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Dropping In Polaris Robot Vacuum (2016)

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Channel: jaykay18 · 2016 · Howto & Style

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Originally recorded May 19, 2016.

It was time for the first run of robot, the Polaris vacuum.  His name is pronounced "rah-baht" because of something that happened back in the early 1980's on Mr. Wizard's World, where he had an original IBM PC with speech capability.  The technology wasn't there yet, so even though the word "robot" was entered, it was pronounced "rah-baht".  The name stuck.

Anyway, robot is instrumental in helping me get the green pool blue again, because not only does he pick up leaves, but also stirs up the water just by going by.  That kicks up a lot of the algae on the bottom into suspension, where it is later filtered away.  So a few days of running robot, a brushing or two, and tomorrow shows the result!

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