Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

Product details:-

• Motor goes at 106,000rpm 'three times faster than any other motor'
• 200 watt motor
• 65/38 air watts (switchable power??)
• £129.99 GBP RRP, powered brush version £149.99

I think the devil will be in the other details, as we learn them. Presumably it's using the Dyson Digital motor? From the photo, the collection bin looks slightly deeper and has a more prominent release switch. It has improved max suction (DC16 has 36 air watts) so I'm presuming (nay hoping) that it can run in standard mode for more than 5mins and switch to a 'turbo' mode as needed?

I have prefectly good DC16, but I could be tempted by something with a longer run time and twice the already impresive suction for car cleaning.

HS:

Ye of little faith.  What part of the story would you like me to prove?

Carmine D.

BTW, AAPT stands for American Association of Physics Teachers.  My illustrious science career did not end with HS.  In college, my Professor was Dr. Charles Pine, also deceased, and equally as reknown as Dr. Lerner.  Believe it or not, before the vacuum business, I had plans to be a scientist, thanks to the likes of Dr.'s Lerner and Pine.    Dr. Lerner said and wrote about me:  The "world hath need of thee."  Little did we both know at the time it would be the vacuum world.

Carmine D.

HI CARMNE

$200 for a cordless 5 min hand vac.....thats the price of a brand new oreck upr that will last many years to come....oustanding reliability.

1-2 min use per charge hr for $200..seriously? you have time to clean up one spilled ashtray..then its dormant for another 5 hrs..not practical

nor is it money well  spent .....reguardless of what it can do 'its not going to do it  for more than 5 min .  its place is on the shelf of a collector....

it will remain in a cordless/class all its own.....winner....the best $200  5 min hand vac ...category.  or wait till this time next year and get them at big lots

2 or 3 for the cost of one now ...thats  10-15min  combined use and this way you can have time to properly clean up the whole mess....not half now half later.

turtle1

Hello 'turtle1'

I understand from collectors that 3 or more of an item is considered a 'collection' and the owner a 'collector.'  Surely a 5 minute charge, requiring 3-5 hours to achieve, is reason enough not to pull a DC16 out for any clean up job.  So anyone with 3 or more dyson DC16's MUST be a collector with a collection. 

Carmine D

Wrong again.  But a good laugh. 

A love and thirst for science that was transferred and imputed to a love and knowledge of vacuum cleaners [and I will add a vacuum business and consulting profession in the industry].  The latter is getting things done.  If you don't apply the advancements in science to business and technology, it is worthless.  If you haven't read already, and I'd bet you didn't, read the link that Severus posted on the dustbuster.  Then compare to James'  DC16.  After 30 years the dustbuster is still going stron and sold over 100 MILLION units.  The DC16 is DOA.

Carmine D.

Hello Severus:

I agree.  During start up and shut down bagless cyclones have fine dust/dirt lodging in the openings w/o passing into the dirt bin.  Especially if users start right into cleanup after startup.  Tho, I have not seen the warnings, it would behoove cyclonic bagless brand makers to advise users to allow a brief run time after start up and before cleanup begins.  Conversely the same is true with shut down.  Allow a brief run time to get all the dust and dirt through the cyclones before shut down.

Carmine D.

Son of a gun.  What a coincidence, I do too.  I picked them up at yardsales last weekend for $5 each. 

Hello 'turtle1'

More like dyson science misapplied.

Carmine D.