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.

That'll be the model with the after burner feature then.
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J B Good