Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

http://gizmodo.com/345918/dyson-dc24-vac-sir-james-brings-his-ball-back

Two models, one small, one large :-

DC24
http://www.dyson.co.uk/store/product.asp?product=DC24-ALLFLOORS

DC25
http://www.dyson.co.uk/store/product.asp?product=DC25-ALLFLOORS

Dyson Ltd
17 January 2008
 
 
 Concentrated Technology
 
 The next generation of Dyson vacuum cleaners are mini yet mighty
 
 
The engineering challenge:
Dyson engineers have developed a new range of compact
cleaners, Dyson Baby and Dyson Ball, with the all-round performance of full-size
Dyson machines. Ideal for the UK's shrinking homes with limited space and
storage:
 
The UK has more, smaller households than ever before. A combination of an
increase in population, a decrease in the number of people per household (more
people choosing to live alone), an aging population and more people moving to
the UK all add to the squeeze.
 
 •The UK has the smallest houses per square metre than the rest of Europe.
 •Europe build houses of an average 100 sq m
 •The UK squeeze houses into just 76 sq m
 •Britain's smallest house is in Conwy, Wales. The one up - one down is
 just 3.05m by 1.8m
 •The smallest flat went on sale for £170,000, an 11ft by 7ft space in
 Chelsea, London
 •Since 1980, UK house prices have increased by 676%
 
 
Compact and lightweight:
 
DC24 Dyson Ball is a small, slim, lightweight upright that sits on a ball.
 
Conventional cleaners with fixed wheels can only move in straight lines; they're
not designed to steer. But the new Dyson DC24 sits on a ball and turns with
ease.
 
Dyson engineers have replaced wheels with a ball to give DC24 greater
manoeuvrability. The motor sits inside the ball, making it lighter in hand and
even easier to steer. With the turn of the wrist DC24 responds by swivelling its
head to nip around obstacles like furniture, children and pets around the home.
 
DC24 compresses by one-third of its height when it's not in use so it's easy to
store. Its motorised brush-bar captures even ground-in dirt and pet hair, so it
has the all-round cleaning performance of a full-size Dyson.
 
 
DC22 Dyson Baby is a compact cylinder, one-third smaller than other Dyson
cylinders.
 
Its telescopic wand packs down and its hose wraps neatly around its body for
tidy storage.
 
Baby uses the most advanced Dyson cyclone technology to capture more microscopic
dust than any other cyclone.
 
Like all Dyson machines, Dyson Baby doesn't rely on bags or filters to capture
all the dust. Instead patented Root CycloneTM technology spins dirt from the
airflow, so it doesn't lose suction.
 
Dyson engineers have taken this technology one stage further and developed core
separator technology to capture even more microscopic dirt. Dirt now goes
through three stages of separation:
 
 1. Firstly, dirt is drawn into a powerful outer cyclone. Centrifugal forces
 fling larger debris such as, pet hair and dust particles into the clear bin
 at 500Gs (the maximum G-Force the human body can take is 8Gs).
 2. A further cyclonic stage, the core separator, then removes dust particles as
 small as 0.5 microns from the airflow; particles so small you could fit 200
 of them on this full stop.
 3. Finally, a cluster of smaller, even faster cyclones generate centrifugal
 forces of up to 150,000G - extracting particles as small as mould and
 bacteria.
 
Hygienic and allergy friendly: Both machines have a trigger bin-emptying system.
This means with the press of a button, all the dust and dirt can be emptied
directly into the bin.
 
All Dyson machines are approved by the British Allergy Foundation. The air
emitted from a Dyson vacuum cleaner has up to 150 times less bacteria, mould and
allergens than the room's ambient air. Clean and allergy friendly.
 
Robust: They may be compact, but they are tough. Dyson engineers have put these
vacuum cleaners through their paces to make sure they are up to the most
rigorous cleaning challenge. Not only are they made from the toughest materials
(the bin is made from the same material as riot shields) - they have been
dropped down stairs and rolled over 1,000 miles (1,600km) - that's as far as
London to Helsinki as the crow flies.
 
No bags, no extra costs: Unlike bagged vacuums which keep costing, Dyson
machines have no bags - and come with lifetime washable filters - so no extra
running costs.
 
 
 ends
 
 
For further information please contact the Dyson Press Office
laura.brock@dyson.com 020 7833 8244
 
 
 
Notes to editors:
 
Instore from 1 March 2008
 
Stockist details can be found at www.dyson.co.uk or call 0800 279 5127

Hi M00seUK

A bit of a surprise from Dyson!  I didn't expect the ball to be used in 2 vacs in one go, 3 launches in one go.  I see they don't class the DC18 in with the rest of the 'Ball' family!  DC24 looks like a replacement for the DC18 slim!  Again no mention of the DDM in both of the DC24 or DC25 and no use of the Core Cyclone Technology!  HEPA standard on the DC24!  The DC24 do not mention motor watts but has the smae airwatts as the DC25 both 220 AW.   Looks like the post motor filter is in the ball it's self this time!

DC18

Wow, I never saw this coming.  I had hoped they would redo the Ball design sometime, but I didn't think it would be this soon!  The Gizmodo site shows the price in dollars so I assume they will also be brought here.  Wish they had incorporated Level 3 technology and the DDM into these models, though, but hey, you can't have everything at once.

What I see both of them DO have is the much-needed center suction channel in the nozzle...take that, DC15 haters!

Again, I just love the fact that these new models are even better.  One of these days (and I predict in the near future), all of these improvements will come back to bite those dead-set against Dyson in the rear end, in a very BIG way.  They will have nothing to go against anymore; it will be funny about 10 years from now when we will still see the same old drivel about the DC07/14's poor performance, or how the DC15 can't hold a piece of paper to the nozzle ;-)

DC18 wrote:

Hi DC18,
It's a little frustrating not to be able to see the finer details! You could be right re: post motor filter. It appears that they've further refined the construction of 'The Ball' arrangement, which will hopefully mean that they can maintain a lower price point. Good to see the smaller / lighter version too.

Hi M00seUK

It is frustrating but there is some detail on the web. Click on explore features on the DC24 or DC25 and it gives you a inside exploded shot of the new ball setup on these models!

I have to say the price points on them are very good with the DC24 being cheaper than the DC18 and the DC25 the same price!

Seems there is no offical launch on these!?

DC18

We now have the two...

Acerone wrote:
I saw your message and checked the Dyson website now, glad to see they updated their pages.  Now the question is, when will we ever see the DDM?  If not, I wonder if a DC12 or 22 can be imported here from Japan?  Even though Japan has different voltage (IIRC even less than the US, 100 volts or something like that), I was told it's just a matter of switching the DDM's control board out with one that *will* work.  But then that also adds the question on where and how to get a hold of one, and since DDM technology isn't currently in the US...

Both the DC24 and 25 look very tempting, and they're priced less than the DC15 which surprised me.  Assuming that both are improvements over the DC15 (which I hope they are), I wonder if prospective customers will know that they are better?

Hello,

I took some screen captures of the DC24 being demonstrated on Gizmodo.com and one enlarged, "exploded view" of the ball/housing.  The image hosting site I used removed some quality of the photos and so there not as good as I hoped.  View here.      DIB

  < It seems easy for Dyson to get good press.  More.

Doh! 'Beat me, I was just about to post the same image! It's the first that gives you an idea of it's size.
It's interesting to see the way PR works in this web world. For their video, Gizmodo much have had a hands-on with the machine at least a few days before the launch embargo.

I don't know about others but I'm guessing that the test team at Consumer Reports can't wait to get the DC24 and 25 in its sights.  It should be very interesting. 

CR has taken dyson head on for producing high priced vacuum products with more sizzle than substance.  The mommie and baby ball's precursors [the Ball DC15 and Slim DC18] are not among CR's favorites.  Quite the contrary.  The DC15 gets a poor rating for pet hair pick up and is called a waste of consumers' $500 by CR.  The DC18 Slim is heckled by CR in favor of the much better time tested $60 HOOVER Tempo.  Jaydee's new generation of mommie and baby ball vacuums are destined to be scrutinized closely by CR for function and performance.    Count on it.  Quite possibly as a result of the CR reviews the mommie and baby ball uprights could well be the laughing stock of the industry in the USA.  And win a reputation for jaydee as a brilliant inventor who can't tie his own shoes.

Carmine D.