Cyclone Dust Collection

Farrell mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com
Mon Mar 20 11:05:51 MST 2006


I recently purchased a 5 hp cyclone dust collector/separator for my woodworking shop. It has yet to be delivered. I would like to solicit input from any of you folks that have used/installed one of these units - or maybe even someone who has just put some thought into it.

My air-conditioned concrete-block shop is attached to the rear of my concrete-block 2-car garage. I have been thinking of installing the cyclone in the garage, piping through the shop and exhausting outside the rear of the shop with no filters. This has the advantage of keeping a lot of the noise out of my shop and no hassles with filters. The downside of such an installation is that the garage is very close to my neighbor's nice back porch with pool (the noise might be a problem) and all the air that is exhausted outside the shop has to be made up with outside air coming back into the shop (half the year, humid and hot) - if this thing actually moves anything close to 1,500 CFM, it will replace all the air in my shop every six minutes or so.

The alternatives are to install it inside the shop and exhaust through filters inside the shop (noisy, filter expense and hassle).

Does anyone have experience with these decisions? Thanks for any input.

Terry Farrell
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