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This article will enlighten you to the difference between a vacuum cleaners watts and air watts. These two measurements are important to know about if you are searching for a good vacuum cleaner for your home. A high percentage of consumers are not sure about the real difference between them, and often decide to buy the machine with the greater input wattage, ignoring the more important gauge of suction power, that is air watts. Wattage is the measurement of the amount of power or electricity that’s put directly into the vacuum motor. In real terms, the output power or suction ability that you receive for cleaning at the end of the suction hose depends on the vacuum’s overall performance. Air watts is the measure of the output power and vacuum suction ability. This is a far better way of comparison for modern vacuum cleaners. The vacuum must be totally free of any blockages, as this will affect the vacuum’s air watts/suction ability. You could say that the air watts measure is the end result, or the real dust/dirt pick up power, which does in fact rely on how much input, or electric wattage is used to support this suction. Many consumers use watts as a means of suction comparison, but the higher the wattage, the greater the power and the better the suction ability. Keep in mind that air watts, or real suction power depends on watts input, so to have a high number of air watts, the wattage and the power usage tends to be higher. With the development in recent years of more advanced vacuum cleaners coming on to the market, things are starting to change, so you can have a low-wattage or energy-efficient vacuum cleaner that produces very high suction, without the need for high wattage motors of over 2000 watts. This is partly because modern vacuum engineering construction methods have made steady progress. New features like improved air flow inside the vacuum, or using specially developed tapered fans which multiply suction power. Modern thinking vacuum manufacturers are turning to aerodynamically structured fan technology to improve suction power with low energy motors. There are several first class vacuum cleaners that use motors of between 1200 – 1400 watts, but deliver the same suction power as a 2200 watts motor vacuum. These low energy vacuums deliver extremely good cleaning performance, and you save a little on your electric bills over a length of time. In general, a traditional upright vacuum cleaner will require around 100-140 air watts for enough suction power to thoroughly vacuum your carpets. Cylinder vacuum cleaners will need over 200 air watts because the suction has a longer way to travel to effectively get dust out of your floor, along the long tube and hose, and finally into the canister dust bag or container. This distance could be a few metres long, and you need a high wattage vacuum to get the dirt from A to B. The upright vacuum may be a little more bulky to manoeuvre around your home, but it still has the advantage of better suction power without needing a very high wattage input. Having the suction unit close to the motor is vital for the effective suction ability of an upright vacuum. Vacuum cleaners with HEPA filters installed need more power because it takes a larger amount of suction to pull all those dust particles, dirt and fluff through the tightly interwoven thick fabric. But this is necessary to trap a high amount of tiny allergens and particles in the filter, to ensure the maximum amount of unhealthy particles stay out of your home atmosphere. HEPA vacuum filters can easily and quickly get blocked, so it’s important that they get cleaned as often as possible. But the more times a filter gets cleaned, then the less effective it becomes. Washable filters are the way to go nowadays because they are more environment friendly and will not end up in a landfill site somewhere. It’s quite startling that we live in a modern technologically advanced era, but we use a primitive method of trapping dust in our vacuum cleaners with a paper/cloth bag and some wind. Look at our window cleaning vacuums on site.
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