(1980s) Viking 241 Electronic canister vacuum.

[cheesewonton]

Ah nice find. Yes the first version were kind of dark grey. As the officialy callied it blue… that why.

They are both beauties. My second D820 is that same color. I also have an Aerus Guardian Platinum that I converted into a 120 volt Lux Intelligence Classic. I bought the blue skins for one from France Purification, an Intelligence Premium woven cloth covered hose, replaced the Bluetooth control with the simple switch from a Powerprof hose and run this with the Lux metal telescopic wand and a Sebo ET-1 that has a neck from the Sauber Excellence. What a lash up! Nice to use, nice to look at but the vacuum body is fragile so I am very careful with it.

My D795 had a burned main board and motor, though it operated normally. I found the problem when I took it apart to clean it. The three wire connection from the motor to the main board was melted and the board charred. On the motor you could see a fried wire. Sigh. Those motors cannot be repaired. Since it was a unique to Japan 100 volt model I was afraid I would not be able to repair it but to my amazement Vorwerk Japan had an update kit for it. Apparently what happened to mine is not unique. The kit came with an updated board, wires, a powerful single stage Domel motor and mounting kit for it. The new board made it a D790. I lost the little light show depicting the motor power but retained the automatic suction feature. That automatic suction feature on Luxes seems to work nicer than other vacuums that have something similar. Only two wires from the motor to the board now. The Domel motor is a touch louder but the power is amazing. Very happy, but finding synthetic bags for that model is difficult. Getting hard to find synthetic bags for the D820 too and with everybody refusing to ship to the US I have to use them sparingly until everything sorts itself out.

 

[cheesewonton]

Looking at your Instagram feed at the Electrolux Excellio. Those came to us briefly as a Eureka Europa. Finding a nice one of those is right near the top of my Holy Grail list. Really beautiful equipment.

 

[eluxfan71]

They are both beauties. My second D820 is that same color. I also have an Aerus Guardian Platinum that I converted into a 120 volt Lux Intelligence Classic. I bought the blue skins for one from France Purification, an Intelligence Premium woven cloth covered hose, replaced the Bluetooth control with the simple switch from a Powerprof hose and run this with the Lux metal telescopic wand and a Sebo ET-1 that has a neck from the Sauber Excellence. What a lash up! Nice to use, nice to look at but the vacuum body is fragile so I am very careful with it.

My D795 had a burned main board and motor, though it operated normally. I found the problem when I took it apart to clean it. The three wire connection from the motor to the main board was melted and the board charred. On the motor you could see a fried wire. Sigh. Those motors cannot be repaired. Since it was a unique to Japan 100 volt model I was afraid I would not be able to repair it but to my amazement Vorwerk Japan had an update kit for it. Apparently what happened to mine is not unique. The kit came with an updated board, wires, a powerful single stage Domel motor and mounting kit for it. The new board made it a D790. I lost the little light show depicting the motor power but retained the automatic suction feature. That automatic suction feature on Luxes seems to work nicer than other vacuums that have something similar. Only two wires from the motor to the board now. The Domel motor is a touch louder but the power is amazing. Very happy, but finding synthetic bags for that model is difficult. Getting hard to find synthetic bags for the D820 too and with everybody refusing to ship to the US I have to use them sparingly until everything sorts itself out.

Yes looks fine the changes on the Aerus. By the way read somewhere, that the parts for the Lux S115 will be only available the next 5 years. So if you need something don’t wait to long. It seems they stopped the production of it.
i know, that the repair kit is with domel motor. The 2 stage is no more available.
For the bags, they are all available, but probably difficult to send to the US.
I personally use a high filtration bag from Electrolux on my D820

 

[cheesewonton]

Yes looks fine the changes on the Aerus. By the way read somewhere, that the parts for the Lux S115 will be only available the next 5 years. So if you need something don’t wait to long. It seems they stopped the production of it.
i know, that the repair kit is with domel motor. The 2 stage is no more available.
For the bags, they are all available, but probably difficult to send to the US.
I personally use a high filtration bag from Electrolux on my D820

There is a lot of speculation whether the Intelligence is still being produced or not. While the old Lux International website no longer shows it, the website of a new company spun off from Lux International in Germany, Poland, Hungary and a couple of other European nations called Allclean shows the Intelligence as a current product. Here is the German home page.

https://allclean.de/

Right now shipments to the US from Europe and many Asian nations are all suspended due to a lack of planning on the US part. Until recently anything under $800 could be shipped tariff free. That ends August 29th. All packages regardless of value are now subject to tariffs, even a package of Lux D820 synthetic bags from fhp.fi in Finland ( my go-to source for Euro Lux stuff ). Shippers have no way to ensure any tariffs are collected. The US has not created a system to accomplish this. Rather than risk getting sideways with the US government, or getting their customers in trouble, shippers around the world are suspending package shipments here. Until my chaotic government gets its act together I probably cannot buy anything from abroad. So much winning !

 

[eluxfan71]

Yes i have seen the new company allclean.
The Lux International Switzerland seem not to existing anymore and trmhe vacuum not too.
I have enough bags and filters for my D820. But do to the high filtration I prefer to use the Electrolux bags on it. Some years ago, i bought many parts for my D820 directly at Electrolux spare parts department.

 

[cheesewonton]

Yes i have seen the new company allclean.
The Lux International Switzerland seem not to existing anymore and trmhe vacuum not too.
I have enough bags and filters for my D820. But do to the high filtration I prefer to use the Electrolux bags on it. Some years ago, i bought many parts for my D820 directly at Electrolux spare parts department.

The Swiss investors sold their interest in Lux International way back in 2011. They formed a joint venture with Eureka-Forbes of India in 2009 that lasted through around 2011, after which Eureka-Forbes bought out the remaining shares owned by the Swiss. Lux International in the EU has been a subsidiary of Eureka-Forbes since 2011. Lux hasn't been a Swiss company for a very long time. They might have an office there but the ownership is Indian.

The Asia Pacific side of Lux International has been owned by Vorwerk since 1998. Vorwerk for a brief time continued to sell Swedish made Luxes in the Asia Pacific before switching to rebranding their Kobold models as Lux products. Example, I have a Vorwerk Tiger 260 I bought in Japan that is called the Lux Sora over there. They were selling the full line of Kobolds at first but they didn't sell well and now seem to concentrate on selling their Thermomix kitchen appliance and a small cordless upright. The Intelligence is sold in India as the Eureka-Forbes Euroclean Xtreme.

If you take an Intelligence or Aerus Guardian Platinum apart you see "Kolektor" stamped on just about everything, which makes me wonder if that is the company who makes them for Lux? Kolektor is a Slovenia based company though they could possibly have an assembly hall in Switzerland. The Intelligence has a Domel motor, also a product of Slovenia.

 

[eluxfan71]

The Swiss investors sold their interest in Lux International way back in 2011. They formed a joint venture with Eureka-Forbes of India in 2009 that lasted through around 2011, after which Eureka-Forbes bought out the remaining shares owned by the Swiss. Lux International in the EU has been a subsidiary of Eureka-Forbes since 2011. Lux hasn't been a Swiss company for a very long time. They might have an office there but the ownership is Indian.

The Asia Pacific side of Lux International has been owned by Vorwerk since 1998. Vorwerk for a brief time continued to sell Swedish made Luxes in the Asia Pacific before switching to rebranding their Kobold models as Lux products. Example, I have a Vorwerk Tiger 260 I bought in Japan that is called the Lux Sora over there. They were selling the full line of Kobolds at first but they didn't sell well and now seem to concentrate on selling their Thermomix kitchen appliance and a small cordless upright. The Intelligence is sold in India as the Eureka-Forbes Euroclean Xtreme.

If you take an Intelligence or Aerus Guardian Platinum apart you see "Kolektor" stamped on just about everything, which makes me wonder if that is the company who makes them for Lux? Kolektor is a Slovenia based company though they could possibly have an assembly hall in Switzerland. The Intelligence has a Domel motor, also a product of Slovenia.

Yes I know the story of Lux taking over by Eureka Forbes. So I hoped they will bring back the Euroclean based on the old Electrolux. But no.
Here the same, Vorwerk has only the battery driven stick vac and the robot cleaner. But doing very strong with the Thermomix. The launch of the TM7 was such a big event à la „Apple“
The Lux intelligence / S115 came from Kolektor Slovenia with Donel motor. But the problem is, that the plastics are so fragile and breaks easily. It has really nothing to do with the D820 or others made by Electrolux. Suppose they used a wrong or cheap plastic material. The regular Electrolux is quality wise much better. The Clean800 was one of the best cleaner in a consumer test magazine last year

 

[cheesewonton]

Yes I know the story of Lux taking over by Eureka Forbes. So I hoped they will bring back the Euroclean based on the old Electrolux. But no.
Here the same, Vorwerk has only the battery driven stick vac and the robot cleaner. But doing very strong with the Thermomix. The launch of the TM7 was such a big event à la „Apple“
The Lux intelligence / S115 came from Kolektor Slovenia with Donel motor. But the problem is, that the plastics are so fragile and breaks easily. It has really nothing to do with the D820 or others made by Electrolux. Suppose they used a wrong or cheap plastic material. The regular Electrolux is quality wise much better. The Clean800 was one of the best cleaner in a consumer test magazine last year

I know. I have a spare bag chamber and a couple of spare lower bodies for my home-made Intelligence because those are the fragile parts, and I am very gentle with it. The D820 is entirely different and exceptional in every way.

What is this Clean800? All I could find was this huge industrial vacuum made by "scia Systems".

High-Quality Cleaning and Qualification up to 800 mm in dia. and 500 mm in height​

The scia Clean 800 is used for dry-cleaning of 3-dimensional shaped substrates with weights up to 500 kg. The chamber design and functionality ensures a very good base pressure and allows to quantify even small residual contaminations on the substrate by mass spectroscopy measurement.

Something tells me it is the wrong Clean800.

 

[eluxfan71]

Sorry it is Ultimate 800 (the Clean600 is the compact)
Have a look at the Swedish homepage . There is a good overview on all models

 

[paul]

This is a good discussion but has hijacked the thread—unfair to the originator and complicating future searches. Please continue on the new thread on the Electrolux D/AP/S Series I will be creating shortly. I appreciate you, your knowledge and experience.

 

[paul]

This is a good discussion but has hijacked the thread—unfair to the originator and complicating future searches. Please continue on the new thread on the Electrolux D/AP/S Series I will be creating shortly. I appreciate you, your knowledge and experience.

New thread: https://vacuumland.org/threads/ab-electrolux-lux-related-company-d-ap-s-series-info-1978-2025.46639/