I'll be waiting for your review Carmine.......    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
NOT

motor contacts possibly brush/ring collar similar to Miele approach for topend hose_to_can, but higher current rating.  old amusement rides used them too.  They do wear.
 
How long 15's warranty?  Is motor/contact system covered longer than rest of vac?
 
Our sears doesn't know when theirs arrives - all excited though.

Quote from Elcleanofreako   on 04/20/05 at 1:59pm:

 
 
The DC15 warranty is 2 year limited just like all the other dysons, except 50 percent more in price than the DC07.
 
Will have to wait and see and read the specifics with regard to the "ball."
 
All the questions (Artie) are interesting and worthy of research and answers.  We'll see for sure soon enough.
 
Carmine D.

"The rotating fan motor will act like a gyroscope, and when you rotate a gyroscope, you get forces on a different axis. I wonder if this effect will be noticable?"  
 
Carl  
 
Two vacuums previously mentioned with motors that moved with the vacuums' motions are the GE Roll Easy and the Westinghouse canister.  Both were produced around the same time in the late 1950's.  Neither was very popular.  Both had very poor sales and short lived productions.  Both were competitively priced and marketed during an era when tanks and canisters still outsold uprights.  The dynamics of the motor moving in concert with the vacuum movement adversely affected the motors in these vacuums, the GE more than the Westinghouse.  The concept was shelved until now.  Dyson uses the concept with the "ball"  except in an upright mode.  
 
The GE motor was horizontally mounted in the vacuum and the dynamics of the vacuum's bouncing, turning, and jarring adversely affected the motor.  The GE was designed to be tugged up and down steps.  Heat and vibration were hard on the motor's bearings.  
 
The Westinghouse motor was vertically mounted in the vacuum and spun clockwise and counter clockwise depending on the user's pulling motion on the vacuum's hose.  
 
It will be interesting to see how Dyson  "buffers" the motor from the shocks of the vacuum's movements and motions.  The DC15 motor is 10 amps rather than the standard 12, in part, to reduce motor heat which will build up on the enclosed motor.  
 
We'll see if Dyson proves more successful with the concept than his predecessors, GE and Westinghouse.  Two powerhouses of the industry in the late 1950's who failed to design and implement the concept successfully in a household vacuum application.
 
That's not to say that the concept was the sole reason the vacuums failed.  But it helped in their demise.
 
Carmine D.

OK,  
I just needed to put this to bed......
The motor is STATIONARY within the ball, it never moves or spins.......The motor is 10 amp, due to the second motor for thr brushbar being 2 amp.  There has been no word if this was to reduce heat.  Oh, by the way Carmine, please let me know when you plan on visiting the Best Buy in Woodbridge, I would love to be there since I dont live too far away