Hoover Constellation vacuum cleaner running on 9 volt battery

[6452ss]

I wonder if it works with a filter queen?

[giammyzanna]

If you put like 4 or 5 9volt batteries in series it could work XD

[theonelinerkid]

id just have this vacuumm cos its citche and would look great in the right designer home

[Emanuelcoco]

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[Membrane556]

I wonder how well one would run on 13 nine volt batteries.

[yuandrew]

I don't have any fresh 9 volt batteries but I know my Dirt Devil MVP Swivel Glide will run on 12 volts in the same manner.

It takes around 36 volts before it will begin to "suck" anything up though, maybe slightly over 40 to be effective. Got any 18 volt drill batteries on hand ?

[88ariesk]

ok, this is no bullshit. I just did it. You have to touch the terminals really fast with the battery. it will move it..

[wilkes85]

How well does it hover on carpet?

[MMMMMDIESEL]

i just tried it on my vintage hoover and it works!!

[JSneaker]

OOH! So THIS is the prize they gave to the losers of the game shows..... LOL BT

[a120068020]

I remember my mum having one of these, a white and blue one. Good stuff.

[wilkes85]

@a120068020 I think a shiny silver one would be cool. It would look like Sputnik 1!

[daewooparts]

looks way better then todays POS chinese plastic vacuums

[SuperDisbelief]

@daewooparts POS? Well since I failed flushing it down the toilet, I would not consider it as POS. Maybe scrap-suckers but not POS.

[Jallge]

can you actually clean anything up running off the battery?

[gatrwrks]

This really cool. I didn't know you could run a vacuum cleaner on a 9V battery.

[gli7utubeo]

OMG , my famliy had one of those in the 1960s; haven't seen one since. Sounded like a jet engine.

[themaritimeman]

Wow, what the heck!?!? That's awesome! But even though it's DC compatible, I don't get how a 120V motor can even budge off 9V!? It must normally spin at thousands of RPM? Even though, with the amps of current I would think it would draw, I wouldn't think a tiny 9V battery would do a thing! This goes against everything i've ever learned in every way....

I gotta try this on our Hoover Celebrity III (which is also a glider, the Celebrity series succeeded the Constellation)!

[themaritimeman]

Haha, it worked! I first tried it with a 9V battery, and all I got was some good sparkage and a quiet click inside the vacuum - probably because the vacuum was redneck modified years ago with a VERY long cord, the battery has only 7.5V left in it, or both. When I tried it with a 12V battery, though, it spun up!

[uxwbill]

@themaritimeman It is sort of a tradeoff. The battery can actually supply quite a bit of current to help the motor start and run. It won't "like" or be able to do it for any length of time. It could also get very hot or explode in a severe case...this should be pretty safe, though.

[coolbluelights]

or maybe I need to use duracell... :D

[coolbluelights]

wow that runs a lot faster on 9 volts than mine does! I guess the older the better!

[umajunkcollector]

750 watts at 120VAC = 6.2 amps = about 1hp

750 watts at 9VDC = 83 amps!!!

(of course that would be full load and full speed).

I suppose that Duracell may put out one amp for a little while???

IF you try a car battery, the power cord may get HOT!

[umajunkcollector]

We had a Hoover Constellation = early 70s, and it was very used when we got it, so it was 60s for sure. No wheels, it rode on a cushion of AIR. It had the suction of a shop vac too, but it was quiet. I have the flying saucer version now.

They have universal AC/DC motors (so it should work with a light dimmer for variable speed).

I still like Hoovers better than any other brandnames, best value for the buck.

Kirby SUX - heh heh heh!

[Vinylrecordsneverdie]

That's is so cool!

[AG3304]

Surprising it'll do that,l ran a washing machine motor off a 12V battery once mind.Not very fast,but it did go...

[WackoX1337]

America has weird power plugs :S

[strizzuth]

@WackoX1337 NO U! ;)

[daewooparts]

@WackoX1337 AUSSIE PLUGS look like "SCREAM" mask of terror !

[captain150]

@daewooparts It's interesting, but the Aussie plug was actually invented and used for a period of time in North America.

The thing I like about American/Canadian plugs is how small they are. The Brits have an enormous plug that has a ground pin for everything (I know it's to open the shutters in the wall socket), but it's ridiculous to use a ground pin for everything when not everything needs one.

[giammyzanna]

You should try it with one of those 12 volts car batteries

[fortyfiveplayer]

jeez- look at the sparks on the battery terminal! You can also use the motor in this as a generator- fun stuff.

[Maxxarcade]

Hey, that's cool! I gotta try that on a couple of mine. I think the Kirby 560 might support DC also.

[CavemanPerson]

Learned something new today! 

[Mrtechguy94]

LOL that's a neat trick. But it must drain the battery very fast.

[phantom3rdchannel]

that vacuum is probably early to late sixtys. awesome trick nice vacuum.

[vwestlife]

@phantom3rdchannel The Constellation 86 was first introduced in 1958, but Hoover kept producing it in different colors up through the 1970s.

[phantom3rdchannel]

@vwestlife :P google said 60's i was probably looking at the wrong model.

[wilkes85]

lol that's awesome

And is that one of those hovering vacuums? very space age.

[vwestlife]

@wilkes85 Yes, it's very quiet and will glide along floors and low-pile carpets.

[darkmagelover]

cool wared you get that and will that work on other thingz?

[coffeefish]

I have to try that one.

[jefferyb304]

I wonder if my vintage hoover upright will do this.

[pcwalker]

I've seen plates that read like that before. Never really understood what it meant...until now. :-)

[clubcar98]

Hahaha!

That is crazy! Who would have thought...

[artifactingreality]

nice