I came across this.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HXL6YJE/?tag=atomicindus08-20 Seems a little expensive and you have to buy a charger and (2) battery packs. While the filter may be rated as Hepa, I wondering about the Hepa certification mention. There's quite a bit of difference.
Motoretro
There's a lot of misinformation about this out there perpetrated by Festool, long story short, there's no such thing as full-unit HEPA certified vacuums.
The Department of Energy came up with the HEPA standard in the 70s for use in nuclear plants, and created guidelines for testing, which third party labs now do the actual certification of the filters.
Note that the standard is only for FILTERS.
In 2008, the EPA decided to use the HEPA designation when creating their RRP lead abatement rules, stating that to pass their standards, the vac must be designed around a HEPA filter, however as long as no air leaks around the filter, it would pass EPA RRP standards. There is no test, there is no certification process.
Festool, in need of a marketing ploy, decided to rap on this HEPA thing, and starting claiming that they were the "only" full-unit HEPA certified vacuum....except that's not even a real thing. The DOE/EPA never created a full-unit HEPA standard, nor a test to validate this.
A Festool employee even verified this when it first came out on JLC forums.
http://forums.jlconline.com/forums/...tors-fully-hepa-certified?p=866762#post866762
To be clear, there is no certification process accredited by the EPA. A manufacturer, Festool included, cannot claim to have EPA or RRP certification. It is our responsibility as manufacturers to protect the best interests of you, the remodeler/painter/etc., by ensuring that we FULLY comply with the entire legislation as its written. And, Festool feels confident that it has gone to every extent to ensure that it has fully complied with the letter and spirit of the law.
This has been confirmed by several posters who spoke directly to the EPA on other forums as well:
http://www.painttalk.com/f6/dustless-hepa-vacuum-14970/#post239914
http://www.contractortalk.com/f11/rrp-hepa-vacuum-i-love-one-i-just-got-76461/#post919002
In the end, the idea was to try an bar people from slapping a HEPA filter into a shopvac and calling it EPA RRP compliant, but realistically any vacuum designed to seal around a factory available HEPA filter is "full-unit HEPA", in their words.
... but... if I was bringing my stuff onto the jobsite or transporting a stack of Systainers in the truck, then having a small vac available in the stack could be a good thing.