I tried the normal version, if you live in an area with any amount of dust, IE normal house with animals or any one near a farm avoid it . I know there was a problim with fine dust in Australia as well.
I loved the vacuum but its mae for appartments that have little dust not houses with through traffic.
Thats a lot of dust to go straight through the motor! How fine is the dust you guys have there in SA Gareth? And how fast did it clog the pre-motor filter?
This was a 2 day old vacuum , the person stayed on a farm and there was alot of dust, to be fair but she only vacuumed one room.
Here previous vacuum was a LG upright. I lent her one of our loan machines and she ended up buying that instead, we get a fair amount in with this problem
when people got something stuck in the cyclone that didn't allow the fine dust to fall out of the air stream. a ball of fluff would stop the dust and dirt exiting the cyclone path and allow it straight thru into the foam pre-motor filter.
These are a really good machine, but not for those that don't do maintenance (eg. 80% of the general public.