Germany · since 1964
Publishes suction in millibars when almost nobody else publishes anything
Einhell sits in the value half of the German market and specifies its machines better than that position suggests. On this site it appears in wet and dry vacuums and ash vacuums, and in both families it publishes a figure the competition leaves out.
The TE-VC 2340 gives 225 mbar; the ash vacuums give 170 and 175 mbar. Those numbers let the machines be compared with Bosch’s professional range and with each other. Wattage — which is what most listings offer — describes consumption, not performance.
The SACL machines carry a 2,000 W automatic tool socket. That is enough for a mitre saw or a plunge saw, not just a palm sander, and it is the specification that decides whether a vacuum can genuinely serve as dust extraction.
Steel drums, aluminum tubes and, on the 2032 DW, an aluminum hose. Einhell also states plainly that glowing material must not be picked up — the correct instruction, and one that many competitors leave to the imagination. Cold ash, twenty-four hours, on every machine in that family.
800 W · 170 mbar · 18 l steel drum · aluminum tube
Eighteen liters of tinplate and an aluminum tube, at the price of a cheap household vacuum.
Best for: An occasional fire or a pellet stove, where the vacuum is used a few times a month
850 W · 175 mbar · 20 l steel drum · aluminum hose
The 1830 with a metal hose and two more liters — and the metal hose is the upgrade that counts.
Best for: Regular winter use on a wood burner, where the machine is emptied often and the hose sees warm surfaces
L class · HEPA filter · button filter cleaning · 2,000 W tool socket
Einhell's site-grade answer: dust class L with a HEPA element and a socket rated for a real power tool.
Best for: Site and workshop use where the vacuum runs off a saw, and where L-class filtration with a HEPA element is the requirement
1,500 W · 225 mbar · 40 l · 9 m (30 ft) working radius · HEPA
Forty liters, 225 mbar and nine meters of reach — the only machine here that publishes its suction.
Best for: Building work, a large workshop, or anywhere the drum is emptied by the barrow rather than the bin
