Performance

The Mach V1 and Mach V1 ultra both are supported with the eufy cleaning app, so before getting into testing I did connect our Mach V1 Ultra to the app to check out the features it offers. I already had the app installed for the RoboVac so I just had to go to the add device page and the Mach V1 was picked up right away, clicking on the device started the setup. It asks you to name the device, put in your wifi information, then you are all set.

    

The eufy clean app has an ad for their latest devices up at the top. Then it will list all devices you have connected below that. Clicking on the Mach V1 opens up the page and it is similar to what we saw with the Robovac, there is a picture of the vacuum in the middle. Up top, you can see the volume level, battery level, and current status. The button in the top right is the menu. Then down at the bottom, you can see if Ozone and Jet Dry are turned on.

  

The menu has a list of different pages starting with the cleaning history which will show each time and how long you have used it. You can change the voice settings which just changes the volume of the voice notifications between silent, medium, and high and you can change the language as well. Accessory Services shows the status of the rolling brush, filter, and descaling schedules. That is also where you can reset those. You can also update the firmware which ours did have an update when I set things up. There is also the device info page which has the Mac address and serial number for your specific Mach V1. None of the app features are really needed however, where the RoboVac does need the app everything you can do here could just be done using the built-in screen. The app also doesn’t stay connected to the Mach V1 after it finishes charging as well so it isn’t like you can use it to get things ready to go ahead of time by turning the steam mode on a few minutes before you go to use it.

        

The most useful function really, which still isn’t a big deal is that you can check the status during the post-use cleaning mode. You can do the same with the built-in display but because the cleaning mode takes a long time you can check it remotely and it does show the time remaining as well as give you the option to turn if off if needed.

  

With things set up, I then started by filling up the cleaning product into the skinny container under the handle and filling up the clean water container. While I wouldn’t consider us to be dirty, I did let things get extra dirty knowing that I would be testing the Mach V1 Ultra soon, and with 5 cats in the house as well that also means a lot of extra hair, dirt, and other bits like cat food and in some rooms litter so it would be a good test for the cleaner. When you power it up the light under the clean water tank lights up so you can see its level and your initial setup will also include a quick walkthrough on the display on the handle as well to show you what each of the buttons does. You also set your language during this.

Getting good action shots of the Mach V1 Ultra proved to be extremely difficult and even though we have just about every type of flooring in our house including newer VLP, Linoleum, original hardwoods, and also some laminate flooring as well none of them really showed up as dirty in pictures as they are in real life or as clean as they were after running the Mach V1. That variety along with having a few rugs as well did make for great testing. I was especially curious about the laminate flooring because it as well as the original hardwood flooring are both sensitive to moisture if left on the floor. So it is important that the Mach V1 Ultra does a good job of sucking up as much as possible and with the jet dry blade on the back also drying as you go and it did that well. It is a big improvement over mopping in that aspect where I would have to get it as dry as possible for those areas. This also meant that the Mach V1 could do a better job cleaning rather than being a glorified dust mop. The biggest thing I noticed was even in rooms that I mop often there was an overall layer of dirt that wasn’t getting cleaned. I had to run the Mach V1 Ultra a few times before I got past that.

The Mach V1 Ultra has 16,800 Pa of suction when running in full power modes. For comparison, our eufy RoboVac X8 has two 2000 pa motors. Our main manual vacuum is a Dyson DC65 Animal and that has a suction rating of 245 AW which translates to 12740 pa which was a surprise, I expected that vacuum to have a higher rating than the Mach V1. The Mach V1 doesn’t directly compare to our Dyson, it is designed to clean up floors and just can also handle carpets here and there when on its suction mode. I did try it out on the rug in my office. I’ve been putting off replacing this rug for years now as I’m not a fan at all. Partially because with the cats it just gets a complete film over it with hair making it always look dingy. Secretly I was kind of hoping that the Mach V1 would ruin it and push me to finally replace it. But it didn’t do that. I just did one spot in the middle of the picture, trying to also show just how dirty it was before cleaning. In the area that I hit the Mach V1 did clean it up, I had to run over it a few times but even with our Dyson it takes 2-3 swipes on this rug so the 3-4 that the Mach V1 took wasn’t too bad, especially with just how dirty it was.

The Mach V1 Ultra has steam as an added option and this was one I was excited about being able to put to use in rooms like our kitchen and especially the bathroom. Once you switch over to steam mode you will have to wait for it to build up pressure. To show that the front of the Mach V1 has LEDs across the front edge. They start to slowly turn on as the pressure rises and the bar is full when it is ready to go. The red bar stays on the entire time you use steam mode letting you know of the danger. It does mist out steam front the front edge and if you look closely in one or two of the pictures you can see it coming out the front when the Mach V1 Ultra isn’t being pushed.

In my testing, I haven’t had any situation where I have had to use the Mach V1 to clean up a big liquid spill but that is one of the potential uses for it. I was, however, able to try it on a few sticky spots from soda leaked from a trash bag and I also cleaned up spilled ranch to see if it would get it all in one swipe and it did. One thing I did learn though is you have to retrain your brain slightly. My first thought is to use it like I would a carpet vacuum, standing in one spot and going back and forth to the area around me. But the Mach V1 and the V1 Ultra are designed really to always go forward. It lays down water or with the Ultra steam at the front and behind that is the squeegee and suction. Then at the back you also have the jet dry blade blowing out if you turn that on. None of that works ideally if you go back and forth. It cleans when it goes forward then will lay down more water or steam when in smart or steam modes when you pull it back. Then your floor is a lot wetter. With that in mind, walking with it back and forth across the room works better and if there is a directional texture to the floor like real or fake wood grain going in that direction will help get a better clean as well because the brush will get down into the groves better. Going fast will get a quicker clean and leave things wetter, going slower will clean better, and especially with the jet dry blade will dry the floor behind you.

The cleaning modes were surprisingly confusing for me. When I read the instructions they all make sense, but later when I would go to use the Mach V1 Ultra there were two times that I was confused why it wasn’t putting down water. Here is the breakdown, you have Smart, Suction, and Steam modes. The Steam mode is easy to understand. But for some reason, I kept getting hung up on the smart and suction modes. If you think of them as mop and vacuum modes though it makes more sense and fits what they do better.

Another area where they could make things easier, at least for how I use the Mach V1 is with how it displays the dirt level. When I am cleaning I am mostly focused on the floor and where I am going with the Mach V1. I’m not looking at the screen at all so it wasn’t until after a few uses that I noticed there is a meter that shows up on the screen that lets you know how dirty the spot you were cleaning was, this works with the smart mode to lower or increase the power as you clean to conserve battery power. The Mach V1 does have the perfect way to display this in a location that I would see when cleaning, however. Use the same lighting on the front edge that the steam mode uses to display the steam pressure as it builds up. This way you can see and know to slow down or go over a slot again if necessary.

Being cordless means that you don’t have to be tied to one plug as you clean so you can run around anywhere in the house quickly. For me, I have been doing a deep clean from time to time and hitting everything but in between those you can just hit the high-traffic areas or if you have to clean up a spill you can hit a few other dirty areas before you clean the Mach V1 out. You do have to keep battery life in mind depending on how long you run the Mach V1, it has a total of 82 minutes of battery life when running in smart mode as long as you aren’t overriding things with the high traffic button but in my use, I was able to clean up our a majority of the house without using half of the battery even while almost exclusively running the high power mode button the entire time and with jet dry and ozone both running. Frankly, the bigger concern for me was the overall water capacity. Every time I have used the Mach V1 I would need to refill the clean water at least once. It helps if you make sure it is topped off before you start, I often fill it up when doing the cleanup mode at the end and forget that uses some of the water.

Going in I was a little concerned about the consumables. The Mach V1 will need its brush replaced from time to time as well as the filter. You also have cleaning solution and every once in a while there is also the descaling mix that they provide four of. You do get an extra filter and brush thankfully but you will still eventually have to buy those and they do all add up. The price of the cleaning solution was especially expensive to me, I am still hoping to find something I can get locally to keep that cost down. But in my testing so far I have been surprised at how little you use the cleaning solution even though when it is on you can smell it. They provide you with 300 ml of solution and the Mach V1 holds 120 ml in total. According to eufy what is in the Mach V1 will last you 30 days if you are using the Mach V1 for 15 minutes every day, meaning at that rate you will get about 2 and a half months out of it. Another way to look at it is you can expect to use 4ml or grams of cleaning solution for each full tank of clean water.

While the Mach V1 Ultra does make cleaning up easier, you don’t completely avoid having to deal with nasty mop water. You do have to clean out the dirty water container when you are all finished up or if it gets full during use. The filter, cap, and dirty water container all come out together and all three will need to be cleaned up. The filter sits on top and in my experience, this can be almost completely clean, or with our cats, it will sometimes get a layer of cat hair on it. I clean any big stuff off of it then run it under the water and it cleans up easily. The lid for the dirty water container which has a trap to catch any bigger items is going to be similar. If you have swept and don’t suck up hair or big items it should be mostly clean. In my case, I have been running the Mach V1 Ultra over anything and everything, vacuuming a rug, and also have the cats and that shows on the amount of nasty crud that is sitting on the trap. Unless you are dumping this all in the toilet, your best bet is to take this by the trash can and tap it on the inside to get most of this in the trash just like you would with your normal vacuum. It looks a lot worse but this is the same stuff your vacuum would pick up only it has also gotten wet so you don’t have any dust to deal with. Once you get the big stuff off this rinses off and is good to go back in. Before you do that you will need to dump the actual water and rinse that out as well. Once cleaned up, it all goes back together without any trouble. Even with how dirty this looks which is a worst-case scenario, as long as you don’t just dump all of the hair and trash into your sink and clog things up cleaning the Mach V1 up isn’t too hard. But you do have to do it every time you use it

The other part of cleaning is running the brush cleaning mode which one of the steps is emptying and cleaning the filter and dirty water as shown above so don’t clean that out before you start the cleanup mode. You could just use the Mach V1 Ultra and put it up to charge and not worry about it. But it won't be long before things start to smell and once the brush starts to smell it will put that smell down when it cleans as well so it is best to avoid that. The cheaper cleaners just have a removable pad that you have to wash. The Mach V1 on the other hand will run ozone into the water then it spins the brush while cleaning it up. Next, it sucks as much water as it can out of the brush while spinning it. Then you clean out the dirty water. Then after that, it dries the brush over time by blowing hot air onto it while rotating it. The entire process takes 40-50 minutes. It isn’t instant and you will hear it run for a while but it is better than the brush getting funky and in the 3 weeks I have been using the Mach V1 Ultra it hasn’t developed any smells so far. When you get to the dirty water removal step all of the lighting on the Mach V1 Ultra lights up red to let you know in addition to the voice itself telling you and the screen so you aren’t going to miss that. The Mach V1 Ultra charges at the same time so once you empty the container you can let the rest of the cleaning process run and it will be clean and charged for the next time you use it.

  

  

The ozone process is cool as well. The clean water container lights up and while it is running you can see it pumping in from the bottom almost like a cloud of smoke in the water.

As with anything that goes in our house, noise is always a concern, especially with something like the Mach V1 Ultra which disrupts things when you run it. Like with a full-sized vacuum, our cats know right when they see it to run away. But unlike the full-sized vacuum, some of them do come back out and get curious and sniff at it. They do the same thing with the RoboVac X8 as well when it is running. This is because the Mach V1 Ultra when running is quieter than our Dyson. That isn’t to say it is quiet, however. I brought out the decibel meter for reference. Our base noise level is 34.8 db with this meter in our house. When running in suction or smart mode the Mach V1 was 71 db, pressing the button would increase that up to 74 db. The noise level when it is in cleaning mode after cleaning was similar. Cleaning the brush was 74.3 db and when it was sucking the water out of the brush it was 71.4 db. Later once the initial cleaning is done, with the fan running to dry the brush it was 49.4 db. This was loud enough to be noticeable but not enough to be an issue.