Mark Ebert
05-03-2007, 9:10 PM
As if we haven't had enough discussions about cyclones and dust collection, I have one to add.
I took delivery of an Oneida 3HP Dust Gorilla yesterday (insert small gloat here;) ), and I'm having a difficult time in deciding where to place the system. I have a free corner in the shop where I was originally going to put it, but its about 20-25 feet from the major dust generating tools and at the opposite end of the shop from a 220V power source. The good thing (maybe) is that its in the shop so any dust escaping will just remain in the shop.
However, in the room adjacent to my shop is the storage and furnace room, which is approximately 12' x 16'. I had this brilliant idea that I could mount the collector in this room, next to the shop wall (where the main tools are only 10-15 feet away), and run all the ducting through the wall into the shop. I would also add a return opening between the rooms to keep the pressure equal. The advantages to this as I see it is less noise and more expansion room in the shop, and I have easy access to the 220V source there.
Now for the 1 Million dollar question... would it be unwise to place the system in the same room as the furnace and water heater because of dust possibly getting pulled into the furnace (and then into the rest of the house)? The furnace and water heater are about 10-12' away from where I would locate the dust collector, so I'm not too worried about a flame source being too close to the collector. Since I haven't yet used this system, I have no experience how much dust will be extracted into this room from the filter element. Does anyone have any practical experience with this? Another possibility is to exhaust the filtered return into the shop through more ducting, but I'm thinking it would also negate the noise benefit of having the collector in a separate room and possibly cause more flow restrictions. I'm open to all comments on this...
-Mark
I took delivery of an Oneida 3HP Dust Gorilla yesterday (insert small gloat here;) ), and I'm having a difficult time in deciding where to place the system. I have a free corner in the shop where I was originally going to put it, but its about 20-25 feet from the major dust generating tools and at the opposite end of the shop from a 220V power source. The good thing (maybe) is that its in the shop so any dust escaping will just remain in the shop.
However, in the room adjacent to my shop is the storage and furnace room, which is approximately 12' x 16'. I had this brilliant idea that I could mount the collector in this room, next to the shop wall (where the main tools are only 10-15 feet away), and run all the ducting through the wall into the shop. I would also add a return opening between the rooms to keep the pressure equal. The advantages to this as I see it is less noise and more expansion room in the shop, and I have easy access to the 220V source there.
Now for the 1 Million dollar question... would it be unwise to place the system in the same room as the furnace and water heater because of dust possibly getting pulled into the furnace (and then into the rest of the house)? The furnace and water heater are about 10-12' away from where I would locate the dust collector, so I'm not too worried about a flame source being too close to the collector. Since I haven't yet used this system, I have no experience how much dust will be extracted into this room from the filter element. Does anyone have any practical experience with this? Another possibility is to exhaust the filtered return into the shop through more ducting, but I'm thinking it would also negate the noise benefit of having the collector in a separate room and possibly cause more flow restrictions. I'm open to all comments on this...
-Mark