A few observations:
1. Fuses/Circuit Breakers?
After that other thread with the burned internal wiring, it seemed crazy to me that this unit had no internal circuit protection, but after perusing some wiring diagrams this seems to be the norm for this type of equipment. What I did find is some units have separate cords for the heater and pump/vac, which allows you to use 15A circuits (rather than the single 20A required for the Mytee Lite).
I'm not sure if requiring two circuits is a good thing or a nuisance, but I guess it's good if you don't have any 20A circuits, and I'd bet it reduces the load on the internal wiring of the unit. EDIT: Maybe it doesn't reduce the load on the heater wiring--the two cord unit has an 1850W heater vs. the Mytee Lite 1000W and the HP60 1200W...that's certainly a plus for the two-cord--especially since I think hot water is the main reason to buy one of these machines.
2. No GFCI?
Last year when I was looking at the Mytee Lite documentation, they recommended AGAINST using a GFCI outlet with the unit, as it might cause it to trip before the rated current. How you can recommend against using a GFCI with a unit full of water and a 100 psi pump, I don't know, but the rewritten manual for 2014 makes no mention of it, so I guess a GFCI is ok now. EDIT: I'm wrong, further down in the manual in the FAQ's it says this: "The 8070 requires a 20A grounded circuit. Please note: GFI outlets may trip before the breaker setting."
The other unit I was looking at with the two cords has a label on it suggesting the use of a GFCI, but the text of the manual makes no such statement.
3. Water Damage to Vac Motors?
All of these units seem to warn against overfilling the recovery tank or foaming up the recovery tank as overflow of the recovery tank will damage the vacuum motors and perhaps other electrical parts of the machine (all the more reason to have it plugged into a GFCI). The big brothers to the Mytee Lite (HP60, HP100) and the two-cord unit I was looking at have float shut-offs in the recovery tank to prevent overflow--the Mytee Lite does not.
4. You Get What You Pay For?
The Mytee Lite seems to be 1/2-2/3 the cost of comparable small extractors. Every time there is a "no exclusions" sale I eye one up, but these kinds of threads and my observations above always keep me from pulling the trigger. But it's even harder to spend twice what a Mytee Lite costs for something that I'm not going to use all the time. I guess I'd better go try to get the pump to work on my LGCM....
