My "New" Hoover Turbopower 3 Autosense U2880

[alexhoovers94]

The tools

  

 

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Turbopower 3 introduced this "stair grooming" upholstory tool which the Turbopower 2's didn't have. You see this tool was put on Purepower cleaners too.

 

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Speaking of stairs...

You can see that the hose does indeed stretch to the top of the stairs as Hoover claimed.

 

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Permabag as standard but was optional on any Turbo 2 and 3

   

 

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I cleaned inside each one of those rectangles with a tooth brush! It still doesn't look perfect!

 

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Activator brushroll with quick release dust channel

   

 

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As you can see here...

This one was made in November 1995. Made in E.C.....probably the UK!

 

[bagintheback]

The bag ring is a brilliant idea! I can't believe manufacturers don't have one on every machine, or any product for that matter.  Engineering regression! 


 


 

 

[dysondestijl]

Great!

 

[alexhoovers94]

The bag ring is a brilliant idea!

Bagintheback - I am not quite sure what you mean, please enlighten me.


 


Thanks George.

 

[davetranter]

Glad you're enjoying your 'new toy'

Hope it was worth the journey....

Re: dry bearings. Is this a frequent problem with vacuum cleaners?? My background is in Engineering, and if there IS a way to get to a bearing for lubrication, I will find it... If anyone has such a motor (in any condition) local to me, I'd like to examine it...

All best

Dave T

 

[alexhoovers94]

It was....

Certainly worth it Dave, you had a BIT of a rare one there.

 

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Here is my Turbopower 2 Collection...

On the far left there is the Turbopower 3 U2880 next to that is the Turbopower 1000 U2812 then there is the Turbopower 2 U2464 and finally on the end there is the Turbopower 2 U2462.

 

[davetranter]

Autosense

What on earth is 'Autosense' anyway?? Why detect grit??

Mystfied...

Dave T

 

[vintagerepairer]

Autosense

I think it is worth remembering first and foremost that two of Hoover's key philosophies was to have as many gimmicks as possible, and to offer much confusion as possible in respect of the choices of cleaner available.

In principle, the idea of autosense is that in normal use the motor runs at a wattage sufficient for cleaning carpets. When grit was detected, Hoover decided it would be useful to boost the wattage so as to aid cleaning. Were this not enough, the user had the choice of overriding the autosense feature and running the cleaner at full power.

Now, when autosense was confined solely to the two cleaners in the Turbopower 1000 range, it all made sense, as the 1000 watt motor was higher than that of the 800 watt motor in the Turbopower 2 series. But when autosense was introduced to the Turbopower 2 cleaners, the 800 watt standard motor power dropped right down when using autosense. This is confusing for me. Either the Turbopower 2 cleaners were needing an 800 watt motor, or they weren't. Effectively, if the autosense models were capable of cleaning at below 800 watts (autosense mode) then the standard basic Turbopower 2 cleaner should have had, say, a 600 watt motor, because as it was it very much looked like the basic 800 watt cleaner was a better choice as it was designed to be used at 800 watts all the time, unlike the autosense which potentially ran at three different wattages.

Of the autosense cleaners which came to me for repair, I did note that most of them seemed to arrive with boost button pressed down, suggesting that the user preferred full power all of the time.

 

[alexhoovers94]

Here is a video I made a while ago using my Turbopower 2 Autosense but the Autosense works the same on all models, this video shows what happens when it detects more dirt than what was already being picked up. When the Autosense has grit or big particles strike it's sensor it boosts the power to it's medium power setting and when no more extra dirt/grit hits the sensor anymore, it returns to its low or economy power setting.

 

[alexhoovers94]

These are the exact words from the Turbopower 2 demo video..

The revolutionary Autosense system monitors the level of dirt in your carpet and automatically adjusts the power, grit particles strike a tiny sensor and an electronic brain boosts power where it's needed, and then returns Turbopower 2 to it's economy setting, saving energy.