Maytag M700 Lifetime Belt

[mark40511]

so basically

stay away from any Tacony vacuum?

 

[madman]

"The belt touches a part called the "Hall Sensor", which sends the speed of the belt that's touching it, to the circuit board."

The technical term is 'hall effect sensor.' It's basically a speed sensor, yes, but the whole point of it is that it doesn't touch anything. Sort of solid state, so it won't wear out. It requires metal to pass by it (and the absence of metal), so likely there are metal bars inside the brush roll for this purpose. I'd be very surprised if the belt itself had metal in it.

 

[dysonman1]

No. That’s not it.

This part is called a “hall sensor“. When you order it from Tacony that is what it is called. The belt touches the black wheel which spins with the belt. There is a magnet in the black wheel. The magnet is spinning with the belt, communicating the speed of the brush roll to the circuitboard. When the revolutions have slowed by half the hall sensor stops the machine.

 

[dysonman1]

Mark

I wouldn't say to stay away from Tacony vacuums. The R20SC is still one of my favorite vacuums. NO Circuit Board. No switch in the handle. Steel brush bar. Excellent suction and cleaning ability. It's the workhorse of the line, and I've never regretted selling a single one. The 8 pound machine from Tacony is awesome. I've sold at least a thousand, and they hold up very well. Just not the models with circuit boards, hall sensors, or other electronics destined to fail. The more simple the machine, the better.

 

[luxlife]

I'm still highly confident in my 8 pound machine.

I've owned it for 5 1/2 years. It has the Hall sensor and I've never had an issue with it. I guess it was built before quality control started to drop off.

My sister-in-law has one of the 8000 series that's probably 15 years old. I'll tell her to hang onto it because the quality isn't coming back.

 

[dysonman1]

They just keep coming....

I traded in just now this Maytag M600. It was one of the Proto types, so it has an hour clock under the hood. This machine has run for 88 1/2 hours and it will never run again. Bad charger, bad battery, motor screams like hell. The machine has not been abused. There are tons of Tacony vacuums. My goal is to trade them all in. This customer for example now has an Electrolux. I’m going to keep all of the trade in Tacony vacuums, and we will have a huge bonfire at the next vacuum cleaner collectors convention this coming May.

 

[madman]

Dysonman, I'll repeat, the TECHNICAL term for the device is 'Hall effect sensor.' It's called that because it operates on the principle of the Hall effect. Just because one company has a shortened internal name for it does not change what it actually is. Of course, I was just getting technical about it, 'hall sensor' is a perfectly legitimate short version. I was trying to explain the technical side of how it worked because from your description it seemed like you didn't quite understand.

Of course, what I didn't understand was that, on this machine, the Hall effect sensor was reading from an idler or tensioner pulley. So I misunderstood your description.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect