Cordless vacuum for the boat

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AEG ergorapido.....£80 inc postage. Cordless upright.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AEG-AG300...595?pt=UK_Vacuum_Cleaners&hash=item58b747da9b

I have no shore power and thoroughly recommend this vacuum(and the seller). It fits in a tight locker and charges off the leisure batteries if you power it through a laptop adaptor.
I've put up with a rubber brush and a halfords car vacuum and wish I'd bought one ages ago. This is like a proper Hoover. In fact it's so good, the wife keeps commandeering it for home use.
Mine started to slow down and the seller sent me a replacement under guarantee, it cost me nothing as they didn't even want the old one back. Excellent customer service. When it eventually dies, I'll be able to replace the power pack with an RC battery from Maplins, so with any luck it will last for years.
 
Hmm AEG! not my favorite people at the moment - in fact they are Electrolux. I had a thermostat in our dual oven go the other day and tried to get a replacement. No sir that is obsolete now we only hold spares for 6 years or so or when the stock runs out . You need to replace the oven. I guess this was a high failure rate as they have been out of stock for a while. When I said this was likely to cost upwards of 15K they were a bit surprised. Our ovens aren't that expensive! No but what chances have I got replacing the oven without my wife saying "well we need a complete new kitchen then"

It took some time but a local store came up with a substitute for £80 - why couldn't AEG do that !
 
I can't help feel a bit cynical of OPs glowing comments. A vaccuum cleaner is good depending on actual vaccuum or more specifically air flow. This in turn is dependant on good compressor design ie one or 2 stage centrifugal compressor and lots of power to drive the compressor fast. Now most domestic vaccuum cleaners run around 1000w or more ie 1.5 HP to get their effective "suction". This can only mean that any battery powered vaccuum cleaner is going to be a mere shadow of a real mains powered cleaner.
Now perhaps the puny battery ones have a use compared to a brush and shovel on a boat. I may be wrong but I can't see a battery vaccuum doing much good olewill
 
I was a bit skeptical until I bought one. I have a beige carpet, a dog and crew of three who don't take their shoes off as much as I'd like. Having a dodgy back, the car vacuums were a pain and required half a dozen passes until they stopped collecting spaniel hair. This thing has a rotating brush and does it all in one go. No doubt a mains voltage vacuum would be better, but I don't have mains. This is the first cordless I've owned that works like a Dyson and sucks in a good way!
I'm not in the vacuum business or associated with the seller.
 
I've gone off Dyson. When they first came on the market, much was made of the fact that they were manufactured in GB. They are now made in the east 'for economic reasons'. They are also still unjustifiably expensive (despite being made in Korea) and I get rather irritated at the implication that Mr Dyson invented the cyclone - he didn't.
 
Dyson cordless for us. We did have a cheapo 12v one but it didn't last. The Dyson handheld has been good for 5 years so far, left on the boat over winter, and chargeable via inverter if needed, but usually from the marina shorepower at the end of one cruise, ready to be used on the next.
 
ghostlymoron said:
I've gone off Dyson. When they first came on the market, much was made of the fact that they were manufactured in GB. They are now made in the east 'for economic reasons'. They are also still unjustifiably expensive (despite being made in Korea) and I get rather irritated at the implication that Mr Dyson invented the cyclone - he didn't.
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I don't understand why that chap still has his Knighthood,
 
ghostlymoron said:
I've gone off Dyson. When they first came on the market, much was made of the fact that they were manufactured in GB. They are now made in the east 'for economic reasons'. They are also still unjustifiably expensive (despite being made in Korea) and I get rather irritated at the implication that Mr Dyson invented the cyclone - he didn't.
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I think that's rather naive. Dyson is an international company now employing about 4500 people with over £1Bn turnover. They manufacture at their own plant in Malaysia, it's not just subcontracting to Korea.
85% of their production is sold outside the uk; why do you expect them to manufacture it all here?
The principal R&D base is in this country and employs many qualified people, in fact like most successful UK companies they have trouble getting enough engineers.
They also put quite a bit of money into university collaborations such as a sponsored robotics lab at Imperial see http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_10-2-2014-10-26-45 and fluid mechanics research at Cambridge.
If you think they are too dear, it's your choice to buy something else, fine. But can you find anything else that works as well?
 
How do you charge a cordless vacuum cleaner if you don't have shore power? I bought a 12 volt Black and Decker vacuum which looks like a snail which unrolls if you wish to have a long pointy hose. It is brilliant and great for hoovering up after my many sessions fitting things. Not as good as a long handled thing if you have a bad back though.
 
salar said:
How do you charge a cordless vacuum cleaner if you don't have shore power? I bought a 12 volt Black and Decker vacuum which looks like a snail which unrolls if you wish to have a long pointy hose. It is brilliant and great for hoovering up after my many sessions fitting things. Not as good as a long handled thing if you have a bad back though.
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Inverter - either a super cheap cigar lighter one, or a slightly more expensive one which can deliver more power via direct battery connections or via cigar lighter. I bought one of the (to me) expensive 1000w one for £69 this Summer as I needed some of the extra power to run a 240v ice maker as the fridge gas started leaking. For laptops and minor things I don't mind taking from the domestic batteries, but for more powerful things (ice maker, charging the outboard engine etc.) I use the invertor when motoring.
 
William_H said:
I can't help feel a bit cynical of OPs glowing comments. A vaccuum cleaner is good depending on actual vaccuum or more specifically air flow. This in turn is dependant on good compressor design ie one or 2 stage centrifugal compressor and lots of power to drive the compressor fast. Now most domestic vaccuum cleaners run around 1000w or more ie 1.5 HP to get their effective "suction". This can only mean that any battery powered vaccuum cleaner is going to be a mere shadow of a real mains powered cleaner.
Now perhaps the puny battery ones have a use compared to a brush and shovel on a boat. I may be wrong but I can't see a battery vaccuum doing much good olewill
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Totally agree - the most charitable conclusion is that the OP is not an experienced cleaner - I've used a number of battery operated cleaners and even the £350 Dyson isn't a patch on the €19.99 mains powered one I bought in Marinopoulous (Carrefour)
 
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