MOW-E's first day at work - Parkus Interruptus

A week ago everything was ready to go. The automower 305 arrived and spent the night charging up in his dock in our living room.

Due to the shape of our lawn i decided to place the dock outside of the perimeter cable although Husqvarna advises against it. I (and my wife) were unwilling to place the mower onto the grass and always imagined the dock to be hidden away either under a bush our somewhere on the perimeter of our lawn. 

I placed the cable as shown in red - although the manual tells you not to do it - it worked just fine anyway

Since i had about 2-3 meters of extra perimeter cable left, i decided to place it underneath the dock so that it would keep dry and protected from the elements. I did not realize that placing it under the dock would create problems later on.

Of course I had to take a short video of MOW-Es first "steps":

So I sat on the porch with a beer and watched MOW-E do his job. It's really fascinating to see him go trundle back and forth across the lawn - relentless just like WALL-E in the movie : ) I was pretty satisfied.

After about 50 minutes the mower turned off the blades and slowly turned back on his way along the search cable back to the docking station. He then tried to enter the dock but always stopped approximately 10 centimeters short of docking. He tried this about 4 or 5 times until i manually stopped the mower.

I then realized that the extra cable underneath the dock interfered with the mower. Once i had this removed, he was able to find the dock without any problems. So make sure you place any extra perimeter cable to the SIDE and BEHIND the dock.