Posted on 08/22/2014 12:27:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Consumers are being urged to buy powerful vacuum cleaners while they can after it emerged that some of the most powerful models on the market will disappear in September when a new EU rule comes into force.
An EU energy label, to be introduced from 1 September, means manufacturers will not be able to make or import vacuum cleaners with a motor that exceeds 1,600 watts.
The Which? consumer group said many of its Best Buy models had motor sizes that exceeded this, so if youre in the market for a powerful vacuum, you should act quickly, before all of the models currently available sell out. The wattage will be limited to only 900 watts by 2017further restricting choice. Current cleaners typically boast an average of 1,800 watts.
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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...:^)
That’s right. They do have higher voltage @ 50z on the other side of the pond.
50 Hz
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.
"Commence Operation......Vacu-Suck!"
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.
;>)
No more Dyson vacuums.
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