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Post# 165446   1/10/2012 at 16:13 (4,461 days old) by bravokid ()   |   | |
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clean air vs direct air vs tandem air. |
Post# 165463 , Reply# 1   1/10/2012 at 17:21 (4,461 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland)   |   | |
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Post# 165468 , Reply# 2   1/10/2012 at 18:14 (4,461 days old) by thevacuumman (Borger, TX)   |   | |
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Dirty Air for Weekly use Clean Air for Daily use |
Post# 165474 , Reply# 3   1/10/2012 at 18:45 (4,461 days old) by Blackheart (North Dakota)   |   | |
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Post# 165530 , Reply# 4   1/10/2012 at 23:13 (4,461 days old) by broomvac (N/A)   |   | |
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Post# 165565 , Reply# 6   1/11/2012 at 10:36 (4,460 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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For uprights, a dirty air vacuum uses less energy to get the same excellent deep carpet cleaning as a 12amp "bag-first" upright. You don't need 12 amps to deep clean high pile carpet, if the upright has a "fan-first" configuraton.
Two vacs are best: upright for carpets, canister for everything else. |
Post# 168165 , Reply# 7   2/3/2012 at 20:18 (4,437 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2)   |   | |
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"...For uprights, a dirty air vacuum uses less energy to get the same excellent deep carpet cleaning as a 12amp "bag-first" upright.."
It really surprises me that energy is a consideration for vacuum cleaners - unless you use your vacuum 24 hours a day, 7 days a week then yes, perhaps it can be costly to run. But, vacuum use so little energy compared to an electric stove or larger appliances, does it really make a different to your power bills? In the UK, and my experience I haven't noticed much of a difference between use of a clean air vac versus dirty fan - and that was at a time when I used power card meter for electricity. |
Post# 168252 , Reply# 10   2/4/2012 at 11:01 (4,436 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland)   |   | |
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Post# 168261 , Reply# 11   2/4/2012 at 12:13 (4,436 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 168269 , Reply# 13   2/4/2012 at 13:35 (4,436 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland)   |   | |
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Post# 168290 , Reply# 16   2/4/2012 at 17:07 (4,436 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland)   |   | |
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Post# 168301 , Reply# 18   2/4/2012 at 17:33 (4,436 days old) by baglessball ()   |   | |
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How did they rate it? |
Post# 168303 , Reply# 19   2/4/2012 at 17:36 (4,436 days old) by vintagerepairer (England)   |   | |
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No idea. I had the sound off. |
Post# 171430 , Reply# 21   2/29/2012 at 21:56 (4,411 days old) by bravokid ()   |   | |
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it seems to me that if both motors would have to be in perfect harmony or the direct air motor would give the clean air motor a turbine effect and make it spin faster and burn it out. opinions on this ..... |
Post# 171440 , Reply# 22   2/29/2012 at 23:00 (4,411 days old) by Kirbysthebest (Midwest)   |   | |
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Maybe this will help. See screen name for preference CLICK HERE TO GO TO Kirbysthebest's LINK |
Post# 171441 , Reply# 23   2/29/2012 at 23:18 (4,411 days old) by Kirbysthebest (Midwest)   |   | |
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This is the Riccar site. They are not bad machines. For the price I feel a little flimsy, but good cleaners from what I've seen. CLICK HERE TO GO TO Kirbysthebest's LINK |
Post# 171448 , Reply# 24   3/1/2012 at 00:56 (4,411 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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as far as I know the tandem air works like this,
for carpets the machine uses the dirty air motor to give that great cleaning but when you use the tools it uses the clean air motor, that's why the ducting is so complicated. I will admit I have only ever seen and worked on one of these machines and that's how it worked, you do not get Riccar in SA , it was brought back from the states by its owner |
Post# 171449 , Reply# 25   3/1/2012 at 01:01 (4,411 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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