I am notorious for not leaving anything stock in our house and our electric swifter is no exception. The NiCad 1600mah batteries totally suck the big one and deliver sub-optimal power to the 12v motor. The result was a light sucking that barely picked up dog fur.
The other thing was run time which was about 2 minutes.
My fix was simply to give that stocker motor some juice to work with by feeding it with a 10,000 mh Maxamps lipo pack. The other option would be to repurpose a Nimh pack to run the vacuum as shown above.
Simple hack. Remove the internal battery and add a deans plug and feed it through a couple strategic cuts at the back seam. Now your swifter is powered via your quick charging and running Rc packs that can be charge on a real charger. I haven't tried a 3s pack yet because the new and improved lipo powered swifter is about twice as powerful and runs literally for a month of Swiffering.
UPDATE - This has been an AWESOME upgrade to our swiffer and I could swiffer a gymnasium with this thing and still have juice left over. As of the middle of January, I am just now recharging my Lipo pack for the first time and it will had 11% of the charge left. Before the stock Swiffer would not even pick up the dog food bits off the floor, but now it sucks them up with authority. The floor has never looked cleaner. Even if you don't want to run Lipo on your Swiffer, I would highly recommend upgrading the NiCd 6 Cell stock pack to a higher Mh 7-cell NiMh pack. This should give you about the same power I am getting with the Lipo pack, but obviously the runtime will not be as long as my 10,000Mh Lipo pack.
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