On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 08:34:25 +0100, PeterC wrote:

On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 01:02:31 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:02:21 +0100, polygonum
wrote:

Was discussing this last night. It will go down from 1600W to 900W in
2017.

And yet... 20 years ago I bought a Nilfisk that had 900W of motor power
and it suckethed mightily, so mightily I thought the carpet would come
up. A new motor was fitted after a blocked filter caused the old one to
overheat, and the motor was now 1200W and yea, it suckethed mightily,
but not noticeably more so than the old one.
I'd be happy enough with a good quality 900W motor and it seems to me
there's a lot of **** design out there that's using / wasting power
just to play the numbers game to attract business.

For 20 years I had a 900W George, then bought a 1400W Nilfisk for the
13A PTO socket. Used on the same job, for comparison, no difference in
performance, Nilfisk just as loud as George, in spite of supposedly
being less so and the Nilfisk's exhaust is a lot warmer than George's.
I reckon I bought a 900W vac. with a 500W heater free with it.

I notice that the Henry now comes with a low/high power switch
(600W/1200W).



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