Been looking for a while to get a hand held vacuum for my car and the many crevices of my room.
This vacuum seems to get decent reviews, from what little i could find about it on the internet.
In-store the prices were still $129 but just mention the price on their site and that it has the $10 eftpos.
Pitty no lithium battery;
Battery Type: Ni-Cad
Well that's my interest dissipated. A NiCad/NiMH battery is another way of saying, it'll work for as long as it feels like.
What a bunch of hypersensitive infants on this site.
Yeah okay folks, neg me because I'm criticising some dinosaur-era battery technology that represents 2% of the global battery market (and that was in 2009) and is inferior in every single respect to Li-ion.
Virtually NOTHING is still using NiCad anymore because it is unequivocally one of the worst rechargeable battery technologies out there, even more inefficient than lead-acid batteries.
Not only do they lose something like 1-5% charge at room temperature over a 24-hour period, they suffer from the well-known "Memory Effect", when the formation of cadmium crystal insides the battery makes it think it's empty when it isn't, they can't even be fully discharged (as this would destroy the cell) and they don't even have linear discharge ramps so it's incredibly hard to even monitor the current (which is why the chargers never worked properly).
Hooray for HN, doing it's part to support the Dodo of the battery industry.
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I'm amazed at how irate people can get when when a comment is negged
That's your projection. I'm not irate, I'm more accurately just confused at what people are taking issue with here (definitely not surprised; as it is OzBargain).
That they geuninely think NiCad batteries are great (lol) and don't like people bagging them (which is a Flat Earth Society level of stupidity) or that they think I'm making mountains out of molehills about an obscure point. Which I may be, but it sure as hell isn't worth paying a hundred dollars for a hunk of crap that will guaran-friggin'-teed stop working in a few months (good luck getting replacement battery packs for these).
I don't know, maybe they were born after the year 2000 and aren't really sure what NiCad is. Anything NiCad powered I've ever owned is sitting in a landfill somewhere because the batteries went bust and at some point you just realise that you've paid tenfold the product's value in batteries over the course of it's lifetime.
This isn't speculation; it is a technological limitation of Nickel-Cadmium batteries. Period. That's why we don't use them anymore.
I did a lot of research on a car vac and bought a black and decker 18v for $169 from myer (asked and got a discount from $199). It has a hose which i think is essential if you want to vacuum your car.
I have one of these it has a built in crevice tool and a powered brush head for pet hair, but as mentioned its Ni-Cad battery so each charge is less than 10 minutes run time.
I have one of these and it sucks. Not in a good way, the only use I have for it now is sucking bugs off of my tv
We had one too, went to the rubbish bin pretty soon.
I think mine belongs there also
has filter been changed?
Works well enough for me for a small room. Housemates have said it's better than the handheld vacs they've owned.
Got it from UK eBay for a bit cheaper when the AUD was stronger but this is still a decent price.