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I built a special drying tunnel using an industrial fan, takes about 5 min to dty them out
S0 easy to repair, just takes ages for the Cyclones to dry out after giving them a good blasting!
Old DC05 and new DC31 Animal.
There's still loads of DC05's about, and no shortage of spare parts for them. How do you find the DC31? We don't see so many of those hand helds.
But batteries are quite expensive, chargers tend to fail and if they suck up a bit of water they are killed stone dead. Parts are not as plentiful as with other ones either. We have had quite a few with fried circuit boards in them. Tellingly, the warranty on them is shorter too.
Perhaps later ones improved somewhat?
Do you feel my practice of leaving it plugged in all the time is likely to give me a potentially shorter battery & charger life than planning ahead and charging immediately before use each time? I don't use it a lot so I'm now thinking I might be better not having it on all the time. Having said that I just checked and it's been plugged in for about 18 months so far and is fine (touches wood).