I just finished running the circuit for the cyclone. I’m waiting on an electrical box and my exhaust adapter to get things up and running. I will be using the contactor with a 120 iVac remote control switch. I have a friend working on a design for automated blast gates using Arduino. I followed advice I read on one of the forums and obtained 6” schedule 20 pvc pipes from Ace hardware. That was awesome. What wasn’t awesome was trying to find the schedule 20 pipe fittings. I ordered all the fittings from amazon before I realized the impact of the schedule 20. If you don’t know, the 6” fittings are significantly different in sizing from schedule 20 to 40. I special ordered the fittings from an irrigation supply store. When they finally came in, I nearly choked on the price.
So that brings me to my main concern: Now that I’ve purchased all of the fittings for the second time, (the one’s I bought this time fit the pipe). But… for all 3 of the vertical transitions (6” down to the clearvue 6” to dual 4” fittings), I decided to use SANITARY TEE’S. Did I screw up (again?)?! It seemed to me that the sanitary tee would provide a curved transition back to the cyclone that seemed to me the most logical way to hit the vertical. I only have two branches, with 3 vertical runs down, each to the 6”/4” plenum. That’s 6 total hookups. The clearvue is probably overkill for where my shop is now. I have a Shop Fox W1851 hybrid table saw, Grizzly 6” x 80” edge sander, W1706 band saw, Jet 16/32 drum sander, a 20” x 40” downdraft table with a 4” port. The remaining port, I will use for a small cnc mill, or various belt and spindle sanders, or a big gulp dust hood.
So, do I need to get these sanitary tee’s back to the irrigation supply and go with a wye and 45?
So that brings me to my main concern: Now that I’ve purchased all of the fittings for the second time, (the one’s I bought this time fit the pipe). But… for all 3 of the vertical transitions (6” down to the clearvue 6” to dual 4” fittings), I decided to use SANITARY TEE’S. Did I screw up (again?)?! It seemed to me that the sanitary tee would provide a curved transition back to the cyclone that seemed to me the most logical way to hit the vertical. I only have two branches, with 3 vertical runs down, each to the 6”/4” plenum. That’s 6 total hookups. The clearvue is probably overkill for where my shop is now. I have a Shop Fox W1851 hybrid table saw, Grizzly 6” x 80” edge sander, W1706 band saw, Jet 16/32 drum sander, a 20” x 40” downdraft table with a 4” port. The remaining port, I will use for a small cnc mill, or various belt and spindle sanders, or a big gulp dust hood.
So, do I need to get these sanitary tee’s back to the irrigation supply and go with a wye and 45?