Putting together basement shop. I have a Jet Vortex dust collector and FEIN vac to take care of dust collection. I am interest in minimizing dust travel upstairs and was wondering if anyone is using the new Stratus dust collector.
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Putting together basement shop. I have a Jet Vortex dust collector and FEIN vac to take care of dust collection. I am interest in minimizing dust travel upstairs and was wondering if anyone is using the new Stratus dust collector.
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Correction. Interested in Stratus Air Cleaner.
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Interesting, those look nice. I’d be interested in seeing some real world reviews and testing.
$500 by the way, not cheap.
Also, it takes up valuable floor space.
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I'm also interested to see what other people say. I'm seen it before, and it looks very nice, but you could buy a hanging air cleaner that cleans down to the same micron with more CFM for less money. A lot of airborne dust gets thrown up higher anyway, so I think a properly setup hanging filter would be more efficient.. I could be wrong though.
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Harold, I've had my basement shop for 15 years ... and have never had any dust show-up upstairs. I do have continuous and part-time air-cleaning. The circulator has a 3 speed squirrel-cage and is set to continuously run on low. I cut a hole in the air-return plenum for a 12 x 24 filter and use a #7 rated filter in it ... that is the continuous air-cleaner. For when long-running any of the saws or drum sander: I have a 3 stage filter ... ceiling-mounted ... squirrel-cage that I'll run for the duration. For other short-runs: I have a 20" ceiling-mounted box fan with a #7 filter attached to the 'intake-side' ... it is mounted about mid-wise among'st the tools. Otherwise: I am rabid about collecting at-the-source. I have <$200 invested in all 3.
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