So, here is it: a 4.8V Rowenta vacuum. Useful if you want to clean your car or something else, it can be recharged with its pedestal.

If you are interested in the power of the pedestal, it reads:

• Input: 230V - 50 Hz - 7W (AC)
• Output: 7.5V - 300 mA (DC)

There's several parts in this vacuum:

• The tip.
• The reservoir which contains the dust and the debris.
• The engine (the most interesting part. It will be torn down, don't worry...).
• The pedestal (we'll take a look in it later).
• And the power supply.

By the way, the reservoir contains 3 parts (from the top to the bottom): the housing, the container and the filter.

And the top if the engine. Nothing interesting... yet. Just notice the power: 4.8V and the intensity of the output.

Let's go (let's start with the engine): with our beloved screwdriver, remove these 2 Philips #00 screws.

After that, we can see the back of the motherboard.

Now, remove these 2 screws (Philips #00 again).

Then, with a flat screwdriver (put the screwdriver between the both parts and turn it), remove the back and let's take a look inside.

Now, here is the innards of our lovely vacuum.

More precisely, we can see several wires (to connect the charger light (2), the switch (3), the engine (2), the power wires (2)).

In green: the engine, very noisy but it's the core of the machine.

And in orange: one of the 4 batteries (4*1.2V). They look like C batteries...

The motherboard: the top contains 2 capacitors, one chip, several wires and several resistors.

But the bottom is not interesting (there's just a lot of resistors).

With the same screwdriver, remove the only screw which secures the handle.

But to have access in the handle, you'll have to use a flat screwdriver because it's difficult to open it.

However, I wanted it to still works. So, I didn't go further in the teardown. Sorry...

Since the teardown is incomplete, We will take a look in the pedestal as well.

Firstly, remove the 4 pieces of rubber to have access to 4 Philips screws.

Since the hole is very dept, use a real screwdriver and not a little one...

After that, lift the plastic piece without forcing too much.

Actually, the mechanism is easy to understand: the power supply is divided into 2 wires and each wire is separated and plugged to a conductive piece (the same as the vacuum gets).

That's all. I hope you liked this teardown...