PN cylinder cleaners
To all of you chatting about this
I'm in the UK and I have few vacuums with power heads First being a vac mach 3 powerhead cylinder that you may have seen on YouTube. I have 3 wertheims all with powerheads I have an older miele cat and dog that I got a seperate powerhead for ( that was when they had the power takeoff socket ) I use to have 2 but sold one I have a filter queen, an old rainbow, a big power, a tristar and a vorwerk tiger all these machines have power nozzles I have just ordered the new Vax with a powerhead and should be here in a few days.
I don't own a cylinder cleaner without a powerhead as I personally don't like them but I know a lot of people won't have anything else
The performance of my of PN cleaners is fantastic most of them have around 2000 watt motors but I NEVER USE FULL POWER I normally have them set around 650 watts and that copes with 6 cats and the dog. I'm so pleased this ruling has been made I've been trying to tell people for years that yhey don't need high power motors.
If I use an upright it's usually a Hoover turbo 1 or a junior low power vacuums with incredible cleaning power and performance. This is down to the design of the motor and the brushroll.
My wertheims have very similar brushrolls the the old Hoover uprights. It has proper beater bars and excellent stiff bristles. They call it vibration technology. Hence when I use it on 650 watts it almost outperforms all my other vacuums.
They are very handy as when using a PN cleaner I just take the handle out the extension tube and I can do my edges, dusting, sofas and my kitchen worktops without having to bend to remove a hose or try and get the hose back round it's hooks on the cleaner I don't have the fear that it's going to fall on me either. Even when using the hose on these machines I never turn up the power. The only ones different are the Vax models My mach 3 is 1400 watts I think ( lol I'm in bed and can't be arsed to go check 
) and the power is fixed not variable.
On the subject of cylinders and their heads someone mentioned the first generation of goblin rios now they are cylinders that I loved at first they had a flip over floor tool like electrolux models then they went with the head that didn't swivel and had 4 very small wheels and when you flipped the switch on thd head it only had bristles on the back nothing at the front. I loved those heads I had one on my goblin wet and dry and it did an excellent job even when I had the two speed switch set to 750watts and not 1000watts Why they changed the head I'll never know but on a lower power setting that head was fantastic. My neighbour had a Band ETA cylinder from argos with only 650 watts when I was a kid and that was fantastic because of the head design. It used the same as Phillips vacuums from the same era.
I do think that head design on cylinder cleaners is a big thing It's what determines how well the vacuum will clean.
Lol I'm rambling a load of old crap now Good night vacuum landers
