The pool: A 45,000+ gallon pool in southern Nevada, free form in ground plaster, diving board depth.
Prior cleaners: "Creepy Crawler" via dedicated pool vac line, a Maytronics Dolphin, the Beatbot Aquasense 2.
The Beatbot Aquasense 2 blew away any prior cleaner for my pool. The basket collector is much easier to empty and clean than cleaning pool equipment filters or the Dolphins cartridge filters. The battery operation avoids having to pull cords or hoses out of the pool every time we want to swim. It cleans so well that a single pass of the Beatbot leaves visible clean lines in the bottom of the pool, similar to when you vacuum your carpets. It doesn't stay that way though because the Beatbot will cover the entirety of the pool floor on a single cleaning cycle leaving no areas untouched. (something my other cleaners failed to accomplish).
My pool is quite large, and the Beatbot seems to be able to do two floor cleaning cycles without needing to recharge, or one multizone cycle before recharging. Charging is not that big of a deal as you just pull it out and place it on the base for a few hours.
I did reach out to Beatbot after my purchase to inquire of a finer mesh collection basket because where I live my pool tends to accumulate really fine dust/silt. The baskets and filters that most cleaners ship with are not sufficient to address this fine dust/silt. I had purchased the media filter cartridges for the Dolphin to address this fine dust/silt, and they worked…