Spark wrote:
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It is indeed noisy. It's in my home garage shop so putting it outside
is not an option. I live in So Cal and the house next door is about
10ft away. An enclosure is a good idea. I don't believe that the guy I
bought it from had a cyclone container attached to it. I think he told
me the big stuff fell out of the the bottom port on the right side of
the unit.The rest went through the fan, but he said the fan was heavy
duty enough to not be damaged by the stuff that went through it. I'm
not sure how that's going to work. There's so much air coming out of
that bottom port on the right side that it's going to kick up a ton of
dust. I really appreciate all the help from you guys. I'm obviously
going to have to do some homework. First step is to contact the
company that Sonny found that sells this device. I'm hoping I can
obtain some documentation from them. The bulk of the material moving
through this thing will be dust from my cabinet saw, planer and chop
saw.
Mark

I can't imagine using it w/ one port open--I suppose one could connect
the lower port to a container but anything that actually falls out of
that port will have to be pretty good size. Only way I could see it
ever working that way would be w/ a small inlet airleakage in the bottom
of the leg/container.

Clearly that is _NOT_ the way the unit is intended to be used; if you
don't have and don't get or make a separator for it I'd suggest the
better choice is to block it off entirely if you're only using one port.

There's nothing large enough from a small planer or any saw that's going
to damage the impeller, that's true; it's simply going to be a nuisance
having to empty that large bag all the time instead of separating out
the solids and only collecting the fines.

I don't know what you expect the company to tell you? -- they're
certainly _not_ going to say the bottom port is a chip separation
exhaust port if that's what you're hoping for. Whether they've got a
separator specifically for it, maybe, but I'll wager you'll want another
wallet if they do...

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