What a great little vac. I bought the first Linx vac in 2013. I bought the signature model in May of this year. Still have both of them. They both work fine in a typical home setting. We use this vac in a 2100 sq ft house, with mostly hardwood floors, and it gets the job done. This model seems a little quieter than 2013 model, but picks up just as well.
Run time? I have always kept a spare battery or two around so I can vacuum the whole house without stopping to wait for a charge. It does run shorter time when the brush is powered on, especially over longer carpet. The batteries aren’t cheap, but my time isn’t either.
This vac works great on cat hair, at least in our case, and he is a double coated main coon mix.
Some improvements? I added some stick on Velcro “fuzzy” portion strips to yer corners of the head, where one is most likely going to bump into corners of furniture or baseboards to prevent scuffing or knocking the paint off the baseboard. This seems to help a lot.
If I were a designer at Hoover, I would switch this vac over to a brushless DC motor to get more RPMs and perhaps longer battery run time, and fix a few things. Read on....
Mr Hoover, you do need to fix a couple of things:
1. The plastic cup that holds the fine dust filter sponge falls out of its place in the dirt cup if you turn the dirt cup over while emptying it. It can crash to the floor, or more importantly, on your foot or toes. This does not feel good, and also scatters fine dust all over the floor you just swept. Put a trio of evenly spaced ribs on the OD of the dust cup so it fits into its place with a little interference. A fix that costs nothing but a little tooling change.
2. For some reason, Mr. Hoover, something went wrong with this signature version of the Linx. The head of the vac won’t stay locked in the 90 degree position when the sweeper is “parked”. This means the handle can suddenly drop to the floor when you stop vacuuming for a moment and walk away from it, or when it is picked up for relocating. See the pics attached. My old 2013 model still does this correctly, so maybe I got a lemon-or some bean counter chintzed on the mechanism to cut cost. I dunno, but hurts like hell when you pick it up to move it, and the head drops on your foot.
Mr Hoover, I offer my improvement suggestions for resolution to the droopy head. What do ya say?
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