Preparing The Room For A Cleaning Run; Using Your Robot; Starting And Stopping; Operating The Docking Station - Philips FC8972 Manual Del Usuario

Note: The robot only searches for the docking station automatically when it started cleaning from the
docking station.
Charging directly from the mains
1 Press the power switch to switch on the robot.
2 Insert the small plug of the adapter into the socket on the robot (1). Insert the adapter into a wall
socket (2) (Fig. 18).
3 When the robot is connected to the mains correctly, the start/stop button starts flashing very
slowly. This indicates that the robot is charging.
4 When the rechargeable battery is fully charged, the start/stop button lights up continuously.

Preparing the room for a cleaning run

Before you start the robot on its cleaning run, make sure that you remove all loose and fragile objects
from the floor (Fig. 19).
Also remove all cables, wires and cords from the floor.

Using your robot

Starting and stopping

1 Press the start/stop button.
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You can press the start/stop button on the robot (Fig. 20).
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You can also press the start/stop button on the remote control (Fig. 21).
2 The start/stop button is continuously on and the robot starts cleaning (Fig. 22).
3 The robot cleans in the auto-cleaning mode until its battery runs low. In the auto-cleaning mode, it
follows repeated sequences of Z-pattern, random, wall-following and spot-cleaning patterns (Fig.
23).
Note: To select an individual mode, press one of the mode buttons on the remote control. See
section 'Cleaning mode selection' for more details.
4 When the battery runs low, the start/stop button starts flashing and the robot searches for the
docking station to recharge (Fig. 17).
5 You can also press the start/stop button to interrupt or stop the cleaning run. If you press the
start/stop button again and there is still enough energy in the rechargeable battery, the robot
continues cleaning in the auto-cleaning mode.
6 To make the robot return to the docking station before the rechargeable battery runs low, press the
docking button on the remote control (Fig. 24).
The start/stop button starts flashing and the robot searches for the docking station (Fig. 25).
Note: If you did not start the robot from the docking station, it does not search for the docking
station automatically when the rechargeable battery runs low. If there is still enough energy in the
rechargeable battery, you can press the docking button on the remote control to make the robot
return to the docking station. If the rechargeable battery is completely empty, you have to place
the robot on the docking station manually.

Operating the docking station

The docking station has two controls that can be used to operate the robot.
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