Our Dyson's died!
 

We have a DC05 that has just died. The fuse in the plug is okay but nothing whirrs.

Anyone know how to get in to the damn thing?

Re: Our Dyson's died!
 

How long have you left it? Ours has some kind of thermal thingy in it - and if it overheats it springs back into life after a few mins?

Just an idea.

Dunno about taking it apart tho.

Re: Our Dyson's died!
 

that's a good point, dilli, one of ours did the same when I accidently blocked it up - the motor is cooled by the flow of air - and the thermal cutout kicked in.

It took ages before it reset, as well - nearly 2 hours IIRC.

Re: Our Dyson's died!
 

It's also worth noting that if any of the air filters (hepa filters) are blocked, the Dyson will shut down.

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You could get the dodgy new one with the big ball at the bottom.

Re: Our Dyson's died!
 

Yes, I Killed our DC07, we were having lots of building work done and I used it to vac up all the builders dust.

Warning: Don't use you Dyson to vac up fine dust.

It lost suction and kept overheating. I stripped down the top of it were the cyclones are formes and found it all blocked with plaster/cement dust that had hardened. I cleaned it all out but it wasn't the machine it used to be.

It kept cutting out and last month finally died.

So I bought another one, same model only £150 - BARGAIN.

Forget about trying to get into the motor.

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:Yikes: its a vacume cleaner designed for sucking dust? :confused:

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Got a thing about balls today, have we? ;) :PP:

Yep, leave it to cool down for a couple of hours, make sure the filters are clean, if not then best let it go to that vacuum cleaner heaven in the sky :cry:

Re: Our Dyson's died!
 

He's right it does suck dust, but it does not like plaster dust.

We had this problem with our DC07 Animal - no loss of suction pah.

You need to pull the filters out and wash them or replace them - most Dysons have washable filters. The blue one once soaked the water was running like sloppy plaster out of it. Dry them on a radiator and hope the thermal cut out cuts in.

How old is it - they come with a two year wwty as default.

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Getting into them normally just requires a set of star bits, you know, the type manufaturers use to keep us out of their equipment but unfortunately you can by from screwfix etc ;) Not that I've ever had to get inside a Dyson to rewire it after someone yanked the lead once too often :angel:

Re: Our Dyson's died!
 

Like our DC05 did... :mad:

After the amount of hassle that thing gave us, I was quite happy to replace it with a Vax upright (£99.00 at Tesco), which has all the features of the Dyson, doesn't seem to lose suction much and is also far more powerful than the dyson. The downside is it sounds like a hovercraft (and if you've ever been to Dover, you KNOW how loud those are).

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An 'ordinary' hoover will allow fine dust to escape back into the air - as some have found trying to hoover up spilt toner, the Dyson design traps it all, but fine stuff will clog it quicker.

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Ye gads you don't want to be hoovering toner up with a standard hoover :erm: One of the Konica techs caught someone at the college doing it and he nearly soiled himself as he's seen toner spontaneously combust due to someone using a bog standard hoover to pick it up :Yikes:

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Yay! I have a Vax Luna 1300 - beats any Shi-son I've used hands down, and cost about £60 less when brand new.... plus, what was the colour designer on when he created the look for dysons???? :sick:

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hmm finely divided carbonaceous material & heat & static - sounds like an potential explosion, to me, too ;)