POOL BLASTER Max Cordless Pool Vacuum for Deep Cleaning & Strong Suction, Handheld Rechargeable Swimming Pool Cleaner for Inground and Above Ground Pools, Hoseless Pool Vac by Water Tech

Our home is in the Phoenix, AZ area and we experience Haboobs (dust storms). Our new pool was completed on July 1, 2023. The pool has an in floor popup cleaning system. While this sytem works well, it is incapable of removing the fine particles mainly because the finer particles get stuck in the low areas between the pebbles of the Pebble Tec flooring. The only way to remove the dust is to sweep the pool multiple times while the pool is running until you've stirred enough stuff up that it eventually gets sucked into the pool's filter system.On that note, I purchased this vacuum to see if I can reduce the amount of time needed to remove the dust from the pool after a Haboob. I also purchased, on the reviews of other's, the ultra fine filter liners. Firstly, the vacuum is simple to use. Honestly for me, the most difficult thing to on this product is plugging in the charger. It is oddly shaped and is a bit awkaward to get positively engagaed. The amount of suction created by the vacuum is enough to where the vaccum will stay engaged on the vertical walls. My pool/spa combo is ~15K gallons, and the battery lasted easily for its debut run while I didn't notice any reduction in power for the roughly 15 minutes it ran.First impressions. I was shocked by the amount of debris that was captured in the filter bag. I didn't even try to clean the fine filter liner bag. Five came in the package so I just pitched this one. The vacuum's filters did a good job at trapping at what I would condsider >90% of the silt. As some reviews commented you can see the ultra fine silt being blown back into the water, but the amount removed versus the amount bypassed is heavily weighed on the removed side making the total efficiency worth it.Longevity is an unknown at this point in time. I did have an issue with a rectangular piece of plastic that resides in the "foot" of the vacuum popping out and being captured in the filter bag. I am not sure what its purpose is, but probably not going to do anything in the grand scheme of things. I see the "foot" as being a consumable, but there is no part# listed in the manual, which, could make this a pita at a later date. Also, the main filter needs to be cleaned after use. In my case the fine filter bag liner took the abuse. The main filter was easily cleaned with the spray feature in the kitchen sink.In the end, this vacuum will easily reduce the time needed to remove the junk blown into the pool post a Haboob. My first impressions are positive and at this point in time I would recommend this widget.

I'm starting my second season with this fantastic tool. This works so much better than the traditional hose to skimmer basket vacuum. Two huge white pine trees are near my pool and I am plagued with needles all year and those little pine seeds in the early summer which, if they aren't immediately captured by the skimmer, sink to the bottom of the pool. One battery charge lasts a long time so I can make short work of cleaning my pool. One recommendation --- I use pool skimmer socks in my skimmer (which have trapped lots of gunk which would otherwise go through the filter). The first time I used the vacuum the inside of the bag was covered with this gunk and was hard to clean so I now put a pool sock inside the bag. It's amazing how much the pool socks capture. After hosing the large gunk off the pool socks I put them in the washing machine and reuse them many times.

Works great! Would have given it 5 stars except it died today. Used it 2 years here in Florida, which means every other day for at least 6 months of the year. It picked up algae, pine needles, oak leaves, bark, dirt, sand and everything my windy yard could dish out. Will no longer charge and I'm broken hearted.

Best electric/battery powered pool vacuum I’ve ever used. So much easier to set up and use than the cumbersome hose vacuum on my pump, and it’s leagues better than those older battery-powered vacuums that eat up D batteries. This baby is rechargeable, so plug it in for a 2-3 hours and it’ll be ready to use for several cleanings. It attaches to a standard size pool telescoping pole. If you don’t have one, I’d recommend getting that too. The vacuum comes with 2 different types of filter bags. One for leaves and larger debris, and one for finer particles like dirt, sand, and algae. They can be washed out and reused over and over. This vacuum actually works very well! It has good power behind it. It’s a bit more money to put down than I initially wanted, but it was well worth it. You get what you pay for with this one, so if you have a dirty pool bottom, and you’re on the fence about getting this vacuum, just get it. You’ll be glad you did.

Having read other reviews I thought I'd try this on our 15 foot by 20 foot in ground pool. The first thing I noticed after unpacking it was the small size of the collection bag, and the fairly narrow diameter of the nozzle - which suggested it wouldn't do well on any reasonably sized leaves. Even so I decided to use it after a dust storm to see how well it coped. The results were disappointing.First, the collection chamber is tiny - even if it had worked well, I would have had to empty the bag every few minutes. Second, it got stuck on quite small leaves, which blocked the intake and wedged open the small plastic return valve in the vacuum tube - meaning that when I took the vacuum out of the water and switched it off, a large amount of dirt and water came back out of the tube onto the pool surround. In operation, the unit is buoyant, which means you have to keep a downward pressure on the pole to keep it in touch with the bottom and sides of the pool. It was only truly effective for a few minutes, after which as the filter bag became clogged by dust particles, it started to leave large streaks across the pool bottom.As others noted, it has a weird connector for recharging which was difficult to use - but other than that first charge, it won't be an issue, because I'm unlikely to use it again. Given that I've already used it once, and the filter bag is full of gunk, I guess I can't return it. But if I could, I would. I would not advise anyone to buy this unit. Save your money and go with a bigger, more capable unit.This might be OK for a small above ground pool, or a spa. For an in ground pool of any size, it's really not workable.