Headlights -- Why most modern vacuums don't have them?

[sptyks]

I have several different Kirby's and a Royal. All of them have headlights that are more than adequate in lighting a 4 to 5 foot path in front of the machine. I also have a bagless Hoover windtunnel Air that does not have a headlight and I sure do miss the headlights on my other machines whenever I use it.

 

[sebo_fan]

The Lift off Vax Cordless Air has an LED strip which is unusual for a cordless upright sold in the UK. Shame the normal Cordless Air doesn't feature it, though.

 

[niclonnic]

On the other hand...

The U.S. equivalent of the normal Vax Air Cordless, the Hoover Air Cordless, does feature an LED headlight. I don't own this machine, so I did a quick search and found this image on Google.

 

[delaneymeegan]

 


 


These LED alternatives look really interesting.  They're compact yet powerful.

 

[fan-of-fans]

If anything, I think more vacuums in the United States have headlights now. Typically the low end upright range from various makes does not have them, and never did. But the Sharks and many others are starting to have them, especially the LED lights. Power nozzle canisters used to not have them on BOL models, but these days most all canisters offer them, even the BOL do.

 

[human]

LED's make good sense on a vacuum cleaner as they're very bright, highly configurable, and consume minimal power.

 

[jay]

Vacuum headlights

I have a battery powered Shark.
I would like to switch off the headlights so that the battery power is saved for the motor. If I want light I will switch on a ceiling light which is brighter anyway.

 

[jo]

My Shark rocket has two headlights

Yes…My Shark rocket actually has two headlights…one on the main motor base unit which actually seems to have a mini projector lens and this allows it to cas the light from the base unit up at hand height down to the floor.

Also, the power nozzle unit has Two sets of LED lights across the front and it fits under the furniture just fine. It’s the UV330 model.

Both lights are very convenient as I have dark hardwoods and some areas of the house are dark and this way I don’t have to put the lights on to see in those dark corners, under the stove, under the couch, etc. The lights do it all and work well,

Since I use this thing mostly when I want to do quick clean ups, having the lights saves time because I don’t have to turn on the lights in the dark areas to see, the vac lights those areas and allows me to speed along with my quick cleanup task.

So…I really like the headlights and wish all vacs would have both of these lights. It just helps and is cheap enough.

Jon

 

[alwaysluvdvacs]

The headlight saved my butt..

I had always owned cheap vacuums from Dirt Devil to Shark. Then I bought my first vacuum made by Tacony. A brand new Riccar R30D.6.
The headlight saved my butt that day when I had to explain the price to my partner. He was just as impressed as I to see the the illuminated dirt 'jumping' out of the carpet before being vacuumed up.
That was about 1 year ago. Today we own:
Riccar R30D.6
Titan T500 Cordless
Maytag m1200, m700 and m600 Cordless
Hoover ONEPWR Cordless Bagged Upright
Shark Liftaway Navigator
What has happened to me?

 

[tseg]

I'm all about the headlight... I have an SEB236 PN for my Miele C3 and I have a Miele Jazz U1 with headlight... both LED. I recently gave away my Sebo Felix without a headlight. My house is 80 years old with lots of nooks and crannies that are dimly lit. My only disappointment is the SEB236 light goes off when I turn off the roller. Luckily for my C3 I also have a non-powered hose with parquet attachment and an LED on the Alize handle that will turn on for 10 second increments for my hardwood floors, so I can confirm a job well done in a dimly lit corner.

 

[human]

Re-reading this thread several years later brought back a childhood memory of our Hoover Convertible, which did not have a headlight but had a spot on the front of the motor cover where I felt one should rightly be. The lack of a headlight really bothered the eight-year-old me.

Looking at my collection today, all of my uprights have headlights, with the exception of a Sanitaire and an Electrolux Discovery II. The only ones with LEDs are my two Kirby Sentrias. Conversely, only one of my canister power nozzles (all Electrolux) has a headlight and it's the newest of the lot, a model 1623 that came with a Diplomat LX canister that I rescued from beside a dumpster.

 

[hoover300]

Human

What color of Convertible? Like a Hoover U4005 or U4009?
If so, I have the blue one(U4005).

 

[human]

It was the classic 'Brady Bunch' Convertible, beige with a lime green motor cover. We had the full toolkit for it but that stuff pretty much never got used. I have no idea what the model number was but we got it in about 1972. It got passed down to me in late '80s and I kept it until 1998. I always thought the beige bag with all its little air holes looked like a giant Band-Aid.