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| Post# 176409 4/8/2012 at 22:03 (4,397 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 176410 , Reply# 1 4/8/2012 at 22:04 (4,397 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 176412 , Reply# 2 4/8/2012 at 22:19 (4,397 days old) by mieles7 (TX) | ||
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| Post# 176419 , Reply# 3 4/9/2012 at 03:33 (4,397 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
 The reason the 470 is louder is because of the slightly more powerfull brush motor and the vibrations caused by the longer brush roll.
Those figures on the quietness are very misleading. To get those test results they put the vacuum into a soundproof room with walls that absorb sound. Then hold the test equipment a meter away to get that result. In real life the sound bounces off walls and echo's . if you took a sound meter you would find the noise of that machine closer to 85db than 68-69 db , in real life you would hardly notice the difference in the machines. That said they are one of the quietest vacuums on the market | ||
| Post# 176426 , Reply# 4 4/9/2012 at 05:12 (4,397 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 176428 , Reply# 5 4/9/2012 at 05:26 (4,397 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 176433 , Reply# 6 4/9/2012 at 07:59 (4,397 days old) by blakaeg (NW London, UK) | ||
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Sebo use universal motors which are avalable to anyone, they don't engineer them. The motors in the current Felix and series have B/S/H on them. Felix's no longer have the Ametek Italia suction motors but have Ametek brush roll motors. The machines are engineered well to contain the noise. | ||
| Post# 176473 , Reply# 7 4/9/2012 at 11:17 (4,397 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 176499 , Reply# 10 4/9/2012 at 15:29 (4,397 days old) by piano_god (British Columbia, Canada) | ||
 In North America, the X series and dual motor uprights originally used Ametek Lamb suction motors, but the current models use suction motors made by Domel in Slovenia. Brush motors used to be made by AEG, but are now manufactured by Ametek Italia. I believe they switched their suction motors when Ametek moved their Lamb plant from Kent, Ohio to Reynosa, Mexico.
The Felix's, as Emmanuel mentioned, originally used both Ametek Italia suction and brush motors. I have not seen the current Felix suction motor, but if stamped B/S/H, they are sourced from Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte. | ||
| Post# 176501 , Reply# 11 4/9/2012 at 15:35 (4,397 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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Im getting a new Felix next week so I'll be interested to see what motors they use. I know the current g1 uses the domel motors, we sell allot of these. The felix's I worked on were a few years old so maybe they have changed back.We have one in the workshop that has both motors as domel but we have just assembled it and Im not in the mood to strip it down again :( | ||
| Post# 176884 , Reply# 13 4/12/2012 at 11:15 (4,394 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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Right-oh, I emailed Sebo UK this morning and got a reply same day.
"...We used to use Ametek motors in most of our machines and at one time they made the best motors available, but in recent years other companies have started making motors that are better and more modern and efficient in design. If someone was familiar with the old USA made Ametek motors, they would hold them in high regard, but the new ones aren’t the best any more. The motors we use now are of greater quality, give outstanding performance and are the class leaders. Making a fast buck definitely wasn’t the reason for changing! The 370 is like a BS 36 which takes X type bags. It doesn’t replace the BS, but sells alongside it as a different version..." | ||
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