"Wayne Boatwright" wrote in message
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Bobby, the truly simplest approach is to relocate the unit outside the
living space. My parents had central vacuums in their homes since the
first ones were introduced. There were three scenarios of their
installations. (1) Garage, (2) Basement, (3) Spare Closet, where the
interior walls of the closet were heavily insulated. Another possibility
would be the attic. At least half of those years I was living at home. I
could never tell when the unit was running unless I entered either the
garage, basement, or opened the closet.

I've lived with CV's for a long time, too. I live pretty close to neighbors
on each side and relocating outside my living space puts me closer to
theirs. In the interest of peaceful coexistence, I don't want to foist the
noise onto my neighbors, but to mitigate it as well as I can. That means
enclosure, as far as I can tell.

It shouldn't be that difficult to run an inlet pipe to the new location,
be
it through closets, hollow walls, etc. The other upside to doing this is
not tampering with the environment that the vacuum naturally requires. I
would never consider enclosing it in a box, despite the efforts to
ventilate it with fans.

Well, advice on "enclose or not to enclose" has been running all over the
map. Unfortunately I think it's the only option left considering all of the
issues. I'm hoping that several added safety interlocks will overcome what
I agree is the possibility that the unit might overheat. I'll be monitoring
the temperature in the box very closely. I also have a HomeVision
controller that I can set to make sure that the unit does not ever run more
than a set amount of minutes at a time and that the internal temperature of
the box never rises above a certain amount. A good friend says he doubts
the unit will even get noticeably warmer since the unit is always sucking
cool room air into the unit as part of the vacuuming process and the Hayden
CV design has that air flowing around the motor assembly.

Thanks for your input, Wayne.

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Bobby G.