Fix It and keep it

The Polaris 360 is powered by water jet that focus a jet of water of water on an internal impeller that is connected to a gearbox to drive the wheels on the Polaris 360. Similar water jets are used in the throat that picks up the leaves and debris in your pool. The Polaris 360 [...]

The Polaris 360 swimming pool cleaner has an inline backup valve that intermittently comes on to pull the Polaris in reverse just in case it gets stuck on something. The Polaris 360 will be in constant reverse if the inline backup valve gets stuck in the valve open position. When the valve opens it shoots [...]

One of the things you have to watch out for when you are using a Polaris pool cleaner with a long sponge tipped tail is the possibility of the tail getting sucked up along with pool debris. If you live in an area where there are trees near your pool where large debris can fall [...]

Last weekend I noticed the Polaris 360 going in wide circles on the bottom of the swimming pool. At first I thought one of the swivel joints was jamming preventing the 360 from moving in its normal random cleaning pattern. The joints turned out to be fine. What it turned out to be was a [...]

After two years of constant use my Polaris 360 just stopped moving. We had recently had a storm and the swimming pool bottom was covered with debris from the trees. The Polaris had been running around the bottom of the pool around thirty minutes before with no problem now it had just stopped. I checked [...]

On the Polaris 360 there is a pressure relief valve right where the water feed line connects to the swimming pool filter water supply. The pressure relief valve is there to let excessive pressure out before it gets to the Polaris 360 itself. My pressure regulator opens up at fifteen pounds or more to keep [...]

Keep your Polaris 360 swimming pool cleaner in top working order by fixing parts that break as they happen before they cause stress on other parts leading to other problems. I have had my Polaris 360 in my swimming pool now for over four years and it is still going strong because I always keep [...]