The reason that the roomba 650 gets stuck on black carpet or floors is that it is perceiving it as a cliff.
Roomba wont vacume black carpet.
Thing is on dark colored rugs the roomba will think it s about to fall and it will shut down.
Read on to find out.
Roomba avoids black color pattern on rugs.
Solutions to the roomba black.
Turn the roomba upside down and there will be 5 clear windows around the front on the bottom.
Here is the location of the cliff sensors on various models.
Things the other series has and more.
The reason that the roomba 980 gets stuck on black carpet or floors is because it is perceiving it as a cliff.
Those are the cliff sensors.
The edge sensors need to be disabled with a reflective surface.
They would stop at the edge of the black and change direction as if they detected a step or ledge.
When the roomba is used on black carpets it thinks it s a cliff so the robot would not go past it.
The edge sensors need to be disables with a re.
This vacuum does the job until it is completed.
Roomba does not go well with black or dark patterns on carpet.
Irobot roomba 980 robot vacuum for carpet.
It will just bounce back and forth around the dark patterns.
Many roombas will struggle to clean a rug that is black or has patterns.
I contacted irobot customer support.
Will a roomba still work in your house if you have black carpet.
Your roomba will act confused and start going back and forth as it tries to get away from the black or very dark carpet in order to keep itself from danger.
I found this out after buying a large black area rug.
After going through some research it is safe to say that the 900 series of the irobot roomba robot vacuums are probably the best irobot products because they seem to have all the good stuff.
All irobot roomba models have this issue.
Therefore when the roomba rolls over a black dark carpet or border it interrupts the absence of reflected infrared light as a cliff.
I have two roomba discoveries and niether one of them would roll over black color lines in any of my area rugs.
Fix if your having issues with roomba transitioning to carpets.