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Thread Number: 44351
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Eureka Imperials - 1970s & 1990s |
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| Post# 461685 , Reply# 1 3/23/2023 at 18:32 (731 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
One difference I noticed in the 1990 series of Imperial Eurekas is that they all prominantly displayed the motor power in watts instead of the usual amps. I can only think that this was a marketing strategy by Sweden's Electrolux as all vacuums in Europe use wattage as a measure of motor power. When you adjusted the motor speed on a European canister, the settings were always given in watts.
The maximum amperage allowed for North American vacuums is 12 amps. So 12 amps times 120 volts gives you 1440 watts, which is probably what was on the label for the 12 amp World Vac upright. | ||
| Post# 461686 , Reply# 2 3/23/2023 at 18:37 (731 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Sorry...I just noticed the ad for the World Vac Bravo says 1200 watts. So to get the amperage, you would divide 1200 by 120.
Maybe Electrolux thought that by using big wattage numbers the Eureka vacs would appear to be more powerful? Or maybe this was Eureka's response to Hoover's complicated "performance rating" which was always higher than the motor amperage? | ||
| Post# 461699 , Reply# 4 3/24/2023 at 14:18 (731 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that Eureka starting promoting the wattages as a response to Hoover’s bizarre “Cleaning Effectiveness per Amp” labelling that started around the same time. How Hoover came up with these numbers, I don’t know. But consumers who saw a Hoover upright labelled 18 for Cleaning Effectiveness per Amp, thought the cleaner was more powerful. So maybe Eureka responded with the wattage labelling to see if it made their vacs appear more powerful too. 1000 watts looks more powerful than 10 amps, I guess.
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| Post# 461701 , Reply# 5 3/24/2023 at 14:32 (731 days old) by Paul (USA) | ||
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Sounds logical. I'm unfamiliar with Hoover's "cleaning effectiveness per amp" theory. I have heard that more amps increases the speed of the motor. | ||
| Post# 462368 , Reply# 8 4/17/2023 at 10:08 (707 days old) by Paul (USA) | ||
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1976 Ad From the July 21 edition of LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS, Model 2364:
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