I bought a Black and Decker dustbuster 2 years ago, and it was great for the first year. After that, it will only run for about 45 seconds and then dies. I’ve just kind of dealt with that, only using it for occasional small cleanups rather than actual use. The batteries are impossible to replace without also destroying the battery holder and circuitry (I tried).
Basically looking for a recommendation for a good dustbuster that sucks in the good way and, ideally, has batteries that can be replaced when they go bad.
- Battery charging
- Charger sees increased resistance when the battery is full, then disengages charging to prevent an overcharge explosion.
- The system sits. The battery naturally discharges slightly.
- Charger sees reduced resistance, then engages charging.
- Repeat.
What this shitty battery charger is doing is repeatedly cycling the rechargeable battery. That decreases capacity. The consequences are far worse for cheaper nickel cadmium batteries (often paired with shitty battery chargers) than lithium ion batteries (often paired with chargers that turn off once the battery is charged).
There’s two solutions: Buy cheap and unplug it when it’s charged; Buy a nicer product that’ll do it for you.
Example: Walmart burner phone vs. basically anything else. Leave the burner plugged in overnight for a week and it’s dead because the battery chargers are trash.
I used to have a B&D dustbuster/vacuum combo that ended up the same way after sitting a while. Like you, I wanted to swap out the battery but the internals were so convoluted my odds of just destroying it anyways were pretty high.
I have a Craftsman 20v toolkit and they make a dustbuster/vacuum that takes that battery. It’s pricey at $200 but most anything would be better than my wife’s expensive RoboRock vacuum. It gets clogged moments into trying to vacuum carpet, granted its pet hair. Its no wonder they only do the robo-vacuums now.
I usually end up using my little handheld that I bought for around my desk for small messes or the corded Eureka for bigger cleanups, though that is a pain to lug up and down the floors. Hence looking at the Craftsman.
Thanks. $200 for “life” isn’t that bad when this handheld one cost $60 and I barely got a year out of it.
The Hoover OnePwr series has external batteries, like you find on power tools.
Plus you can buy replacements and larger capacity batteries on Amazon.
if there was more people here someone would have recommended a Dyson not knowing what their talking about.
Dustbusters have been dying an early programed death for decades now, going back to the NiCad battery days at least. Please don’t buy another one.
