________________|_____________|

The letter “D” means that I have a door there and the “E#” represents the opening entrance with no door. There is supposed to be a line and a wall to close off the office and the masterbed, but I couldn’t get it to show for some reason. I would like to find a roomba that would fit this plan. I would love to get the whole house clean, but the place I’m most concern about is the Kitchen and Family+Living rooms. It would be great to find a roomba that has enough intelligent (e.g. Lighthouse and Virtual Wall) and battery juice to do the job without me carrying it around.

–Where best to put the roomba?
–Is roomba smart enough to know about the open-floor plan between the Kitchen, Family+Living, and Office to do a thorough cleaning job?–Or is it just going to run for 35 minutes or so and then return to base.
–If roomba is not smart enough to do the cleaning job of the three offset rooms, then my plan would be to buy a roomba with lighthouse and virtual walls. My plan would be to leave/start the roomba in the Family+Living room, put a lighthouse at E2 and E3, and Virtual-Wall at E1. I could potentially buy more lighthouses to put in front of Masterbed and Room1 so that the roomba can go in there as well.
–I was looking at the 610, but it’s crazily expensive, plus it doesn’t have the aerovac-bin. It has the max mode (2 years warranty and room-to-room navigation), but I believe that you can only use max-mode manually and can’t put it in the schedule. Nevertheless, max mode is convenient when I just want it to run around to do cleaning until the battery die.
–I’m considering the 370 as well, since it has lighthouse. I would have to give up the max-mode and buy the aerovac-bin. If roomba actually covers the open floor well, then I could just use the lighthouse for Room1 and Masterbed room.–This would be the best option considering the scheduling convenience and price.
–The 550 from costco sales for $ 250, meaning that I could buy two of these with the same price as the 610. The problem with this one is that room-to-room navigation is not supported with this model, as it has Auto Virtual Wall and this model is 551001.

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Which Roomba is best?

I just got my “old” 400 series Roomba out of the closet and replaced brushes, and cleaned it up a bit. I charged it and the battery did not hold the charge so I’ve sent my hubby to Target to get a replacement battery and an additional Roomba since we live in a bigger house now.

Browsing online, I see there is now a a 500 series Roomba. It’s much more expensive than the original 400. Is it really worth the extra money? Is it that much better than the 400 series?

Which Roomba is best and why? Please be specific. I appreciate info from experienced users.

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Can I use a 12 volt DC adaptor with my Roomba robot charger’s 22.5 volt DC socket?

Can I use a 12 volt DC adaptor with my Roomba robot charger’s 22.5 volt DC socket? I’m in Beijing, China right now, and I went to a electrician to help me, and it worked fine. Lights came on and everything.

But he was afraid that in the long run it would hurt my Roomba or it’s internal battery.

More information: Roomba uses 33 watts. Roomba is made for American electrical outlets. I’m in Beijing, China: 220 volt outlets. (Also, adaptor is 3000 amps, roomba is 1500 amps… This I’m not sure about, though)

Thank you!!
My Roomba Robot is Model 530

=)
Thank you!

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Roomba Discovery?

I have a Roomba Discovery and every time I put the battery on the brushes start without me even pressing the power button, and when i put it on the charging dock it continues running, what can I do? I will appreciate any help I can get thanks.

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ROOMBA SCHEDULER PROBLEM?

When i turn on my roomba it only runs for 3 seconds and then it makes the beeping sound and the red blinking light that the battery is low on power. I keep it charged it its home base but when i turn it on does the something over and over.

i also took the battery out and placed it back in

and i done answers saying its and protest or its repelling, etc.
yes i turned it off and tried again
its out of warranty

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Roomba floor vac (original roomba).?

I have one of the original roomba vacs with the yellow battery. Does anyone know what amp/volt readings I should get from a fully charged battery?

What happening is my battery seems to be full charge but when I turn the power on it falshes green, then – when I select a room size the Roomba starts for a second and then goes dead – the charge inicator turns off (not red)

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Help! Why has my ROOMBA robot vacuum cleaner gone nuts?

My Roomba robot vacuum cleaner is being very weird. It keeps backing up a little bit, then spinning around, then backing up a little bit, then spinning around some more. It won’t clean in its normal pattern, and won’t do its normal “spot cleaning” behavior either.

I have cleaned every part of it that can be cleaned and disassembled and reassembled everything. I have removed the battery and replaced it later, and I have shut it off and let it charge back up, but it just keeps acting all crazy. Has anyone had this problem? If you got the thing to work properly again, how did you do it?

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Does the rechargeable battery finally become not rechargeable? It seemed that the battery was…?

…dead, but won’t recharge
about the rechargeable battery, it is to a Roomba floor sweeper

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The light on my virtual wall for my Roomba Red is blinking, how can I get it to stop?

I already changed the batteries, but it is still blinking? Any ideas what might be wrong?

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where to buy i roomba batteries?

4230 model

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