If you only bought it recently, perhaps you could return it and get your money back? Just a thought.

He's probably right, but it might also be a fire hazard, and it might wear out faster. The first of those isn't likely as big a risk as for other appliances, given that there is generally no reason to run a vacuum cleaner other than when you're actually holding it, so turn it off if you smell smoke, and the second point is what it is, the vacuum might run for years, ... or it might not!

I bought a Dyson a few months before we moved here. I gave it to my in-laws. I was as sick as a pig because in 1996 I couldn't find a bagless vac anywhere in New Jersey. Now they are readily available.

Not only that, it is a brand name that has become a verb meaning to perform it's purpose - such a successful marketing ploy, that many people don't even know it. Like Google from the 1950's.

The power of the vacuum motor would be less as voltage = current x resistance , if we ignore the impedance and capacitance, we can assume the resistance is constant therefore as the voltage is halfed so the current would also be halved.
Hence the power would be a quarter of the UK power as power = voltage x current.

Agreed, except that I said "for the same power" i.e.if you buy a US Dyson of the same model with the same power, the current drawn by the US appliance will be twice that drawn by the UK appliance because the voltage is halved.

I have heard that Dysons are modular and designed to be easy to change out parts - I don't know if this is true. If so, you may be able to buy an American motor module and replace it.

Dyson had a US spec motor made by Mitsubishi I think for the US market.

UK one won't be much use and even if you did want to lug a transformer around the house, the motor won't last nearly as long and home owners insurance might think twice if you made a claim after your house burnt down in case of a fire.

You could, but that would be the bulk of just buying a new Dyson in the US.

Can get a refurb Dyson for $200 which is less than a new motor....plus it's a bit of a mammoth ball ache to take apart unless you've got a set of those torque screwdrivers and taking it to a shop to do would probably cost you as much as the motor.

There's just something inside me that regards Dyson's as marketing junk, rather than first class works of engineering like a Miele. This is my current model http://www.amazon.com/Miele-S5281-Ca.../dp/B0038JPDJI and I'm loath to give it up for a Dyson here in the US.

I'm still staggered at the huge price differences between Miele appliances in the UK and US!

I was sceptical about the Dyson, but it works, and ours works as well today as it did 6-7 years ago when we bought it.... it is still capable of pulling a strange grey paste-like dust out of the carpet. You could not pay me to take a Miele instead, though I suspect the Miele might survive falling down the stairs, when I'm fairly certain the Dyson would not!

++ Three dog household and our Dyson handles it with ease. Wouldn't even consider anything else.

I can confirm that a DC14 and DC41 will both survive going down the stairs. However, if you plan on doing it on a regular basis I would go for the more tank luke DC14!

iRoomba FTW!

Roomba...we have wooden floors and I wouldn't have anything else. I loved the Dyson I had in the UK...4 dogs and carpets.