Eureka 96 B Quick Up Upright Cordless Stick Vacuum
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Eureka 96 B Quick Up Upright Cordless Stick Vacuum
Customer Review: Awsome light and powerful
Summary: 5 Stars
I have never tought that this light vacuum would do big jobs.
I am loving it.
Customer Review: Bagless Vacuum
Summary: 4 Stars
I love the boss vacuum and have bought like 8 of them for friends. Little disappointed with the new version. The screws on the top of the handle came out and I could not find after only two weeks. I improvised and put some screws that I had in...... Plus doesn't seem to work as good as the older ones but I still like.....Customer Review: Barely acceptable
Summary: 2 Stars
This is really quite a bad cordless vacuum. It has almost no suction (those that write that it does have not really tested it).
1. Turn it to floor mode.
2. Put your hand at the nozzle. You will feel nearly nothing.
3. Put down some white powder carpet freshner.
4. Turn the boss to carpet mode.
5. See how long it takes to remove the white powder.
6. Run another vacuum across the same area.
You will prove to yourself that this picks up only the minimal amount of the powder with mutliple passes required at that.
Not recommended.
Customer Review: Battery charger broke.
Summary: 2 Stars
Everything is fine but after around six months of use, battery charger broke and I am finding it impossible to get a replacement one.Customer Review: Battery cycles in general
Summary: 5 Stars
This vacuum does a much better job with cat hair and dirt than any other lite portable we've tried, B&D or Shark. It will do the majority of the house 3 times on a single charge. I recommend not charging the vacuum or spare battery unless they are low, (not dead, just low), as every nicad battery gets cooked by the chargers soon after the warranty period, whether it's 90 days or 1 year.
Engineers continue to specify charging rates far in excess of the capability of the batteries to shed heat. This applies to all nicads and most nimh battery chargers on cheap portable appliances, therefore the batteries, over time, start a chemical chain reaction while being charged which kills them. Battery chargers which are electrically correct, cost about 20 to 40 dollars each, so you can see why they are only included in professional appliances and tools.
To beat this problem and have nicads or nimh batteries last for a few years instead of a few months, you must charge them only when they need it and do not leave them in the charger more than they need to recover. Also the fewer cells used in these batteries, the less chance of an inferior one which will ruin the entire battery pack so use lower voltage battery packs.
The batteries should be used until they are mostly discharged, i.e., when the motor slows down a little bit. Then they should be charged for 16 and no more than 24 hours, and taken off the charger or turn the charger off.
BTW, there is a simple solution to this dilemma, manufacturers should include Chinese made chargers with all portable appliances which charge the batteries with an intelligent rate, constant current, constant voltage, heat and voltage cutoff and .01C trickle rate. One day someone will do this and we should only buy that brand until the rest of them get with the program and we stop throwing away batteries so often. (Oops, they make higher profits selling replacement batteries so there goes the incentive)