Dirt Devil Dynamite II Compact Bagless Upright Vacuum, UD20010

This is a great product!, December 17, 2011

By 

M. Johnston “Mike J” (Colorado) –

  

I wanted to write this review because there were some
negative reviews which almost caused me not to buy it, but I
bought it anyway. I decided to wait a few months (4),
though, to make sure I really liked it.

I do.

The negative comments were:

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1) short cord and owners manual says don’t use an extension
cord.

2) I have COPD, and somebody said emptying the canister
raised a huge cloud of dust.

3) Others stated that the exhaust was on the front of the
machine and would blow around the debris you were trying to
pick up, especially on hardwood floors.

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1) This sounded weird, so I got out my calculator. A 25 foot
14 gauge extension cord added to the 19 foot cord on the
machine gives you a 44 foot cord – 88 feet of copper to
complete the circuit. This gives you – with the 7 amp motor
– a voltage drop of 1.9 volts, or 1.6%. In other words
negligible. There is no reason not to use an extension cord.
The only thing I can think of is maybe some time in the
past, a contractor hooked a powerful generator to the vacuum
using an 8 gauge extension cord and blew up the motor… so
Dirt Devil said ‘No extension cords’. Ridiculous. The first
thing I did was buy an extension cord. It’s even red and
black, so it looks like it belongs with the unit. I roll
up all the cord and let it hang on the hook the picture shows
the hose hanging on, and let the hose hang lower. Works fine.

2) No cloud of dust. When the canister starts filling up,
I unhook it, walk it out into the garage where I keep the
garbage cans, unhook the clasp holding the canister closed,
tap it a couple times inside the garbage can and I’m good
to go. Believe me, I would know if it was dusty. It isn’t.

3) Exhaust on the front. It’s on the handle, people. When
you tilt the handle back in order to push the vacuum around,
the exhaust blows up in the air, not forward. To test this,
I crumbled up a handful of styrofoam packing peanuts and
tossed it onto a tile floor. Styrofoam crumbs. A baby’s sneeze
would have blown them into the next room. I fired up the
dirt devil and started to vacuum. not a speck was blown anywhere,
and it sucked up every crumb in a couple of seconds.

The day before the Dirt Devil arrived I had vacuumed with
my Sears vacuum. Pretty good vacuum, but weighs just a hair
under a million pounds. Anyway, I vacuumed again with the
Dirt Devil (new toy), not expecting to pick up much. Filled
the canister twice!

Clean up is simple. It’s so simple I actually wash the
canister and filter each time I use it. I don’t really think
you need to, but the first time I used it, I went ahead and
did it, just to see what the process was like. Not knowing
what I was doing, it took me almost 4 minutes. It’s quicker
now.

Hah! Pretty long review, huh? I could have just said “This
is a great product”, and let it go at that, but I thought
I should also tell you why.

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Pleasantly surprised, January 1, 2011

My father bought me this vacuum for Christmas since my old hand me down one finally died. I opened the package and was worried that it wouldn’t be very strong considering it’s size… WOW. I have a cat and a dog and this thing picked up every single hair in the house. I was shocked to see how much dirt had been in my carpet all this time… and more shocked that this lightweight vac picked it all up. It’s great for the stairs too because it’s so light. I would recommend this to everyone.

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Great on pet hair, January 21, 2011

This is the best vacuum–of any size–I have ever had for cleaning up pet hair.
I have several cats and am always cleaning. Can’t believe anything so small
can do such a good job!

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