Dyson cut-out

[Terry Pinnell]

I was vacuuming this morning, soon after new carpets fitted. Just before completion, darned Dyson lost power. I thought it was down to my treading on cable and breaking a connection, as I've done once before. So that meant lugging to shed, stripping out the switch, etc. When I could find no obvious breaks, a possible alternative cause occurred to me: the cylinder was chock full and some sort of automatic cut-out had been triggered. Sure enough, after emptying, all was OK!

I'd been holding out until I'd finished, and had planned to take a photo. ("Can you believe all this came from a new carpet?")

There's a label on the machine itself, which includes mention of an over-heating cut-out. I guess that was it?

[Lurch]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:56:09 +0000, Terry Pinnell strung together this:

Yep, once the cylinder starts getting full the airflow is reduced through the motor, which then overheats and cuts-out. Do it often enough and you'll need a new motor and\or cut-out.

[Gordon Henderson]

Yup. Give it a good cleaning and wash the filters out if it has them. It happened to me once with our DC07 which we inherited after it had been used during a house renovation....

Gordon

[Peter]

No loss of suction 100% of the time not a sausage nothin

Peter

[mike ring]

"Peter" wrote in news:cnio3m$nn6$1 @hercules.btinternet.com:

This slogan does assume occasional emptying; IIRC the ad implies that the downside of a Dyson is that it needs emptying more often due to greater efficiency.

I know I empty mine in a few seconds - outstanding

mike

[Richard]

Sister-in-law *gave* me her almost new Dyson because it periodically stopped. I replaced both filter. No problem since! I did try to persuade her to take it back, honest!

Tis a brilliant machine, even when dealing with evil Tetrion sandings from my inept electrical socket fitting!

Richard

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

I take it you mean: No loss of suckers. ?

[Terry Pinnell]

On the subject of emptying, after a year or so with this Dyson DC04, I still hesitate about which way to replace the top cover. I keep vowing to stick a bit of yellow tape on the bottom section, to match the yellow plastic thingie on top.

[mike ring]

T

No prob on the DC11, once you've worked out which catch releases it.

(First vacuum that's forced me to RTFM)

mike