My home is a double-wide mobile home on a full foundation. That means other than ductwork and the cellar door, my living space is closed off from my unheated (finished) basement. We use propane, and only for the furnace. My shop is a 16x25 section of the basement with a ceiling just over 7 foot. The whole basement is about 1100 square feet, all with roughly the same ceiling height. It is ‘suspended’, but I used tracks and the ‘suspension’ is VERY minimal. There are two offices and a common area in my basement in addition to my shop. Everything is in its own closed area. We heat our offices (2) and my shop with electric heaters and it is not air-conditioned. It is cool all year without that.
I have a 10 inch radial saw, a 10 inch table saw, a 12 inch compound miter saw, a 6 inch jointer, a 12 inch planer, a portable jigsaw, a bench size drill press and a small belt/disk sander, a Greenie ShopSmith, and two routers, one bench mounted and one I use for dadoes, etc. I also have portable power tools (belt sander, orbital sander, and circular saw) that I will deal with in time.
I have decided on Clear Vue CV1800 for dust collection. I’m going to do my whole setup with 6” PVC as much as possible and the absolute minimum of flexible pipe. I believe I can cover all of my tools/needs with two main runs, one about 6 or 8 feet and one about 16 feet. The drops will be short because the ceiling is low.
I have some questions I hope this forum can answer. I don’t know if what I am going to do is overkill, but I believe in buying the best I can afford and only crying one time. I have no dust collection in my shop right now and absolutely no experience with it at all.
1) I want to vent outside. The technician at Clear Vue said I would need a door or window open while running the unit to allow for air circulation, which probably makes venting outside impossible, but I have to ask… since I will only ever use this system with one machine at a time, and for limited amounts of time, is opening a door really necessary. (Her recommendation was side by side filters with a plenum to connect them and exit ports into a shared, air-tight hopper. )
I’m willing to buy the filters if that is absolutely necessary but I’d like to hear that from more than one source. I’m not minimizing what I was told. I just need to hear it from more than one authority because the cost difference is significant and the little I've read so far indicates that outside is the best option. I get the high change of air number, but it seems to me that that is based on a snapshot of air movement passing through an opening at a given point at a given moment and not something that is going to make my shop implode after 5 minutes running. I would prefer to vent outside. I don’t want to give that up until I hear from more people on running a dust collector without opening door/window.
2) My research indicates a five foot straight run is necessary/recommended right off the collector. Can there be drops from this or must this be an uninterrupted 5 foot run. My shop IS small and my current plans would make this inconvenient. I intend to have the best I can have but I don’t want to go off the deep end for perfect when very good is a better use of my money.
Any help or advice will be much appreciated. It may raise other questions. Everything will help!
Thank you!
e.g.bell
I have a 10 inch radial saw, a 10 inch table saw, a 12 inch compound miter saw, a 6 inch jointer, a 12 inch planer, a portable jigsaw, a bench size drill press and a small belt/disk sander, a Greenie ShopSmith, and two routers, one bench mounted and one I use for dadoes, etc. I also have portable power tools (belt sander, orbital sander, and circular saw) that I will deal with in time.
I have decided on Clear Vue CV1800 for dust collection. I’m going to do my whole setup with 6” PVC as much as possible and the absolute minimum of flexible pipe. I believe I can cover all of my tools/needs with two main runs, one about 6 or 8 feet and one about 16 feet. The drops will be short because the ceiling is low.
I have some questions I hope this forum can answer. I don’t know if what I am going to do is overkill, but I believe in buying the best I can afford and only crying one time. I have no dust collection in my shop right now and absolutely no experience with it at all.
1) I want to vent outside. The technician at Clear Vue said I would need a door or window open while running the unit to allow for air circulation, which probably makes venting outside impossible, but I have to ask… since I will only ever use this system with one machine at a time, and for limited amounts of time, is opening a door really necessary. (Her recommendation was side by side filters with a plenum to connect them and exit ports into a shared, air-tight hopper. )
I’m willing to buy the filters if that is absolutely necessary but I’d like to hear that from more than one source. I’m not minimizing what I was told. I just need to hear it from more than one authority because the cost difference is significant and the little I've read so far indicates that outside is the best option. I get the high change of air number, but it seems to me that that is based on a snapshot of air movement passing through an opening at a given point at a given moment and not something that is going to make my shop implode after 5 minutes running. I would prefer to vent outside. I don’t want to give that up until I hear from more people on running a dust collector without opening door/window.
2) My research indicates a five foot straight run is necessary/recommended right off the collector. Can there be drops from this or must this be an uninterrupted 5 foot run. My shop IS small and my current plans would make this inconvenient. I intend to have the best I can have but I don’t want to go off the deep end for perfect when very good is a better use of my money.
Any help or advice will be much appreciated. It may raise other questions. Everything will help!
Thank you!
e.g.bell