"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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tim..... wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Anyone hear PM today? A guy who has a vacuum cleaner museum with
examples of pretty well every machine made reckoned the current range
of high power consumption cleaners was just a marketing ploy to appeal
to those who thought the more 'watts' the better. And basically just
produced more heat than extra suction.

Except that it seems rather unlikely that "which" would fall for
marketing claims.

Have they said the greater the wattage the better?

No, but a substantial number of their "best buys" were above the limit.

Bearing in mind that they (usually) take into account cost this is likely to
be on a value for money basis.

So it seems likely that whilst it is possible to give a lower wattage
machine more suction this can only be achieved by engineering changes that
costs more to achieve that adding a higher powered motor and thus, isn't a
marketing ploy at all