New Dyson Light Ball

[henrydreyfuss]

The Miele Blizzard looks nice, but

I'm surprised Miele resisted throwing a few cyclones into their large bagless canister to improve it's separation efficiency. They're using Shark's system instead, coupled with a Windtunnel 2/Hoover Z system, with a filter that gets dirt "flicked-off" the pleats as needed, by the vacuum. I'm sure it works well, but there's obvious room for improvement, and the whole system is astonishingly over-complicated.

 

[drsnuggle]

Heard it all before

I saw a lot of those comments on the videos I did. And ibaisiac also said the same thing in his review as you (more or less). I beg to differ. I admit The Miele Blizzard is the only bagless I ever had, but... The videos I have seen on YT of multi-cyclones make me think it was a good choice by Miele. It must be better airflow using mono-cyclone compared to multi-cyclones (less resistance). It sound less than multi-cyclones. It is also very simple to clean The Blizzard. You also need less power to achieve the same cleaning result.

It is all about filters and Miele has a huge filter after the air has passed the container (which is easy to clean), the mono cyclon being the first. With multi-cyclones those other filters may be cleaner for a longer time. But sooner or later you will have to clean them out. The dirt does not magically disappear.

My point in my last post was that not all bagless are cheaply produced crap. No I believe that Miele Blizzard can stand on it's own against all of these bagless vacuums produced in low wage countries.

 

[henrydreyfuss]

I bet the Miele Blizzard is great!

I have a few Sharks that use a nearly-identical filtration setup (minus the "self-cleaning" filter), and they work far better than expected. I am admittedly still surprised Miele opted-out of cyclones (given that the patents are expired, and they work so much better at keeping dirt off the filters to begin with), but the Shark setup is the next best thing. I'd love to try one! I own one Miele canister, and it's excellent. I'd never part with it!

 

[tseg]

I'm not some environmentalist sustainability guy but can appreciate engineering in a vacuum that can make it last for years and years and years. Most bagless vacuums die after a couple years, while is acceptable to many, is no engineering feat. God forbid a bagless does live for years and years and years... then you have to deal with deep cleaning of the vacuum. I've deep-cleaned bagless vacuums with years of crud and it is downright gross. I remember years ago when I bought a Dyson and thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Within a year I found it repulsive, but carried on with it for many more years. A year into a bagged Miele and it is still pristine on the inside. How do bagless fans reconcile dealing with the internal filth that must be scoured periodically... or is that some type of unique quirky attraction I cannot appreciate?

 

[bikerray]

Oh, I thought you meant that the ball lights up while you're vacuuming.

Is Dyson ever going to come out with a Disco Ball vacuum?????