Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

Looking back over the past year, one thing conspicuously absent from this forum is a rabid Rainbow enthusiast.  Perhaps it is difficult to justify the outrageous price of these door to door wonders.   To some extent, a Rainbow owner has to believe in the Rainbow sales pitch and doesn't want to be confronted with any negative information about the Rainbow.    I also noticed that overstock.com is no longer selling the refurbished Rainbow SE's with the Wesselwerks small power nozzles.    Given the economy, it's got to be tough selling $2000+ vacuums - even if they can purify one's home. 

Yeah. I think Hyla looks like a great machine.

Can you explain the Geyser separator? How is it different from the Rainbow Separator.

Also, can the E series be rain without the hepa? Would that essentially be like using a pre E series Rainbow? Or are they designed only to work with the hepa?

Does Hyla's internals get dirty like some Rainbow's?

Do most vacuum shops service them? I know they are very popular in Europe

Mark,
The first Hyla had a removable separator that needed cleaning after each use. The newer design is more cylindrical called NST, New Separation Technology. I do not know how the GST (Geyser Separation Technology) differs but it is supposed to create a geyser that washes the air more thoroughly, eliminating any need for addiitonal filtration. The neck for air intake is contained inside the water bucket. It is a bucket, completely open. The air intake is actually submerged under the surface of the water. There is a separate air path for air washing and cleaning. The website has an animation showing this. The Aqua Air is remarkably like the Hyla, with the addition of a variable speed control. The newest Hyla has no bucket clamps, just  a bucket handle that serves the same function. The accessories for the Hyla are more numerous, but the Wessel Werk power nozzle is the same.  Despite the larger water container, both machines are nearly  the same height and width as the Rainbow. There is also the Robot, the Ocean Blue, and the Delphin competing in the separator based water filtration vacuum cleaner market.  No idea how they are faring. The Turmix I think became the Ocean Blue. It looks a lot like the former Vac Man, which I think was a reincarnation of the Turmix from Mexico. I had a Hyla, one of the first in the US. I did not keep it because it used the old 10in wessel werk PN with widely spaced soft bristles.

I have always liked cleaning with a water filtration vac, deep cleaning, that is. Quick pickups lasting less the 5 minutes, not so much.

Trebor