Thread: New dust collector enclosure....

Looks good. As long as you can seal it up all over it should be fine.

Of course it happens to be a thoroughfare for various water pipes etc, so will need to allow for these, but won't be a hassle to seal....

Im doing the same thing with my makeover, put the bugger outside and gain a big chunk of floorspace as well. Im going to have to build a bit of a outside loo style leantoo for it, but apart form the space gained the fine dust should be gone with it...anything left the airfilter should be able to look after.

I couldn't do a fully outdoor booth, no room at sides of house, and can't get to back of house (different level) - the under house gap vents to the outdoors, can't believe I didn't think of this months ago!
I lined the bottom of the bottom plate and the stud that is attached to a damp wall with 4.5mm thick high density polyethylene strips for increased longevity - nice stuff, but costs more than the timber they protect!

I moved my collector to a outside shed with air moving the dust outside. I have large windows to allow air in and dust out (in the shed) but my collector motor gets very hot that I have to clean out the shed weekly and limit the use time to allow the collector's motor to cool it off.
How do you plan to keep the motor cool?

The DC will be sitting in an area of (ball park) 100 cubic metres of air space, I don't think overheating will be a problem....

Originally Posted by srichard44

I moved my collector to a outside shed with air moving the dust outside. I have large windows to allow air in and dust out (in the shed) but my collector motor gets very hot that I have to clean out the shed weekly and limit the use time to allow the collector's motor to cool it off.
How do you plan to keep the motor cool?

I wouldn't worry about it too much. The motors on DCs are known and designed to run hot.

On mine I push the exhausted air past the motor to help cooling - I keep meaning to put a remote thermometer on it but still haven't GRTI. If you can't do that then I like Mini's idea of placing a small air feed near/alongside the motor and rout the feed into the DC intake so that it drags cool air past the motor. This method loses a bit of suck at the business end of the ducting but it's better than cooking your motor.

It won't get any hotter where I'm putting it compared to where it would be in the middle of the workshop, in any case, the way I use it, it has a fairly short duty cycle anyway, I'd be surprised if it ever got more than just a little warm

An update.... finished few weeks back.... works a charm....
I switch it with a remote controlled socket from Jaycar, the remote and three sockets was only $44 or so, rated 10A, I wonder if the 2hp DE draws over that briefly at start, if it does it hasn't fried the socket yet!

Nice - where's the outlet - above you say it's the underneath of the house. I assume that is on the other side of the box?

A 2HP unit is nominally 1500 W or ~7 A . On start up it will probably momentarily pull ~20A but (as I learned recently) a standard breaker can cope with this so hopefully the Jaycar unit will was well.