Comprehensive overview of a 1-month Husqvarna 550 EPOS operations (& comparisons with the 450X)

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Hi there!
This video update discusses my experience operating Husqvarna 550 EPOS Automower for a month on my hectare-wide (~2.5 acres) property, including both open areas and a park forrest. All opinions in the video are based on the operation experience on my property, and you may get different results on your land.

In this video, I discuss three topic areas for the mower:
1) Primary errors that it experiences
2) User experience from my own perspective
3) Mowing performance on my land.
I also explain the backstory for purchasing this model, the technology behind the Automower EPOS solution, and compare everything to the old boundary-wire-based 450X Automower solution (which is still working in parallel on my property). In addition, I will take you on a tour in my garden to review the installation in the park forrest and share some fun clips from the mowers in trouble. Hopefully, these are helpful in identifying, what could be the most probable problems on your own property, if you plan to purchase 550.

Here is the exact timetable for the video:
00:00 Intro
02:05 EPOS installation and property overview (with drawings)
04:36 Technology overview for EPOS solution (with drawings)
06:48 Primary errors (550)
11:51 Primary errors (450X)
13:28 User experience/operations (550)
15:36 User experience/operations (450X)
16:33 Mowing performance of 450X
18:19 Mowing performance of 550
19:45 Combined performance
20:47 How does the lawn look like now?
25:01 Garden tour to Park Forrest
28:32 Stay-out / cut-out zones
29:17 Charging station area and reference station
30:45 Front yard review
32:14 Dandelion season performance and ugly corner test
34:04 450X in trouble
35:31 550 in trouble (with some work statistics at 40:31)
44:52 Troubles that I have created
46:03 Thank you and plans for updates

The link to the original installation video is here:
   • My journey with Husqvarna Automower 5...  

...and the follow-up video will come after the end of the mowing season in September. There, I will cover the performance optimization, give updates on my success in installing the beach access work area behind the trees, and review the statistics over the whole mowing season!


Thank you so much for watching!
I wish you all the best, and take care!! :)