First, kind of a hello and an introduction....
I just got my garage back for use as a shop...
I have a 3 car garage, and I get 1/3 of it... I tried for 2/3, but I didn't get very far with the boss... :huh:
The three car design is 20' wide for the first 20 feet, and 10' wide for the next 18 feet.
So, I get a 18' X 10' shop size...
The good news is that I have a 13-14' ceiling. I plan on placing a floor (or is that an attic?) above much of the shop maybe about 11'X10' of storage there.
So, I have a lot of vertical room to work with as well...
I'd like to build my dust system so that I can place this floor between me and the motor to reduce noise.
This space could have access to the outside to vent air out the side wall, (and that could vent at the height well above the ground..)
When I started the process of looking at dust collection, I told my wife that it might run a couple hundred. Obviously, after reading up on all this, I may have missed the mark by a factor of 4 or 5....
I had run across Lee Styron's site where he built his own dust collection system, which certainly doesn't collect the smallest of the dust (He pipes his air to the outside as well, so it would appear) but I like his impeller design for two reasons.
http://www.leestyron.com/dustcollector2.php
1. It uses a 19" impeller
2. uses a 1 HP motor with a 1725 RPM.
Advantage of this design would be that the impeller would cost $20 to make, and it would be far quieter as well. I can also imagine that it would be slightly more efficient than having a faster but smaller throw design.
He says that he gets 1375 CFM at 4.75" of water column, which would be just fabulous for a cyclone like the clearvue. Has Bill or anyone else for that matter, looked into using a larger impeller with a slower motor?
Thanks to Bill for his over the top discourses on dust and collecting it. Thanks Ed for making such a cool cyclone. I hope to budget one in this spring as I start to work on my shop.
Richard
I just got my garage back for use as a shop...
I have a 3 car garage, and I get 1/3 of it... I tried for 2/3, but I didn't get very far with the boss... :huh:
The three car design is 20' wide for the first 20 feet, and 10' wide for the next 18 feet.
So, I get a 18' X 10' shop size...
The good news is that I have a 13-14' ceiling. I plan on placing a floor (or is that an attic?) above much of the shop maybe about 11'X10' of storage there.
So, I have a lot of vertical room to work with as well...
I'd like to build my dust system so that I can place this floor between me and the motor to reduce noise.
This space could have access to the outside to vent air out the side wall, (and that could vent at the height well above the ground..)
When I started the process of looking at dust collection, I told my wife that it might run a couple hundred. Obviously, after reading up on all this, I may have missed the mark by a factor of 4 or 5....
I had run across Lee Styron's site where he built his own dust collection system, which certainly doesn't collect the smallest of the dust (He pipes his air to the outside as well, so it would appear) but I like his impeller design for two reasons.
http://www.leestyron.com/dustcollector2.php
1. It uses a 19" impeller
2. uses a 1 HP motor with a 1725 RPM.
Advantage of this design would be that the impeller would cost $20 to make, and it would be far quieter as well. I can also imagine that it would be slightly more efficient than having a faster but smaller throw design.
He says that he gets 1375 CFM at 4.75" of water column, which would be just fabulous for a cyclone like the clearvue. Has Bill or anyone else for that matter, looked into using a larger impeller with a slower motor?
Thanks to Bill for his over the top discourses on dust and collecting it. Thanks Ed for making such a cool cyclone. I hope to budget one in this spring as I start to work on my shop.
Richard