Baracuda G3 W03000 Advanced Suction Side Automatic Pool Cleaner

This thing works like a champ! Like a few other reviewers mentioned the set up instructions are really bad, I had to use a youtube video to figure it out. I put the weight on the first piece of hose line nearest the Barracuda, it worked to keep it on the bottom of the pool. I have a dedicated hose line that was supposed to be for a pool cleaner, suction wasn't enough, so used the skimmer one, and it works perfectly. Once you figure out how to set it up, its super easy and it worked the 2nd time (post youtube tutorial). So far, I am very happy with its performance. It sucks up everything.

This was a replacement for the same model that I had. I knew how to put it together. The extension from the hose into my suction port would not stay in the hose so I eliminated it and it works fine. For those who are not aware, the suction indicator is there for you to change the valves on the pool lines properly. You can NOT alter the setting from this devise.

Works as expected. I have a 27' round pool. Works fine. The last 2 I have had a re junk. This one fits the bill.Only issue, which is mine is keeping the G3 Connected to the hose. It blows off most times when priming it. Need someone strong I guess to connect it! 😉

The only reason I didn't give this 5 stars is because the installation directions are **it! I have a small pool, so I initially installed using the side vacuum port and only enough hose to reach the farthest part of the pool, but it kept getting stuck around the vacuum port and wouldn't traverse the entire pool. Also, the instructions show the weight on the second section of hose, which did not work. Ultimately, I used the entire hose sections attached to the skimmer (hat tip to youtube), and moved the weight to the first hose section near the vacuum body. This worked perfectly and I got coverage over the entire pool, to include the side walls. However, it would not climb the top two of the four steps, but I don't see this as a problem. Overall, the vacuum is great, but you might as well throw the instructions away and use the Internet to find out how to properly install the unit.

I'm a 12 year pool technician. I've used Kreepy Krauly for years on my own pool. This one is better in that it doesn't get hung up much due to the raised edges on the seal.

I recently purchased this to replace another automatic cleaner by this same company. The other one had the treads, gears, wheels etc. and would last about a year of full-time use before something would break. It would also get stuck on steps and I was always rescuing it.This new cleaner is very simple - it really only has one moving part, so I anticipate when it wears out, it'll be much easier to replace it. It also doesn't get stuck on my steps, and it will actually go up on them and clean them. Another cool thing: I have a variable-speed pump, and found that this cleaner works better at much slower speeds than what the other cleaner needed. This is saving me a lot of money on electricity (why I got a variable-speed pump in the first place.)I leave it connected full time and it's running about 15 hours a day. I'll update this review after I get a full Phoenix summer on it and see how it wears over time.

UPDATE: Well, I spoke too soon because the very next day the thing stopped moving and my pool pump lost prime to such an extreme it took hours to get it going again. There doesn't appear to be anything stuck in it and suction is happening, but it doesn't move and doesn't even make the annoying bipbipbipbip. I downloaded and printed the manual (which wasn't included in the box) and it told me there was a quick release cassette but didn't tell me where it was. I deduced from the drawing the general location but couldn't get anything to twist or unscrew. So much for quick release. Went over and turned off the pump and zoom! Out the hose flew from the wall just as it had been doing—along with a hoseful of leaves it had sucked up. So I can't travel even for a day without expecting to come home to a burned-out pool pump and am sending it back. Happily Amazon made the return easy._____I was losing my mind trying to get this thing to stop hopping up onto the swim outs and this shallow walk-in area. Plus it constantly got hung up on the vacuum wall connection, sucking air and causing my filter to lose prime. AND when the filter shut off the Barracuda hose would shoot out of the vac. connection into the pool. It also was spending all its time doing the walls and not the floor where all the leaves are.There was NO MANUAL included in my box, just a quick-start guide, so I talked to customer support with no success. I already had a VAC-LOK connection and I had already attached the weight to the first section of the hose. Turning down my pressure 50% didn't help either. I tried taking two lengths off the hose but put one back because it wouldn't reach to the other side.Back this thing was going because I travel for weeks at a time and can't have my pump burning out because it has lost prime.THEN SUDDENLY I got a brainstorm to take one section of my old Hayward Navigator hose, fill it with water, loop it through the black steering-wheel thing on the top of the Barracuda and put the whole thing in the water (don't ask me what inspired me to try this). I also took off the 45-degree angle fitting that came with the Barracuda and plugged the hose directly into my vacuum port. Amazingly it hasn't hopped up, gotten stuck or shot off the wall since! I watch it go over the vacuum connection, change its mind and go away without sticking. It climbs up to the swim-outs and walk-in but then goes back down without getting on it. I have enclosed a couple of photos showing my pool set up and how I rigged this hose thing to the Barracuda.The one thing I still hate is the noise it makes…a constant bibbipbipbip which, in addition to the sound of the filter pump, makes sitting outside near the pool in daylight hours (when I have to run the pump to get solar heat) an annoyingly noisy affair. And being in the pool with it gives me a headache. At least the Navigator was quiet.BUT unlike the Hayward Navigator, it has very few parts and I am so sick of dealing with Hayward equipment which seems to be built to break and designed to be tough for owners to repair themselves and the parts are ridiculously expensive for what they are. Plus terrible/no documentation.So for now this Barracuda is staying despite the noise and I will come back and update this space if I have to return the product.

BEST pool device we've used! We had one previously but a local Pool Supply Store told my wife parts were no longer available and sold her a Hayward Navigator, which was TERRIBLE. Now we're back and this Barracuda G3 works great on Pebble-Tec. It is a night and day difference. AWESOME!!!