Chapter 2 Initial Setup
Recommendation, before you start:
During setup, you will insert pegs into the ground. To make this task
smoother, we recommend you mow your lawn and water it before starting.
Getting Ready
Make sure all parts needed for setup are within reach. Have Robomow box
nearby, so as to have all items available.
In addition, you will use the following tools: A hammer, a small flat and a
Phillips screwdrivers, Combination Pliers.
2.1 Perimeter Wire Setup
Before you start the setup, you should have a plan for the Perimeter Wire
layout and for the location of the Base Station. Your plan should consider the
following (see Sections 1.4-1.6):
U What type of lawn areas do you prepare?
(Main Zone Only / Main + Sub-Zones / Separated Zones /
combination of types).
U Are there protected or excluded areas on the lawn?
(Perimeter Islands).
U Are there any slopes that Robomow should avoid?
U Are there edges of pools, ponds, cliffs etc, that need an extra
distance from the Perimeter Wire?
2.1.1 Starting Point: Perimeter Wire at the Base Station area.
P Place the Base Station, according to your plan, with its front facing Anti
Clockwise on the perimeter.
Do not place the Base Station within 3 m (10 ft.) after a corner
P Select the roll of wire with a green plot connector attached to the end.
The other rolls do not have a connector at the end.
P Pull the plot connector and some of the wire, connected to it, out of the
plastic cover.
Do not remove the wire spool from its cover.
The plastic cover is the dispenser for the wire.
P Peg the beginning of the wire to the ground, where the Base Station will
be located.
Pegs are supplied in Robomow’s box.
P Pull out 30 cm (12 inches) of wire and leave it loose near the Base
Station location. Later, at the end of the setup this part of the wire will
close the Perimeter Wire loop.
P Start laying the wire in an Anti Clockwise direction.
P Continue to pull the Perimeter Wire out of its cover, laying it loosely as
you walk along the lawn edge.
If you get to any area /object that needs care or special boundaries,
make sure you carefully lay the Perimeter Wire as needed.
The next Sections deal with such special cases.
Hammer
Combination Pliers
Small flat and Philips
screwdrivers
Anti Clockwise
direction of wire layout
Perimeter Wire – do not
remove the plastic covering
Leave 30 cm
(12 inches)
starting point
Min. 3 m (10 ft.)
from any corner
