Post #4566815
2026-08-03 09:31 UTC
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu you got me intrigued. What factors determined the threshold of 1600 watts?
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@ArtHarg@mastodon.nl 2026-08-03 10:23
@autkin@fosstodon.org @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Above 1,500W your vacuum gets louder and hotter, but your floors don’t really get any cleaner. In other words: you can’t get your floors cleaner by putting in more power. You need to optimise the actual dust gathering. The public didn’t know that, they thought loud==clean and manufacturers happily sold ever higher wattages. So all power above 1,500W is essentially wasted. Give manufacturers a bit of headroom and you’re at 1,600W.