Chuwi Ilife V5 - a $ 99 robot vacuum cleaner or how to turn daily cleaning into fun
For everyone in life, there comes a moment when something in life is madly bored. For example, my wife and I were tired of washing dishes with my hands, and spending 20 minutes a day on it. And with the birth of a child, when 20 minutes is a huge bonus just to sleep. Now there is only one question to load and unload it, so far no robots can handle it. Many will say with their hands easier, faster, etc., and generally an unnecessary waste of money. But you quickly get used to the good, and now the rejection of the dishwasher will already make its own corrections in spending leisure time, taking away some of the free time. Well, I’ve come from very far away, let's get to the point. In fact, this robot vacuum cleaner, also at first glance, is a useless and unnecessary thing in everyday life. Yes, I would say a couple of months ago, but not now, because as I said, you get used to good very quickly, and especially when it’s good saves you time and tedious cleaning of the apartment. How to turn daily cleaning into entertainment, please read more ...
Let's start with the characteristics of a vacuum cleaner.
Charging voltage: 110-240V
Operating voltage: 11.1V
Power: 20W
Noise: 55 dB
Diameter: 30 cm
Charging time: 200 - 280min
Operating time: 110 - 130min Garbage
tank capacity: 0.3 l
Modes: Auto, spiral, edges, daily cleaning
This package was probably the largest in the history of my purchases. I regretted that I did not take the tape to make pens or a bag.
Inside the box is another box, worthy of protection against possible damage. Chinese vacuum cleaner - the inscriptions, respectively, too.
The packaging was solid 5 points, thick cardboard, and even another, already the third protection in the form of a thick sheet of cardboard was inside the box.
Inside the box, in separate cells, there is such a package:
I'll start with the docking station, which has two spring-loaded contacts for recharging the vacuum cleaner, and inside there are two IR LEDs through which the vacuum cleaner finds the docking station and is centered.
Evidence is given by 19 Volts and 0.6 Amperes for recharging the vacuum cleaner.
Accordingly, the same parameters have a network charger with a Chinese plug.
Spare brushes are included, but after two months of use, my brushes look completely alive. In the vastness of Ali, kits are sold, until you worry about the lack of consumables. The brushes are distinguished in the direction of rotation - left and right - of the logo L and R. There
should be cleanliness in everything, therefore we can use a brush like this to clean the container. Frankly, it’s corny in my closet, “Not useful” (C)
Spare microfiber cloth. One part has microfiber, the other is soft felt for attaching to platform plastic hooks. Stitched well, washable.
A separate plus is the presence of a HEPA filter, even the smallest particles of dust remain inside the vacuum cleaner. My filter is about once a week, the main thing is to let it dry well, and do not immediately insert it into the container.
The manufacturer did not regret for us even mini-finger batteries with an interesting name DureDay.
Remote Control. In principle, the most valuable thing in it is the ability to start cleaning, set the time for automatic cleaning and sending it to the base. My child often uses the arrow buttons and becomes the master of cleaning by controlling the vacuum cleaner where to go. The bottom three buttons - this is a spiral cleaning, return to recharge and around the perimeter of the room.
The remote control is equipped with two IR LEDs and works even if you "shoot" the vacuum cleaner in the back - since there are dust sensors on the back, there are also IR sensors.
Winter has not quite arrived in our area, and the puck is in place. According to the manufacturer, the main advantage of the vacuum cleaner is the height, which is 8 centimeters. This is very true for owners of low beds. The top cover opens, under it is a garbage container. The Clean button is touch-sensitive and starts the vacuum cleaner to work, or instead stops it.
You can not put the vacuum cleaner on the base, the manufacturer has provided for the possibility of "autonomous" charging.
The main part of the vacuum cleaner. In this configuration, namely with dressed microfiber, I run it under the beds and in the kitchen. On carpets it is better to unfasten. The brushes pick up the trash and dust in the yellow “mouth” that draws everything into the trash bin. Near the front wheel are two large platforms for charging. In my practice, the vacuum cleaner always got into the base.
This is how an advertising picture describes it.
But having removed the protective pad, we get to the batteries of the vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaner is powered by three li-Pol 18650 batteries, with a capacity of 2600. The total operating time from one charge is 1 hour and forty minutes.
After this time, the vacuum cleaner enters base search mode, which lasts up to 15 minutes. In general, the base is found with a probability of 50 to 100. My base is in the hall, so the vacuum cleaner from the kitchen does not always reach. I have to help. When searching, the turbine turns off and the brushes work 5 times slower. The speed does not change.
Battery indication. Charging lasts around 4 hours.
We tear off microfiber, as we see it rests on six plastic "Velcro".
The wheels are spring-loaded and have their own course, thanks to which the vacuum cleaner can climb onto the carpet, drive through an abandoned cable from the laptop, and due to tractor rubber it can easily move on wet surfaces and climb onto the carpet and other obstacles.
The front part of the vacuum cleaner is a bumper, under which shock sensors and IR sensors are located. If the vacuum cleaner sees a wall in front of it, then at 99% it will not reach it 2-3 cm, will turn around and continue the path. If the chair leg is in front of the nose, it will hit the bumper, drive back and go further according to the program.
On the sides there are three sensors that scan the surface for the test, I drove the vacuum cleaner onto the mezzanine, and it did not fall from it, but rode back and forth in a narrow line. It will be useful, for those who have a ladder in the house, the vacuum cleaner will not fall down. Also, these sensors turn off the vacuum cleaner when you raise it above the floor.
To gain access to the tightly installed garbage collection tray, you must press the back of the top cover hard.
Although there is only 20 watts of turbine power, but because of the practically tight connections, the garbage draws with a bang.
The reverse side with the HEPA filter is rubberized, due to which the turbine draws almost everything through the filter, and does not suck in air from under the cover.
A small handle is provided for carrying and unloading garbage.
A trifle, but quite useful is the curtain, which prevents garbage from falling out when the tray is removed.
A rather hairy dog lives at my place, so because of its wool, you have to clean the tray in the middle of cleaning, as the wool gets decent. Tray sizes.
After a cleaning cycle, I just rinse it under running water, after pouring garbage into a bucket.
A grid on which dust, wool and other debris settles.
More details curtain.
In order not to constantly tear microfiber, in one motion we snap off the plastic pad.
Microfiber cloth for wet cleaning.
The weight of the vacuum cleaner is 2 kilograms, the height, as I said, is 7.5 cm, and the diameter is 30.8 cm.
I'll tell you about cleaning. Home, (apartment of 60 squares) I arrive at about the same time, and a few minutes before the arrival of dust on a schedule begins cleaning. I’ll say how it is - if you leave him alone in the house, then most likely he will make a blunder, as he can leave the room in the room and then, say, into the kitchen. Therefore, such a cleaning algorithm has been developed.
To begin with, we find out about 2-3 days that it interferes with the normal operation of the vacuum cleaner, cable, charging wires lying on the floor, the bottom is not knocked out on the sofa, things are scattered and we eliminate the whole thing, as with ordinary cleaning. The vacuum cleaner is very stubborn and even if it gets stuck, it tries to leave until the last by different methods, but if it wraps on a brush, let's say charging, it pops up loudly three times and turns off. The same thing if stuck under something. My son’s room in one place of the sofa, the bottom popped out of the grooves, and the vacuum cleaner was joyfully stuck there, had to be put in place and there were no more problems.
Further, according to the timer set, the robot starts working in a large room (hall), at my arrival I either give it a final work there while changing clothes or sending it into the corridor. While the vacuum cleaner is working in the corridor, I conduct an inspection in the nursery, for the presence of a designer and other supermen, and chess on the floor. If everything is clean after 20 minutes we run into the nursery, we ourselves at this time have a meal.
After the meal, the dishes are in the dishwasher, and a vacuum cleaner arrives in the kitchen. I recommend that if there are animals in the house, empty the container, as there will be a lot of wool there, even with daily cleaning. In the kitchen, I don’t have carpets or carpeting, unlike the rest of the rooms, so we click the area with wet microfiber.
From the kitchen, the chairs were moved to the corridor, for a more thorough cleaning.
This is how our cleaner works every day, and it has become noticeably cleaner during weekly cleaning with a washing vacuum cleaner, less wool and dust.
As some examples of use - Saturday gatherings, pizza, beer, shrimp. While I went to accompany the guests, my wife put the dishes in the dishwasher and launched the robot, which put things in order after the guests in 20 minutes.
The child forgot something important and ran into the house in dirty shoes, leaving behind dried pieces of dirt, for 10 minutes the robot into the corridor, while we ourselves can not be distracted from our affairs or do nothing.
The main advantage of this vacuum cleaner is that it is cleaned every day helping to maintain cleanliness in the house. Here is the result of the passage of the room and the corridor, but at first glance this wool was not there.
And here are the fine dust particles that the mesh did not miss, even finer particles remained on the HEPA filter.
Perhaps I could have missed some point, but in the form of a review I tried to show and tell in full. I was not even too lazy to disassemble and see how this vacuum cleaner lives.
Unpacking, equipment appearance
Cleaning, management and charging
What's inside disassembly quick review
Cost The
price of Chuwi Ilife V5 at the moment is $ 98.89 ( * ), which at the level of competitors looks very attractive, especially considering the level of quality of this robot vacuum cleaner.
Instead of an epilogue
For the holidays, we are going to visit our parents for a week, and the wife’s first question sounded like this
“Will we take a dust?” Yes, it will not replace a full-fledged vacuum cleaner, yes it will not crawl into the narrow gaps between the legs of the table and a tightly standing cabinet, but instead of you it will do the work that needs to be allocated for 20-30 minutes every day, it will easily go to vacuum under the sofa, and not will fall from the mezzanine by rubbing dust there. Now two more such vacuum cleaners are traveling for New Year’s gifts, to two friends whose spouses were reckless to see this robot in action. I myself was skeptical about this puck, but after Saturday cleanup, I was pleasantly surprised how many times it became cleaner.
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Let's start with the characteristics of a vacuum cleaner.
Charging voltage: 110-240V
Operating voltage: 11.1V
Power: 20W
Noise: 55 dB
Diameter: 30 cm
Charging time: 200 - 280min
Operating time: 110 - 130min Garbage
tank capacity: 0.3 l
Modes: Auto, spiral, edges, daily cleaning
This package was probably the largest in the history of my purchases. I regretted that I did not take the tape to make pens or a bag.
Inside the box is another box, worthy of protection against possible damage. Chinese vacuum cleaner - the inscriptions, respectively, too.
The packaging was solid 5 points, thick cardboard, and even another, already the third protection in the form of a thick sheet of cardboard was inside the box.
Inside the box, in separate cells, there is such a package:
- robot cleaner
- charging base AC adapter for charging
- remote control + 2 batteries
- 2 spare rotating brushes
- container brush
- spare HEPA filter
- spare microfibre cloth for wet cleaning
- English user manual
I'll start with the docking station, which has two spring-loaded contacts for recharging the vacuum cleaner, and inside there are two IR LEDs through which the vacuum cleaner finds the docking station and is centered.
Evidence is given by 19 Volts and 0.6 Amperes for recharging the vacuum cleaner.
Accordingly, the same parameters have a network charger with a Chinese plug.
Spare brushes are included, but after two months of use, my brushes look completely alive. In the vastness of Ali, kits are sold, until you worry about the lack of consumables. The brushes are distinguished in the direction of rotation - left and right - of the logo L and R. There
should be cleanliness in everything, therefore we can use a brush like this to clean the container. Frankly, it’s corny in my closet, “Not useful” (C)
Spare microfiber cloth. One part has microfiber, the other is soft felt for attaching to platform plastic hooks. Stitched well, washable.
A separate plus is the presence of a HEPA filter, even the smallest particles of dust remain inside the vacuum cleaner. My filter is about once a week, the main thing is to let it dry well, and do not immediately insert it into the container.
The manufacturer did not regret for us even mini-finger batteries with an interesting name DureDay.
Remote Control. In principle, the most valuable thing in it is the ability to start cleaning, set the time for automatic cleaning and sending it to the base. My child often uses the arrow buttons and becomes the master of cleaning by controlling the vacuum cleaner where to go. The bottom three buttons - this is a spiral cleaning, return to recharge and around the perimeter of the room.
The remote control is equipped with two IR LEDs and works even if you "shoot" the vacuum cleaner in the back - since there are dust sensors on the back, there are also IR sensors.
Winter has not quite arrived in our area, and the puck is in place. According to the manufacturer, the main advantage of the vacuum cleaner is the height, which is 8 centimeters. This is very true for owners of low beds. The top cover opens, under it is a garbage container. The Clean button is touch-sensitive and starts the vacuum cleaner to work, or instead stops it.
You can not put the vacuum cleaner on the base, the manufacturer has provided for the possibility of "autonomous" charging.
The main part of the vacuum cleaner. In this configuration, namely with dressed microfiber, I run it under the beds and in the kitchen. On carpets it is better to unfasten. The brushes pick up the trash and dust in the yellow “mouth” that draws everything into the trash bin. Near the front wheel are two large platforms for charging. In my practice, the vacuum cleaner always got into the base.
This is how an advertising picture describes it.
But having removed the protective pad, we get to the batteries of the vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaner is powered by three li-Pol 18650 batteries, with a capacity of 2600. The total operating time from one charge is 1 hour and forty minutes.
After this time, the vacuum cleaner enters base search mode, which lasts up to 15 minutes. In general, the base is found with a probability of 50 to 100. My base is in the hall, so the vacuum cleaner from the kitchen does not always reach. I have to help. When searching, the turbine turns off and the brushes work 5 times slower. The speed does not change.
Battery indication. Charging lasts around 4 hours.
We tear off microfiber, as we see it rests on six plastic "Velcro".
The wheels are spring-loaded and have their own course, thanks to which the vacuum cleaner can climb onto the carpet, drive through an abandoned cable from the laptop, and due to tractor rubber it can easily move on wet surfaces and climb onto the carpet and other obstacles.
The front part of the vacuum cleaner is a bumper, under which shock sensors and IR sensors are located. If the vacuum cleaner sees a wall in front of it, then at 99% it will not reach it 2-3 cm, will turn around and continue the path. If the chair leg is in front of the nose, it will hit the bumper, drive back and go further according to the program.
On the sides there are three sensors that scan the surface for the test, I drove the vacuum cleaner onto the mezzanine, and it did not fall from it, but rode back and forth in a narrow line. It will be useful, for those who have a ladder in the house, the vacuum cleaner will not fall down. Also, these sensors turn off the vacuum cleaner when you raise it above the floor.
To gain access to the tightly installed garbage collection tray, you must press the back of the top cover hard.
Although there is only 20 watts of turbine power, but because of the practically tight connections, the garbage draws with a bang.
The reverse side with the HEPA filter is rubberized, due to which the turbine draws almost everything through the filter, and does not suck in air from under the cover.
A small handle is provided for carrying and unloading garbage.
A trifle, but quite useful is the curtain, which prevents garbage from falling out when the tray is removed.
A rather hairy dog lives at my place, so because of its wool, you have to clean the tray in the middle of cleaning, as the wool gets decent. Tray sizes.
After a cleaning cycle, I just rinse it under running water, after pouring garbage into a bucket.
A grid on which dust, wool and other debris settles.
More details curtain.
In order not to constantly tear microfiber, in one motion we snap off the plastic pad.
Microfiber cloth for wet cleaning.
The weight of the vacuum cleaner is 2 kilograms, the height, as I said, is 7.5 cm, and the diameter is 30.8 cm.
I'll tell you about cleaning. Home, (apartment of 60 squares) I arrive at about the same time, and a few minutes before the arrival of dust on a schedule begins cleaning. I’ll say how it is - if you leave him alone in the house, then most likely he will make a blunder, as he can leave the room in the room and then, say, into the kitchen. Therefore, such a cleaning algorithm has been developed.
To begin with, we find out about 2-3 days that it interferes with the normal operation of the vacuum cleaner, cable, charging wires lying on the floor, the bottom is not knocked out on the sofa, things are scattered and we eliminate the whole thing, as with ordinary cleaning. The vacuum cleaner is very stubborn and even if it gets stuck, it tries to leave until the last by different methods, but if it wraps on a brush, let's say charging, it pops up loudly three times and turns off. The same thing if stuck under something. My son’s room in one place of the sofa, the bottom popped out of the grooves, and the vacuum cleaner was joyfully stuck there, had to be put in place and there were no more problems.
Further, according to the timer set, the robot starts working in a large room (hall), at my arrival I either give it a final work there while changing clothes or sending it into the corridor. While the vacuum cleaner is working in the corridor, I conduct an inspection in the nursery, for the presence of a designer and other supermen, and chess on the floor. If everything is clean after 20 minutes we run into the nursery, we ourselves at this time have a meal.
After the meal, the dishes are in the dishwasher, and a vacuum cleaner arrives in the kitchen. I recommend that if there are animals in the house, empty the container, as there will be a lot of wool there, even with daily cleaning. In the kitchen, I don’t have carpets or carpeting, unlike the rest of the rooms, so we click the area with wet microfiber.
From the kitchen, the chairs were moved to the corridor, for a more thorough cleaning.
This is how our cleaner works every day, and it has become noticeably cleaner during weekly cleaning with a washing vacuum cleaner, less wool and dust.
As some examples of use - Saturday gatherings, pizza, beer, shrimp. While I went to accompany the guests, my wife put the dishes in the dishwasher and launched the robot, which put things in order after the guests in 20 minutes.
The child forgot something important and ran into the house in dirty shoes, leaving behind dried pieces of dirt, for 10 minutes the robot into the corridor, while we ourselves can not be distracted from our affairs or do nothing.
The main advantage of this vacuum cleaner is that it is cleaned every day helping to maintain cleanliness in the house. Here is the result of the passage of the room and the corridor, but at first glance this wool was not there.
And here are the fine dust particles that the mesh did not miss, even finer particles remained on the HEPA filter.
Perhaps I could have missed some point, but in the form of a review I tried to show and tell in full. I was not even too lazy to disassemble and see how this vacuum cleaner lives.
Unpacking, equipment appearance
Cleaning, management and charging
What's inside disassembly quick review
Cost The
price of Chuwi Ilife V5 at the moment is $ 98.89 ( * ), which at the level of competitors looks very attractive, especially considering the level of quality of this robot vacuum cleaner.
Instead of an epilogue
For the holidays, we are going to visit our parents for a week, and the wife’s first question sounded like this
“Will we take a dust?” Yes, it will not replace a full-fledged vacuum cleaner, yes it will not crawl into the narrow gaps between the legs of the table and a tightly standing cabinet, but instead of you it will do the work that needs to be allocated for 20-30 minutes every day, it will easily go to vacuum under the sofa, and not will fall from the mezzanine by rubbing dust there. Now two more such vacuum cleaners are traveling for New Year’s gifts, to two friends whose spouses were reckless to see this robot in action. I myself was skeptical about this puck, but after Saturday cleanup, I was pleasantly surprised how many times it became cleaner.
That's all, with you there was a simple service for choosing complex Dronk.Ru equipment .
Do not forget to subscribe to our blog , there will be many more interesting things.
ps * ref - you can return up to 5% of the purchase price by purchasing goods from these links.
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