POOL BLASTERLeaf Vac Cordless Hoseless Pool Leaf Vacuum & Skimmer, Battery-Powered Swimming Pool Leaf Catcher with Heavy Duty Mesh Bag, for Inground and Above Ground Pools, by Water Tech

I had read many reviews AFTER I purchased, as I looked at the complaints, I became quite concerned. Happily after I recieved it, I went straight out and used it, and happily those negative reviews only told me, folks were more oblivious to proper steps and use of this product.1st, if you look at the battery secure pocket, the seal is not really suitable for under water, so after installing batteries, it's only common sense to me to then take a sandwich sized zip lock and carefully wrap and seal the unit, then carefully insert battery pack into pocket, it fits tight and sealed battery pack famously, then replace the pocket's cover, not one part of my pack got wet, not even a little. Common sense!2nd, this unit is being used against the force of water, so if you are impatient and try to force this unit to hurry up and clean, well when it breaks, that's on you, you cannot and should not man-handle it, again common sense!3rd, I noticed that the deeper the unit went, and my inground pool is 8 foot, the deeper it went, the slower the fan seemed to have spun, which in turn spends the batteries faster as I'm guessing the depth of the pool made the unit work harder, but the unit with patients worked perfectly, it picked up leaves, twigs, bugs, dust, we had it covered for the mississippi winter, the tarp we used collapsed when we took it out a couple months ago, thus dropping alot of debris into pool, with continuous, unsuccessful attempts with the pool net and even our pool robot vacuum, the effort we put into cleaning it up took a toll. This bad boy cleaned it completely up in no time at all, Thank you God!!Lastly, as this is a unit I absolutely plan to use regularly once I get the pool set for summer use, I went ahead a bought rechargeable batteries with the charging unit, this will save you a bunch of time and money, as the seller stated you get on average about 3 hours out of these batteries, I got maybe 2.On the whole, and as you have to make a determination yourself, but the horror stories I found in these reviews were none of what I experienced, not even close, I absolutely would encourage you to give this product a try, thankyou for reading my review.

When I bought the Pool Blaster I had my doubts about its' ability pick up large size leaves and other debris because of what I perceived to be a slow turning propeller. I just wondered how it could have enough sucking power to get the job done. However, when I put it through the test it came out with flying colors. Not only did it pick up large oak leaves with ease, it also vacuumed up sweet gum balls! I was most pleasantly surprised and pleased.I use to use a leaf vacuum that connected to a garden hose and, while it worked well, the hose was difficult to manage especially in cold weather. The Pool Blaster is SO much easier to use because it runs on batteries and is much lighter than the models using a hose.I opted for the Blaster that runs of AA batteries due to the lower price. I figured for the difference between the battery model and the rechargeable model I could purchase a bunch of AA's.

One manufacturing problem, the on off switch doesn't work. Press it 4, 5, 8 times and maybe it will turn off the motor. I removed the switch, by removing one screw, and just moving the leads to the switch is enough to turn the motor on. Clearly the switch is defective. So even when it's turned off, the leads can switch on and allows the motor to turn on again. The only way to ensure that the motor is turned off is to detach the batteries. Given that there's some serious torque on that motor, it should probably fail safe. It doesn't. I got it turned off, left it outside, and 5 minutes later it had turned itself back on again.Which leads us to the next problem. I suppose I should have looked more closely before I bought it, but the device runs on 8 AA batteries. This isn't a very big supply of electricity. I had a big problem with a large quantity of leaves on the floor of the pool. It's going to take a lot of time, well it would if I could trust it to work correctly. I don't think 8 AA batteries are going to do that job. Which means replacing them a couple of times. I'd rather have had a rechargeable lithium battery in the device that could be recharged with out disassembly. Would be nice if it was an add on. Like a battery and charger that could be installed if you purchased it separately.Finally, I did use it a couple of times and it was not horrible, but bringing it up out of the water, it was easy, very easy to lose the bag, and have it sink to the bottom of the pool, which in my case meant fishing for it, because I can't see the bottom of my pool at the deep end. A couple of floats on the bag, to make it just slightly positively buoyant would mean if the bag got detached, it would have a chance of floating up. I realize this might cause problems getting the device to the bottom of the pool so it would have to be just enough buoyancy to raise the bag, but not hold the device up. Maybe a couple of ping pong balls in the bag might be enough to keep it from sinking like a rock.The big problem right now is that the switch is defective. It fails on, so the device is useable, but not in my opinion very safe.