My canister vacuum cleaners airflow performance

[mike811]

All my canister vacuum cleaners airflow power measured from the canister itself. I didn't measure the suction because differences in it are quite small (78-94 Inches Of Water)
Who would know that the early 90's 1150w Lux has the same power what almost new 1600w Miele C3 has. Nilfisk GM80 has the industrial motor so it got huge 157 cfm result.
Also surprising was that the white 1000w mid 80's Philips was more powerful than the 1200w Sebo. Lowest was mid 80's 1000w red Philips, but it's still a good result.
I can use powerhead with all these vacuums.
Note that the hose will make the results drop 20-30 cfm.

 

[electromatik]

Looks like the Lux and the Miele were near the top. That Nilfisk was very strong. I really like the design of that one too.

 

[kirby519]

@Mike881

Hopefully you can answer this question. With the new energy consumption laws in place. How did it effect the sales of Kirby's in the European market. Did Kirby meet the new standards or did they too have to lower the wattage a Kirby used prior to the new laws? Or was Kirby already in compliance?

 

[mike811]

Kirby EU label

Kirby still sells vacuums in the Europe.
It wouldn't meet the standard EU-rules for the normal household vacuums.
However EU says: ""Compulsory labelling does not apply to wet vacuum cleaners, combined wet and dry vacuum cleaners,
battery-powered vacuum cleaners, industrial vacuum cleaners, robot vacuum cleaners, central vacuum cleaners
and vacuum cleaners for outside areas"".
So I suspect that the Kirby goes to one of those categories.
Kirby noise level is over the max allowed 80db, so it wouldn't meet the The EU energy label.
Kirby must be classified as a multi purpose vacuum, so it doesn't need to meet the EU energy label.

 

[kirby519]

Sorry to post that on this posting by you. However I knew you would see the question here. Glad to see you replied to my posting as well.
Sounds like Kirby "dodged the bullet" and or got under the "radar" on the new laws/standards.