Thread: Air Filtration for Workshop

you still keep saying this:

My 2300 cfm dusty

it's not, ignore that.

The simplest improvement you can make were the first four things in Bob's original post.

Use Dust Extractor all the time, no matter where you are generating dust. Yes, that means moving hoses, but do it.
Convert to 6" hoses (and yes, 4" "standard" is sub-par)
Convert to 6" ports on machines and allow them to breathe
Make sure the dust extractor is not contributing to the airborne dust by putting it outside

The earlier point about your family being impacted was a reference to them having to suffer in the future should you fall ill because of ingesting dust.

Originally Posted by poundy

you still keep saying this: [LEFT][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]My 2300 cfm dusty

it's not, ignore that.
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Happy to provide technical manuals/specifications if it helps you get over this foot-high roadblock.

I understand that 2300 is the rating based at the intake itself, it's a maximum rating like saying a 1000W stereo that's actually 250W RMS. I didn't come down in the last shower. However, calling it literally anything other than what it is would be counter productive and confusing. What would I refer to it as? Which arbitrary number should I pull from the air to attach to it?



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Originally Posted by Putty

Happy to provide technical manuals/specifications if it helps you get over this foot-high roadblock.

I understand that 2300 is the rating based at the intake itself, it's a maximum rating like saying a 1000W stereo that's actually 250W RMS. I didn't come down in the last shower. However, calling it literally anything other than what it is would be counter productive and confusing. What would I refer to it as? Which arbitrary number should I pull from the air to attach to it?
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It's not even close to a maximum rating, it's a rough indication as to what the impeller can suck with no filter or cyclone attachments. To further add to the inflated and erroneous info around, the Industry standard way of measuring DCs is incorrect as it only measures the air flow in the very middle of the inlet which is not the average flow across the entire opening, but something like 40% more than the max average flow (again with no filter or cyclone attachments) .
Anyway - once the DC is above a certain spec the diameter of the ducting is THE major flow limiting step is the size of the ducting with 4" ducting (not flex) has a max flow rate of 400 CFM, 6" about 1250 CFM and 2" is <100CFM.

A more indicative set of parameters are the motor HP, impeller size, and size of the intake. This will still only tell us the max suck of the impeller then the subtract another 10-15% for the filters, factor in the use of smaller ducting and choked machinery. This is all described ad nauseam in these forums.

Then the thread can be closed.

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