Dyson V7 Animal Pro Stick Vacuum Reviews
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A great, lightweight cleaner that is an ideal complement to a larger vacuum, the Dyson V7 Animal excels at cleaning up animal fur
Dyson’s V-series cleaners get a middle sibling in the form of the V7, tested here in its pet-hair-busting Animal guise. A whole lot quieter than the V6 and slightly more svelte than the V8, it has most of the flagship’s main features.
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Light, brilliantly balanced, great tools, superb suction and pet-hair cleaning capabilities that are better than even pet-specific mains-powered cleaners – the V7 Animal is a great choice for many. It doesn’t quite have the all-round power of the company’s flagship Cyclone V10 Absolute cleaner, which is designed to replace a corded cleaner. However, if you don’t want that and have a decent plug-in cleaner, the V7 is a quality cleaner that complements, rather than replaces, your existing cleaner. Its small size and lightweight body make it very easy to use, too.
On paper, at least, the new Dyson V7 cordless cleaners sit between the original V6 and the flagship V8 models. The V7 range draws much of its design from the newer V8 but is lighter, quieter and runs for longer in normal power mode. The key change is its smaller, lighter battery, and a jiggling of the suction power versus run-time ratio.
On normal power mode, the V7’s run-time is claimed to be around 30 minutes with the powered head attached, some 5 minutes longer than the V8. The trade-off is slightly lower suction power of 21AW (airwatts) compared to the V8’s 28AW in this mode. Punch both models up to Max power and they’ll run for about 6 minutes, the V7 delivering 100AW while the V8 has 15% more at 115AW. The old V6 also delivers 100AW on Max power for around 6 minutes, but its higher 28AW on normal power means it’s good for only 20 minutes run-time. Got all that? No, me neither – so here’s a comparison table.
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Of course, the Animal version on test here is only part of a lineup that also features the flagship Total Clean model and the slightly more affordable Motorhead edition.
Knowing that we have two dogs as part of the incumbent test team, Dyson sent us the V7 Animal to review at a not inconsiderable £419.99 asking price. Ouch.
Starting with the main cleaner body, it’s essentially a slightly shrunken V8 with a smaller battery, which makes it lighter in the hand. The bin is the same 0.54-litre volume of the V8 models and emptying is achieved in the same way – namely pulling up the big red handle on top. This pulls the cyclone out of the bin to free the debris, and then opens the flap at the bottom to empty. It works well, and not once did we have fluff and hair stuck in the V7 that we had to dig out manually.
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Through the centre of the bin is the main lifetime filter that pulls out from the top and is fully washable. While the V8 and V6 models have a second rear-mounted cartridge filter, the V7 forgoes this extra filtration, so we’d expect dust emissions to be a little higher with this model. Charging is via a Dyson-designed wall-wart charger, which either plugs directly into the handle of the cleaner or into the convenient wall-dock supplied.
Switching it on and off is via a spring trigger. This doesn’t lock, so switches off the suction as soon as you release the trigger – the theory being that the spring trigger encourages you to stop the motor between cleaning duties (say, moving between areas) so best preserves run-times.
The V7 Animal certainly isn’t short of tools; it has five of them plus the tube. They clip on and off the cleaner with ease, are robust, well designed and very effective at their dedicated task.
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The main business floorhead is the Dyson Direct Drive cleaner head. This offers an electric motor-powered brush bar that combines both stiffer nylon and softer static carbon bristles to cater for different sized debris. Suitable for carpets and hard floors, the head has a freely articulating neck, supporting rollers and it dismantles easily for cleaning.
For smaller areas such as the stairs, upholstery and the dogs’ beds, the Dyson Mini Motorised tool has a brush bar that’s similarly powered by its own built-in motor. This tool forgoes the articulating neck, but we can forgive this since its stiff bristles do a great job of picking up pet hair.
Three non-powered tools include a good-sized crevice tool with a unique nozzle shape and side vents designed to resist it sucking onto surfaces. The wide nozzle tool with a slide-down dusting brush is great for quick clean-ups. We left this tool attached to the body in the dock, ready to pounce on pet hair tumbleweed at the pull of a trigger.
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The V7 Animal also comes with Dyson’s latest Soft Dusting Brush tool. This is an even better shape for dusting shelves and high-up surfaces than the main 2-in-1 tool, and features very soft bristles for delicate cleaning. My keyboard has never looked so crumb-free.
All the tools can be clipped directly onto the main handheld unit, or the funky purple extension tube. The clips are a work of plastic genius and feel easier to operate yet more secure than pretty much any other manufacturer’s tool-clip mechanism on the market. In addition, the clips are on the tools, rather than the tube or body, which makes removing and replacing tools with one hand easy.
The design with the motor above your hand and the battery pack below gives the Dyson V-series cleaners the best in-hand balance of any handheld on the market. The even lighter battery on the V7 improves on the feel further still. It’s super-comfy in the hand and makes its fairly bijou 2.3kg weight feel even lighter than it is.
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The V8 was already the best functionally designed cordless cleaner on the market – and, thanks to its hushed tones, lighter weight and great balance, we reckon the V7 is even better.
As with all Dyson handheld cleaners, the power is offered in two stages – normal and Max – and is selected with a slide switch on top. Run-times for the V7 Animal are promised at 30 minutes and 6 minutes respectively.
The built-in battery charges in 3.5 hours, either freestanding directly connected to the wall charger or sat in its excellent wall dock. The battery isn’t removable, though, so there’s no chance of grabbing a spare battery for an extended cleaning session.
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The two motorised floorheads also draw their power from the battery pack, with power plugs built into the tool connectors and cables neatly hidden in the main tube. Our run-time tests are all using the powered tools, but expect to get an extra 10-20% run-time if you’re simply using the dusting or detail tools.
The battery did indeed charge from flat in around 3.5 hours with an LED indicator that’s orange when fully expended, blue while charging, and goes out when the unit is fully charged.
Heading around the house with the Direct Drive floorhead attached, we cleaned for a near textbook 30mins 30secs on average from a single charge on normal power. Several test sessions on various floor surfaces resulted in very little variation – from hard floors (31 minutes) to carpet pile so deep that you could loose a tribe of pigmies in it (29.5 minutes).
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That’s a significant amount of cleaning time if you consider that is actual cleaning. The trigger makes you switch off when you’re moving between rooms, straightening the cushions or answering the door. Thanks to the lithium battery and Dyson’s control electronics, you get full power right up until it cuts out too.
Set the V7 to Max power with the Direct Drive floorhead and there’s a significant boost in suction. We managed just shy of six and a half minutes in this mode, and half a minute or so more with the non-powered tools attached. You’ll be surprised at the amount of cleaning you can get done in that time – and it’s great for quick spills or smaller areas such as the stairs.
With practice you can easily get around a medium-sized room in that time and, having had the V6 and V8 on long-term test for many months now, we tend to default to quick clean-ups on the highest power setting. It’s a little and often approach to house vacuuming and it really works.
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From the first pull of the trigger, the V7 is markedly quieter than the V8, and the pitch tone is much softer and less aggressive than the jet-engine-like V6. We measured the V7 at 61-62dB in normal power mode at arm’s length and a very reasonable 64-66dB on Max power.
Given that Dyson’s motor is spinning at over 120, 000rpm, and the machine delivers mains-like suction power on this higher setting, that’s mighty quiet. Those figures are way, way down on the previous
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