Hi,
I am putting together a little workshop in the garage of a house I just moved into. I am running a TS, lathe, miter saw, and will be adding a bandsaw, a router table, and maybe have room for one other tool. I am trying to figure out the best way to collect all the dust.
My main concern is getting a powerful enough DC to actually suck up the dust from each tool (including fine particles). My second concern is cost (my budget is flexible, but I don't want to buy anything I don't need [see below re: external exhaust])
I noticed a lot of the issues on these forums have to do with a loss of suction due to filter clogging. I have a nice concrete space behind my garage where I am planning on building an MDF cabinet around the DC. I'll line the MDF with sound deadening insulation, and then create some sort of baffle to exhaust air efficiently while deadening the sound. I plan to run the intake PVC pipe through a hole I will cut in above the garage's rafters, then create a system of PVC in the garage to minimize the suction loss (6" ridgid PVC reduced down to 4" with blast valves at each tool [using a minimum of flexible hose]).
Therefore, since I can exhaust air (and fine dust particles) directly into my backyard, all I really need is a powerful motor, and some sort of cyclone/separator to collect the chips and thicker particles into a waste receptacle.
Does anyone have any good ideas on a good setup to operate within these parameters? Almost all of the ready-made systems I have looked at focus a lot on the filtration system, while all I really need is a chip collector and a powerful motor/strong impeller. Any and all guidance (and pointers to other threads that have addressed this) would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
John