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procare
  
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Re: Kirby Sentria
Reply #22 Apr 5, 2010 3:31 pm |
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Hertz,      Any honest repairman will tell you the only difference between Sentria and any other G series is not the suction but trim , bags, electronic switch for attachments and LED circuit board for headlight and brushrolls. The belt for power drive changed in 2005. The armature and fiield coils, and everything else in the motor is the same. No change in perfornance. I have worked on and checked all the G series and found no difference in suction.                                                                                                                                                                                             Procare                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Â
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CarmineD
   
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Re: Kirby Sentria
Reply #23 Apr 6, 2010 3:27 am |
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Hertz,      Any honest repairman will tell you the only difference between Sentria and any other G series is not the suction but trim , bags, electronic switch for attachments and LED circuit board for headlight and brushrolls. The belt for power drive changed in 2005. The armature and fiield coils, and everything else in the motor is the same. No change in perfornance. I have worked on and checked all the G series and found no difference in suction.                                                                                                                                                                                             Procare                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Agree with you Procare. Kirby has always made changes at the margin while keeping the guts the same. It's how Kirby [and all other door-to-door vacuum products] reduces economies of scale and increases profits year over year with same/steady unit sales. Â
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Hertz
  
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Re: Kirby Sentria
Reply #24 Apr 11, 2010 10:21 am |
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Hertz,      Any honest repairman will tell you the only difference between Sentria and any other G series is not the suction but trim , bags, electronic switch for attachments and LED circuit board for headlight and brushrolls. The belt for power drive changed in 2005. The armature and fiield coils, and everything else in the motor is the same. No change in perfornance. I have worked on and checked all the G series and found no difference in suction.                                                                                                                                                                                             Procare                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Read through the link I sent you; the Sentria has more suction and airflow than any previous iteration. Marginally, but it's there.
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mole
   
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Re: Kirby Sentria
Reply #25 Apr 11, 2010 10:42 am |
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Seems that KIRBY makes very small changes that can only be caught by the trained eye. The generation 3 with the transmission was the best move they ever made. It was a big change at the right time to save the company, Have you seen the renditions on the NEW kirby.
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Hertz
  
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Re: Kirby Sentria
Reply #27 Apr 12, 2010 6:19 pm |
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Hertz,  I still disagree with what you read. The cleaning performance proclaimed by GreatVac about Kirby,  is not a  better performing motor which is the same on all Generations but the brushroll. Kirby changed on the G-5 on to Sentria the brushroll . Instead four 6" rows they went to eight 6" rows. The bristles are thinner and stiffer. They give a little better performance than previous brushrolls in cleaning and this is the only change made to enhance performance. According to an old  Kirby Distributor. This isn't the case; the airflow is better on the G6-Diamond edition from previous iterations, and the Sentria has even BETTER airflow thus improving performance over even the Diamon edition. If you read through the numbers on that link I sent you, it will show you that the Sentria is slightly more powerful.
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retardturtle1
   
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Re: Kirby Sentria
Reply #30 Apr 13, 2010 10:02 am |
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Hertz,  I still disagree with what you read. The cleaning performance proclaimed by GreatVac about Kirby,  is not a  better performing motor which is the same on all Generations but the brushroll. Kirby changed on the G-5 on to Sentria the brushroll . Instead four 6" rows they went to eight 6" rows. The bristles are thinner and stiffer. They give a little better performance than previous brushrolls in cleaning and this is the only change made to enhance performance. According to an old  Kirby Distributor. procare
You nailed it......once you put a sentria brushroll on any g series....they all perform the same...no diff whatsoever ... thats been my findings also  in side by side testing and actual use at the shop and at home.....none of us at the shop are  seeing any increase in performance after the br upgrade. Gotta say your dead on procare. turtle
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