Steve Crawford
07-15-2014, 9:26 AM
After getting my Trotec Speedy 300 in March I've done about 75 hours engraving and cutting. My cutting is mostly MDF and engraving is wood and acrylic.
At about IIRC 40 hours, the Atmos duo was showing 100% filter usage (ie: needed replacement), I thought that was a bit too soon and as they're very expensive here in the UK, I did what the engineer who did my commissioning suggested, and took it out to the workshop and blew compressed air through the filter to try to get rid of the deposits. That did quite well, and the system showed about 55% when used again. However it did clog up pretty quickly again and in less than another 5 hours of use was again showing 100%.
It was then I found that I didn't have to run it at maximum speed all the time (as the engineer had set it to), so started running it at around 250 instead of 400 cfpm. I blew it out again and it was ok for a few more hours use. Around this time I had the bright idea of putting additional 'filter sheets' into the top box fitted above the filter to remove some of the smaller particulates, so I bought cooker hood filters and cut them to size. Again this seemed to help a little as they were definitely picking up some of the finer dust and of course would only be cheap to replace.
During an engineer visit for a table realignment, he said sometimes taking the charcoal sacks out and then replacing them sometimes helps... Again I did this and combined with yet another filter blow out it seemed to help for a while.
However it's up to 100% usage again now.
So this morning I took out the filter, pre box and all the filters apart from the charcoal. However running it with only the charcoal in as a test, still reports over 90% filter use!! Wtf! Does this mean the charcoal is screwed and it's that I should be replacing?
Suggestions would be gratefully appreciated. I'm disappointed that the filters don't seem to be giving me enough usage. I would have hoped for perhaps a couple of hundred hours rather than what I'm getting.
At about IIRC 40 hours, the Atmos duo was showing 100% filter usage (ie: needed replacement), I thought that was a bit too soon and as they're very expensive here in the UK, I did what the engineer who did my commissioning suggested, and took it out to the workshop and blew compressed air through the filter to try to get rid of the deposits. That did quite well, and the system showed about 55% when used again. However it did clog up pretty quickly again and in less than another 5 hours of use was again showing 100%.
It was then I found that I didn't have to run it at maximum speed all the time (as the engineer had set it to), so started running it at around 250 instead of 400 cfpm. I blew it out again and it was ok for a few more hours use. Around this time I had the bright idea of putting additional 'filter sheets' into the top box fitted above the filter to remove some of the smaller particulates, so I bought cooker hood filters and cut them to size. Again this seemed to help a little as they were definitely picking up some of the finer dust and of course would only be cheap to replace.
During an engineer visit for a table realignment, he said sometimes taking the charcoal sacks out and then replacing them sometimes helps... Again I did this and combined with yet another filter blow out it seemed to help for a while.
However it's up to 100% usage again now.
So this morning I took out the filter, pre box and all the filters apart from the charcoal. However running it with only the charcoal in as a test, still reports over 90% filter use!! Wtf! Does this mean the charcoal is screwed and it's that I should be replacing?
Suggestions would be gratefully appreciated. I'm disappointed that the filters don't seem to be giving me enough usage. I would have hoped for perhaps a couple of hundred hours rather than what I'm getting.