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lorbay

lorbay

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I am putting in a new Dust Collecting system and I have spoken to Curtis about his C/View. I am not using a C/V but I am putting it in a seporate room like Curtis did, now he has to deal with A/C and not wanting to waste it, so he recirc's it back into his shop. For those of you that have a seporate room for your D/C what do you all do about getting air back into your shops?? Do you run it through a a filter and back in the shop,?? do you vent it outside and bring fresh air back into the shop,??? dampers, auto, manual, What///??? some other ideas please.
Where I live I don't have to worry about the A/C shop nor do I have to worry in the winter if bringing in make-up air of having to heat it.

Lin.
 
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Where is your shop? Is it attached to your house or in a separate building? If it is separated from the house and you do not have to worry about heating or cooling the shop, then I would exhaust to the outside and not worry about makeup air. Your shop is not going to be tight enough to worry about makeup air, it will equalize on its own thorough leakage.
 
The shop is detached from the house, but I have built a room off the side of the shop to house the D/C system and it is airtight from the shop.

Lin.
 
If it is outside the shop and airtight, all you need to do is to be able to let the air out of the room. Either return it back into the shop or just exhaust it outside.

Is it not that simple or am I missing something?
 
There's a huge benefit to venting directly outside... FUMES! My house isn't set up so I can do that sort of thing, unfortunately.

But if heated/cooled air loss is a concern, could you cut a hole in the wall between the rooms and mount a furnace filter? There are some good ones with carbon that may even help with the fumes.
 
I don't understand the purpose of the filter. The dust collector's job is to contain the dust. It's only in a separate room to block the noise.

Am I missing something?
 
Just keeping from blowing the fine dust that makes it through the DC back into the shop. $5 filter is cheap insurance.
 
DurocShark said:
Just keeping from blowing the fine dust that makes it through the DC back into the shop. $5 filter is cheap insurance.
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He is using a cyclone which, I assume, has a filter for the exhaust air. All of the commercial ones do so unless he is making his own, the air is already filtered. My cyclone has a .5 micron pleated filter. I believe most have the same. There are not any cheap HVAC filters that reach .5 micron so adding the filter is unnecessary.
 
Well, the less cheap ones are carbon impregnated and can help with the organic vapors as well.

I'm in IT security. I'm used to thinking in layers. ;)
 
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