Swimming Pool Tips and Reviews: Polaris 8050 Sport Robotic Pool Cleaner

This is the all new Polaris 8050 Sport Robotic Pool Cleaner. The Polaris 8050 Sport is part of Zodiacs Trade Series Products which means that is only sold at your local brick and mortar pool store and is not sold online. But the Polaris 8050 is well worth a drive to your local pool store to purchase.

It features Cyclonic Vacuum Technology. To put it simply the Polaris 8050 really sucks in the dirt and debris at an amazing rate. It has a very easy to empty debris chamber and a very easy to use control panel. The large handle on top allows you to easily drop it in your pool and retrieve it when it is done cleaning. It is also backed by a two year manufacturer warranty.

I am not sure what the retail price point will be once it hits stores in January of 2017, but I would say it will sell for $1,000 to $1,100.

This is very different cleaner from the Polaris 9450 Sport and 9550 Sport. The Polaris 8050 cleans the pool in a different fashion. It can be set to clean the floor only or the floor, walls and waterline. It moves very rapidly on the bottom, and the Cyclonic Vacuum

Technology easily sucks up dirt and debris so the cleaner doesn't scatter it all over the place. It will also pause for as long as 20 seconds to readjust the cleaning pattern. This is a design feature that allows the Polaris 8050 Sport to clean your pool in the most efficient pattern.

It is programmed to get unstuck from any main drains and if it is up against the step areas, it will reverse itself and back out of any areas that would trap it. In my testing if the Polaris 8025 drove right over the main drain, it would always find a way to get off of it and move back onto the pool floor. The tracks also have a shield around them so if it runs into a large obstacle on the pool bottom, the side shields will keep the tracks from being dislodged.

It has the look and style of an old school robotic cleaner, and this actually makes it more effective. It won't turn over onto its side and the solid square build of the cleaner will allow it to stay balanced when it hits a pool corner or is coming down off of the step area. It is not as pretty as the Polaris 9000 series cleaners, but it is no less effective.

It comes with a premium caddy, which is very well built and sturdy. The control Panel clips right into the top of the caddy and the cleaner sits very nicely onto it. The Control panel is very easy to use and there are only 3 buttons on it. I really like the simple control panel of the Polaris 8050 Sport.

The first button is the Surface Control System (SCS) which you can set for your particular pool surface. It comes factory default set at “3” but you can simply raise or lower it at a push of the button. Once you set the SCS for your pool, the selection will stay in the control panel's memory. Set it at “1” for a rough surface pool like Pebble Tec. Set it at “2” for a plaster or gunite pool. Set it at “3” for a Fiberglass or Tile pool and set it at “4” for a vinyl pool. Now the Polaris 8050 Sport will climb the walls and clean them for your specific pool type.

Then there is the Start/Stop button. This is how you turn the cleaner on and you can turn it off also at any time during the cleaning cycle.

The next buttons control how you want the cleaner to work in your pool. It can be set to clean the floors only up the coves in your pool, or it can be set to clean the floors, walls and tile line. For floor only the cleaner will run for 1 ½ hours. For floor, walls and tile line it will run for 2 hours. That is all the time the Polaris 8050 needs as it moves rapidly around your pool.

The Polaris 8050 Sport is designed for a small, medium or large pool. The cleaner comes standard with 50 feet of cord so if you set the cleaner up directly in the middle of your pool it should be suitable for most pools. It is also designed to clean all pool surface types and is safe for all pool surface types.

The Polaris 8050 Sport is driven by the tracks on the side of the cleaner and also has two pleated scrub brushes on the front and back of the cleaner. Nothing innovative about this, but the track drive system is very reliable and suits this cleaner very well.

One of the best features is the easy access debris chamber. Just a push of a button releases the chamber and it is very easy to clean and reinsert. The Debris chamber also traps dirt as well as leaves and debris. It has a decent capacity and didn't fill up in my testing.

To get you to shop at your local pool store Polaris is offering you a two year warranty on the Polaris 8050 Sport. In some cases, like this one, it pays to shop at your local pool store and at the same time you are supporting your local retail business. Buying everything online has it's advantages, but in the case of the Polaris 8050 Sport it is worth the drive to your local pool store.

The Polaris 8050 Sport is loaded with great features and it is worth looking at if you are in the market for a robotic pool cleaner.

To learn more you can visit Polaris:

http://www.polarispool.com/en/products/robotic

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Polaris 8050 Sport Robotic Pool Cleaner

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