Dyson digital motor

After nearly 200 years, the electric motor has finally moved on. The Dyson digital motor is smaller and lighter, with no carbon dust emissions.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Dyson
• vacuum
• cleaner
• digital
• motor
• handheld
• airblade
• handdryer

[Bushougoma]

Carbon emissions? You mean carbon dust from the universal motor brushes that most vacuums use. It has nothing to do with environmental Co2 emissions.

Wow a brushless motor! What a breakthrough my furnace, dishwasher, dryer, washing machine, air compressor and even cheap electric fans I have use brushless motors!!

They're called induction motors and were invented by Nicola Tesla.

[Rebelgium]

It's called a brushless motor... Don't pretend you invented it.

[robinclar]

I% inspiration and 99% sheer fluke (plus heavy spin)! No wonder it took him 20 yrs to get his vacuum cleaner working.

[venxxxxx]

lol Dyson is copying the things that already out then file for a patent and claim its his 'inventions' The cyclone technology was also copied as he explained how he got the idea. Now its this so called "digital" motor which make Faraday look like an idiot of the past.. I like Dyson products, I like how this man fiddling around to make things work better. But by no means he "invented" these. His ads might be appealing to an audience with IQs of apes, but he isn't fooling anyone else.

[RagnorBC]

@ParkRyan123

So, you're saying that Dyson's claim to have invented a motor has actually got nothing to do with the motor itself, but with what is driven by that motor?

[ParkRyan123]

The impeller assembly is what makes this motor different from any other motor. Other conventional motors use aluminum based materials for the impeller. They are a two dimensional plane and are large and fragile whereas the DDM(Dyson Digital motor) uses carbon based materials for the impeller and the impeller has a three dimensional curving profile. It is compact and very robust. The same would apply to the recent Dyson handheld vacuum motors developed.

[fdjizm]

Dyson is to electric motors what al gore is to the internet.

[ukeemail]

"Copper coils fail" How on earth do copper coils fail. Most motors "burn out" when the bearings or brushes fail, stalling the motor which as a results burns out the copper coils --- which actually involves the enamel coating on the copper coils (to stop the individual wires from shorting) gets too hot and melts/burns away. Copper however is not destroyed in this process.

Also: Thankyou Mr Dyson: You have invented the Brushless DC motor, in which you could find in every computer since 1990!

[bazengao]

can some 1 pull this guy's head out of his ass?

[bazengao]

I'VE LEARNED NOTHING!!

[MrHistorian123]

There is no such thing as a "digital motor". Don't be fooled by terminology.

Dyson is using the word "digital" to mean "brushless" and brushless motors have been around for generations.

I have just got rid of both my Dysons because they had low suction, blocked too easily and were unreliable and badly made with cheap plastic parts.

I replaced them with a Sebo, which is superior in all respects.