EU ban on powerful vacuum cleaners prompts anger and legal challenge

Manchester Guardian ^ | Thursday 21 August 2014 14.58 EDT | Rebecca Smith, consumer affairs correspondent

[az_gila]

Anything more than 1,500 watts will probably trip the breaker if you try to use anything else at the same time.

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Not in the UK. The standard outlet is 13 Amps at 240 volts, which is 3120 watts.

At the moment, their hair dryers are much better than the US, but I bet those will be next on the EU hit list...:^)

[smokingfrog]

That’s right. They do have higher voltage @ 50z on the other side of the pond.

[smokingfrog]

50 Hz

[grey_whiskers]

This is industrial grade stupidity.

I bet it's to combat so-called AGW.

What the bureaucrats in charge of the EU regulation fail to consider, is that people will just run their 900 W machines much, much longer to obtain the same level of cleanliness, thereby undoing the supposed good of restricting the power consumption...

NO cheers, unfortunately.

[dfwgator]

"Commence Operation......Vacu-Suck!"

[PA Engineer]

I better hurry off to the patent office with my two 1600 watt motor vacuum.

[Covenantor]

I better hurry off to the patent office with my two 1600 watt motor vacuum.

Well heck, they all look like the comic book Transformers, might as well try registering "modifiable multi wheeled mobile toy with Turbine sound effects". Show them horizotal drawing adding a tail dragger wheel and voila. Don't mention the suck factor though.

;>)

[minnesota_bound]

No more Dyson vacuums.