I am going to have to commit not later than tomorrow night.
I think I know which one I prefer, and I think I know why, but talk me out of it if you can.
What I am building is a floor standing air filter for my shop. It is going to be overkill for sawdust in my 288sqft hand tool shop, but it is sized about right for severe seasonal wildfire smoke in 900sqft apartment + shop space. More than adequate for woodworking over the winter, adequate for having hazardous outdoor air quality in my front yard next summer.
Basic concept is a vertical double square that could hold 8 furnace filters, two on each side, with a box fan on the top blowing upwards. In reality two of the filter spaces will be blanked with 20x20 inch plywood squares so the unit can be backed up against a wall with no loss of filtration capacity. This is my second build of one of these.
With outdoor PM2.5 counts upwards of 300mcg/m3 I should have no trouble maintaining indoor PM2.5 counts under 25 mcg/m3.
So I have pics of two design possibilities on my dining room floor. 1) Can you even tell them apart? If you have a preference, do you like the one with my feet showing at the bottom of the pic, or no feet?
Thanks. I will share other information in the next couple days, but proportion is really all about impressions.
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