How to Modify Cliff Sensors so they never signal a cliff

ID: 139456

Description: I live in the country with Dogs, Cats, Dirt,...

Steps:

  1. Roomba Disassembly Instruction
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  2. The sensor is easily disassembled by lifting the two small plastic latches on the side. Once the cover is removed you could clean the sensor and replace it....
  3. Since I'm very tired of Error-6 messages and will not be adding stairs to my dirty house I opted to alter the sensor so that it will never detect a cliff falsely or otherwise.
  4. These sensors work by emitting an IR light from one side and since there are baffles in the sensor it must bounce off a floor to reach the detector in the other side.
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  5. THIS STEP CANNOT BE UNDONE.
  6. I removed the baffles from the sensor so that the detector and emitter have a direct line of sight to each other
  7. I used a small pair of wire cutters to cut out the baffles as needed
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  8. I put the Roomba back together and it cleaned until the battery was dead... For the first time in months...
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