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I've had the v10, the v11 and the v15 and an old dc08 for 20 years and they've never been clogged, the secret is to empty them every day in this way the air chambers remain clean, many people abuse the container exceeding the Max and then complain...try other cyclones not Dyson and then we'll talk about it again 😂
The Japanese bagless canisters don't use cyclones. At the back of the dust bin they have a very fine screen and behind that a deep pleated cloth filter. Nothing seems to get past those filters and most of these vacuums have a scraper thing that knocks the dirt off the pleated filter back into the dust chamber. I haven't seen these filters clog. Our Panasonic Rulo robot vacuum has the same set up on a smaller scale and it works.

Like I said, I get these things used from Japan and while the inside of the dust bin is dusty, the recess the bin sits in and everything behind in the motor chamber is nice and clean. Some of the better ones from Mitsubishi and Panasonic have more power than any bagged canister vacuum sold in the US.

I think this cyclone fetish is a "solution" in search of a problem. The Japanese worked this out a long time ago with an entirely different solution that is indifferent to over filling.
 
The Japanese bagless canisters don't use cyclones. At the back of the dust bin they have a very fine screen and behind that a deep pleated cloth filter. Nothing seems to get past those filters and most of these vacuums have a scraper thing that knocks the dirt off the pleated filter back into the dust chamber. I haven't seen these filters clog. Our Panasonic Rulo robot vacuum has the same set up on a smaller scale and it works.

Like I said, I get these things used from Japan and while the inside of the dust bin is dusty, the recess the bin sits in and everything behind in the motor chamber is nice and clean. Some of the better ones from Mitsubishi and Panasonic have more power than any bagged canister vacuum sold in the US.

I think this cyclone fetish is a "solution" in search of a problem. The Japanese worked this out a long time ago with an entirely different solution that is indifferent to over filling.
Ok probably these Japanese vacuum cleaners works well, I don't know because I've never had them but why discredit Dyson just because yours work 😂 I told you my experience with four Dysons and there is still this dynamic of comparison, as I've always said it's fine if you like something else but it doesn't mean that the rest is useless
Btw your description of the filtration system of this Japan vacuums seems to be very similar to the pencilvac one, I should do some research
 
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The trick is having a big surface area, the pencil vac does not have this.
I think it doesn't matter if the suction is high or low, but that the difference is made by the head, and the fluffy head is great, in fact I've read a lot of positive reviews

Of course, is a first attempt, but I hope the direction is that, lighter and smaller devices for people who naturally don't need to solve huge messes
After all, if you clean every day even several times a day, you don't need so much as the house always stays clean, and having a light and easy-to-take and use device is a big step forward
 
Beside that, the pencilvac is clearly a niche device, it can't compete with the top so it will have its own user range, as long as it manages to have it and it won't be abandoned after a model 🤷‍♂️
 
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Ok probably these Japanese vacuum cleaners works well, I don't know because I've never had them but why discredit Dyson just because yours work 😂 I told you my experience with four Dysons and there is still this dynamic of comparison, as I've always said it's fine if you like something else but it doesn't mean that the rest is useless
Btw your description of the filtration system of this Japan vacuums seems to be very similar to the pencilvac one, I should do some research
For most Dyson users, clogged cyclones and rapidly degraded performance are facts of life. You can say that it is avoidable but for most users that is not the case. Clogged Dyson cyclones are common. Broken or clogged Dysons and Sharks keep the lights on in many vac shop service departments. That tells me their design is altogether inadequate. Dyson took a cyclone designed for industrial uses where airflow is constant and the amount of waste in the waste bin has no effect on filtration, and adapted this to a vacuum cleaner where airflow varies significantly and constantly and where the amount of dirt in the dust bin very much effects filtration. It's not a good design. Other bagless designs, particularly those used in many Japanese bagless canister vacuums, are not sensitive to over filling.
 
For most Dyson users, clogged cyclones and rapidly degraded performance are facts of life. You can say that it is avoidable but for most users that is not the case. Clogged Dyson cyclones are common. Broken or clogged Dysons and Sharks keep the lights on in many vac shop service departments. That tells me their design is altogether inadequate. Dyson took a cyclone designed for industrial uses where airflow is constant and the amount of waste in the waste bin has no effect on filtration, and adapted this to a vacuum cleaner where airflow varies significantly and constantly and where the amount of dirt in the dust bin very much effects filtration. It's not a good design. Other bagless designs, particularly those used in many Japanese bagless canister vacuums, are not sensitive to over filling.
one of my friends works at the repair service and yes, most of the Dyson clogged but after 4/5 years of bad maintenance, can we say the same for other brands like Samsungs sharks dreame? I bet not
I feel people wants always the easiest way to use products (yes, including buying a bag vacuum for easy manteinace) even if this product costs a lot for them…the key for a long time product is caring and be respectful of the money that you spend but as we said we’re living in a capitalistic ad materialistic world and people easily trash a product and buy a new one
 
The Japanese bagless canisters don't use cyclones. At the back of the dust bin they have a very fine screen and behind that a deep pleated cloth filter. Nothing seems to get past those filters and most of these vacuums have a scraper thing that knocks the dirt off the pleated filter back into the dust chamber. I haven't seen these filters clog. Our Panasonic Rulo robot vacuum has the same set up on a smaller scale and it works.

Like I said, I get these things used from Japan and while the inside of the dust bin is dusty, the recess the bin sits in and everything behind in the motor chamber is nice and clean. Some of the better ones from Mitsubishi and Panasonic have more power than any bagged canister vacuum sold in the US.

I think this cyclone fetish is a "solution" in search of a problem. The Japanese worked this out a long time ago with an entirely different solution that is indifferent to over filling.
In my experience without effective cyclones in a bagless vacuum the filters basically get clogged with dust instantly and the entire vacuum practically has to be cleaned out with every use to ensure performance.

Is there any videos online of the vacuums you describe? I've never used a Japanese vacuum before.
 
Because of marketing hooking in one person, then word of mouth taking it from there. But, also, they were not widely accepted because they were ‘unhygienic’ to empty. I see them around in NZ sometimes. The Japanese followed western designs trends in western countries.
 
Because of marketing hooking in one person, then word of mouth taking it from there. But, also, they were not widely accepted because they were ‘unhygienic’ to empty. I see them around in NZ sometimes. The Japanese followed western designs trends in western countries.
Yes, the fact that it was not hygienic to empty was the first thing I thought watching the video, in any case not even the first Dysons were hygienic and then they became, maybe there was no will to deepen this bagless system;

Sometimes I think back to that LG that compacted the dust in pills, too bad it was huge because of the double system without bag, but it had potential
 
In my experience without effective cyclones in a bagless vacuum the filters basically get clogged with dust instantly and the entire vacuum practically has to be cleaned out with every use to ensure performance.

Is there any videos online of the vacuums you describe? I've never used a Japanese vacuum before.
I don't have any videos of mine but have a few images of one of the better ones, the Panasonic MC-SXJ4000. It was a Sanyo model that Panasonic continued to build after they bought Sanyo in 2010. This is from 2012. It is always surprising to me but they don't clog, stay clean and have lots of power.
 

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There an automatic scraper that runs a nub across the back of the big thick pleated filter to knock any dust back into the dust chamber and before the pleated filter is a fine mesh that catches the bigger stuff. The yellow thing in the nose of the dust chamber is a kind of corkscrew that acts like a cyclone to separate the larger stuff from the fines.
 

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