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Held up to the door... Check it out........you can't even see daylight through the bag except for where it was flexed to remove it from the cloth bag! Now that's a clogged bag if I've ever seen one.... Talk about a beast of a vacuum! I'm lovin' this thing!

Another View... Check out the CAKE of dirt on the sides of the bag!!!

So today I decided to Christen my newly acquired Royal 4650 Tank by cleaning out my car. It hasn't been vacuumed in probably 2 months now. I'm usually better about keeping it vacuumed than that! I used solely the upholstery brush on it, and I'm SHOCKED at the amount of dirt that thing pulled out...

More Cons than Pros... We had one for a while at work. Ours was a 9 amp, so it wasn't nearly as loud as the later 12 amp models, but it was still a screamer. The motor ran VERY hot, the belts burned like nobody's business, and we had a lot of problems with the brushroll bearings. They were...

lux1521... Check out thread 6623 for an actual picture and description of the DDM rotor. I too have wondered about the structural balance of the rotor on these things. Even with the small size of the turbine. I'm assuming the funky shape of the vanes is supposed to help reduce the turbulance.

Queries to Dyson I haven't. Maybe I should! I wonder if I'd just get a redirect to a product page, or if I'd actually get an intelligent response! God knows their instruction books leave a lot to be desired.....

Some mighty tall claims... Dyson is a master at marketing mainly because they don't ever give the science behind their claims. Where do they get the idea that conventional motors are only 50% efficient? Even the most horrendous, cheapest induction motors (which are FAR more inefficient than...

DDM Power Well ganged motors would certainly be somewhat revolutionary for a small portable canister, but you've gotta remember......the DDM pulls the same amount of power as the traditional motor in the corded machines they've released thus-far. Here in the US, the normal machines are rated at...

Factory Rebuilt It's a factory-rebuilt machine. You can find them through dozens of online retailers, shops like Fry's Electronics, and of course eBay. I paid about $250 shipped for this one give or take. Don't remember the exact amount and I'm entirely too lazy to dig out the receipt right...

Quadraflex Agitator I'm too lazy to haul out the camera and take a picture of my own, so here's one stolen from the internet. What makes it good is the fully spiral design with the brush stiffeners. It doesn't have beater bars per-se since they're actually behind the brushes themselves. It...

The Concept One works so well due to the QuadraFlex brushroll. I'm pretty sure if it had anything else it would be less than lackluster in the performance department. It's got a small fan and a tiny motor. It moves a decent amount of air, but nothing to write home about. But when you couple it...

Top 3 Before the Dyson The 7 amp Sanitaire S670 was and still is my best deep-cleaner. My next best was the TriStar CXL with VGII brushroll and 3rd in line believe it or not is a measly little 4.1 amp Hoover Concept One. The Dyson does a respectable job cleaning, deep cleaning, etc......but it...

Power Switches The power switch is sort of a 2-piece job. The red button turns the machine itself on and off while the white switch turns the brushroll on and off. One annoyance is that when the machine is turned off, the brushroll resets to "on" the next time you turn the machine on. I wish it...

Deep Cleaning This is a repeat of the picture I posted in my Clubwide Vacuum Test thread about the deep cleaning ability of the DC17. I never really associated the Dyson with being a deep-cleaner, but this one seems to do a pretty stellar job. Way, WAY beyond any expectations I held for the...

Carpet Fluffing This is how it fluffs the carpet. Quite surprising! The section you see in the photo below is the most heavily travelled part of my house. The carpet tends to mat down and it's VERY difficult to fluff it back up. I generally wind up using a stiff brush by hand to do it! The...

The Brushroll... It's VERY aggressive. Very well suited for cut-pile or Saxony carpet, but poorly suited for Berber or other short pile carpets. If you've got looped pile, I'd be afraid that the stiff bristles would pull the loops out!

I'll be the first person to admit that I'm not the world's biggest Dyson fan. I've used a DC07 in the past, and I've never been a big fan of the "Ball" machines. I tend to always view their machines as gimicks and overpriced. However, being a vac collector, I've finally decided to take the...

As you can see... It didn't get anywhere NEAR what I thought it would. Especially chasing a Dyson! I really expected more to be in the bag than it picked up. Particularly after the Dyson fluffed the carpet so well. I'm guessing thats where the fluff came from. Other than fine dust to discolor...