Kris, thank you. The system works well. It is truly transparent. I can say I have not used a tool without dust collection since putting this in service. I have it integrated with my cnc router as well. No issues. This is well worth the effort. As far as time goes. It’s not that time consuming once you have the layout sorted.
When I started down this path ivac didn’t offer 6 inch gates. I see they do now. I think the big advantage of my system is it’s built from off the shelf items and is easy to maintain and much more importantly I have control of how it works.
I am very happy I automated my dust collection. I use my table routers a lot. One day I logged almost a hundred tool starts. I had full dust collection lined up for every one.