The Henry is still the best. OK, it's mains powered, but I've used mine for years without a bag with no problems. I'm a dry liner, so I deal with very fine dust. You can't beat it for power or capacity. Even better, I paid £2 for it off a car boot sale!
Hi thanks for your video. I have also the same Cleaner since years, which is pretty good. Since a few days ago, the cleaner is not starting, I get both led (battery & filter) blinking very quickly during few seconds and then nothing. Battery is working very well on other makita machine & filter was cleaned up. Do you have any ideas ?
I love the review but the capacity seems a little low and run time could be better. I wish they would make a vacuum that would use 1 or 2 batteries, that way if you just had a little area to clean 1 battery would be fine but if you had a large area 2 batteries would increase the run time.
For some reason you don't mention what size battery pack that 12/30 minute run time is with. You did say you wish it was longer. If that run time is with the smallest one (1.5 Ah) than a bigger pack will run longer. Makita offers 5 different battery sizes. The largest being 5Ah. (1.5, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0 Ah's). You didn't cover that at all, which I feel should have been covered but was over looked. Cheers.
To make longer running time perhaps, bring out higher amp hour batteries. This will be the case in years to come. Milwaukee have 9 amp hour batteries in their range. Other manufacturers will follow suit. Metabo have the 6.2 lihd I think they are called. So not a bad idea increasing running time for high demand cordless tools. Im not sure of the battery technology Makita use in their cordless range compared to say Metabo, milwaukee or festool. From what I learned there are different grades of quality batteries these manufactures put in their tools. Panasonic make the best batteries the last time I went into this years ago but things could change. I have some panasonic cordless drills. The batteries are already 9 years old and still going.
Ive been looking for a 18 volt cordless and portable vacuum since Porter Cable discontinued theirs. Do you know if this Makita accepts the PC 18 volt battery? Update: Never mind...I just took a look at the price on Amazon. This one is way out of my price range. The PC was only 30 bucks.
This time Makita fails. Hoower for reactive service people for tradework? With that tiny little dust can??? How much does it fit in there? Also, because of the confined space, the fine dust will get into the filter right away, plugging it very quickly! They sould have paid less attention on the fancy spaceship design, and rather make something useful!
Greg, I agree. I have the bosch 18 volt. The vacuum is good but the filter clogs up very quickly and easily. Considering we are tradespeople, we deal with all types of building waste for collection purposes. The bosch actually has a smaller capacity than the Makita, I think. The people at vacuum cleaning stores always state having a collection bag is always better as the material clogs the filter in the case of the dyson vacuum cleaner. Perhaps a bag with a zip will be the most useful idea to incorporate in all the cordless portable vacuum cleaners. Im also hoping they can make a more power and bigger cordless vacuum. Bring out twin 36 volt 4 amp hour or more and double the amp opposed to double volt for run time. Makita do twin 18 volt in there tools so making a bigger vacuum would be great. I can't see why not. The ego 56 volt self walking cordless lawnmower with 7.5 amp hour is such testament that this can be done. I also don't like the fact of vacuums using desposable bags. Wouldn't it be better to use bags for as long as possible. One argument in the case of fine micro dust is the health hazard in disposing of the fine dust. But then again festool have a filter bag that can be reused. The price in Australia is $300 so rather expensive.
This is a case of complaining that your ford taurus doesnt haul much lumber. If you want a higher capacity rough job site vacuum then get the shop vac. They have a lot of different vacuum designs, i have 3 different ones and they are each good for different things. This is a great vaccum for smaller jobs with its much more compact yet still powerful design. Even smaller jobs i use the "dust buster" style for quick cleanup. But on larger jobs its the shop vac all the way. And as far as clogging fast, it doesnt do that with the split design. The "dust buster" style does clog faster with fine dust such as from sheetrock, but its very cheap and compact so its hard to complain.
I bought this on based on your review. Extremely disappointed. Your review really didn't give an accurate representation. I think your videos are great but this one is way off.
dont waste your money these are useless , the filter gets clogged really fast, once clogged it wont suck much and it gets clogged real fast if sucking up dust, waste of money
I am a HVACR Technician and I tell you is good for the small debris around the air handler and much more! Good review.
Exactly, thanks for the comment Felix
The Henry is still the best. OK, it's mains powered, but I've used mine for years without a bag with no problems. I'm a dry liner, so I deal with very fine dust. You can't beat it for power or capacity. Even better, I paid £2 for it off a car boot sale!
Good review but would of been great to hear it operating.
I wish they could do a Dyson style vacuum on the 18v platform.
How does it compare to Dyson products and to other Makita vacuums such as the XLC02RB1W or the DCL180Z?
Hi thanks for your video. I have also the same Cleaner since years, which is pretty good. Since a few days ago, the cleaner is not starting, I get both led (battery & filter) blinking very quickly during few seconds and then nothing. Battery is working very well on other makita machine & filter was cleaned up. Do you have any ideas ?
This would also be useful for vacuuming out vehicles.
I love the review but the capacity seems a little low and run time could be better. I wish they would make a vacuum that would use 1 or 2 batteries, that way if you just had a little area to clean 1 battery would be fine but if you had a large area 2 batteries would increase the run time.
12 minutes with 3AH batteries? Or with the 4/5 AH batteries? I got the 5AH batteries so it will be at least 20 minutes if yours were the 3AH ones.
For some reason you don't mention what size battery pack that 12/30 minute run time is with. You did say you wish it was longer. If that run time is with the smallest one (1.5 Ah) than a bigger pack will run longer. Makita offers 5 different battery sizes. The largest being 5Ah. (1.5, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0 Ah's). You didn't cover that at all, which I feel should have been covered but was over looked. Cheers.
sailingsolar sorry it’s a 4.0....... I would have much more detail in the article, if you ever have any detail questions check the article for
Will this attach to the makita drywall saw?
This isn't a review, no comparisons made.. It's an advert sponsored by makita.
Hi Nice review, I just bought me one today :)
Hi
The run-time on 5ah battery = 20 min on high and 50 min on low
Nice! The 5.0 Ah is impressive
To make longer running time perhaps, bring out higher amp hour batteries. This will be the case in years to come. Milwaukee have 9 amp hour batteries in their range. Other manufacturers will follow suit. Metabo have the 6.2 lihd I think they are called. So not a bad idea increasing running time for high demand cordless tools.
Im not sure of the battery technology Makita use in their cordless range compared to say Metabo, milwaukee or festool. From what I learned there are different grades of quality batteries these manufactures put in their tools.
Panasonic make the best batteries the last time I went into this years ago but things could change. I have some panasonic cordless drills. The batteries are already 9 years old and still going.
Ive been looking for a 18 volt cordless and portable vacuum since Porter Cable discontinued theirs. Do you know if this Makita accepts the PC 18 volt battery?
Update: Never mind...I just took a look at the price on Amazon. This one is way out of my price range. The PC was only 30 bucks.
no it does not
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cool piece of kit
This time Makita fails. Hoower for reactive service people for tradework? With that tiny little dust can??? How much does it fit in there? Also, because of the confined space, the fine dust will get into the filter right away, plugging it very quickly! They sould have paid less attention on the fancy spaceship design, and rather make something useful!
Greg, I agree. I have the bosch 18 volt. The vacuum is good but the filter clogs up very quickly and easily. Considering we are tradespeople, we deal with all types of building waste for collection purposes.
The bosch actually has a smaller capacity than the Makita, I think.
The people at vacuum cleaning stores always state having a collection bag is always better as the material clogs the filter in the case of the dyson vacuum cleaner.
Perhaps a bag with a zip will be the most useful idea to incorporate in all the cordless portable vacuum cleaners.
Im also hoping they can make a more power and bigger cordless vacuum. Bring out twin 36 volt 4 amp hour or more and double the amp opposed to double volt for run time.
Makita do twin 18 volt in there tools so making a bigger vacuum would be great.
I can't see why not. The ego 56 volt self walking cordless lawnmower with 7.5 amp hour is such testament that this can be done.
I also don't like the fact of vacuums using desposable bags.
Wouldn't it be better to use bags for as long as possible.
One argument in the case of fine micro dust is the health hazard in disposing of the fine dust. But then again festool have a filter bag that can be reused.
The price in Australia is $300 so rather expensive.
This is a case of complaining that your ford taurus doesnt haul much lumber. If you want a higher capacity rough job site vacuum then get the shop vac. They have a lot of different vacuum designs, i have 3 different ones and they are each good for different things. This is a great vaccum for smaller jobs with its much more compact yet still powerful design. Even smaller jobs i use the "dust buster" style for quick cleanup. But on larger jobs its the shop vac all the way. And as far as clogging fast, it doesnt do that with the split design. The "dust buster" style does clog faster with fine dust such as from sheetrock, but its very cheap and compact so its hard to complain.
Hi Rob you still using the Vacuum on jobs ? Hows is it holding up.
Yes it's a real nice, easy to use and clean Vac- light duty
I bought this on based on your review. Extremely disappointed. Your review really didn't give an accurate representation. I think your videos are great but this one is way off.
danieliscrazy111 what is it that you're disappointed with, is it the capacity?
The suction. If you do a review on the x2 and cordless vacuum (not the backpack one) I'm eager to see it.
This isn't a review, it's just an advert..
only the price should be around 40% of the actual price. its very overpriced dev..
dont waste your money these are useless , the filter gets clogged really fast, once clogged it wont suck much and it gets clogged real fast if sucking up dust, waste of money
Yup, don't bother to test it, who cares? What a bad review...