I am the one who bought a dry wall dust collection off the web that
uses water as a filter. this thing is GREAT!!!
Well anyway does any body know if I could or should hook this thing up
to my central vacuum system for my house. I thought about getting a low
voltage relay, wire it to plug into a 120 vote outlet " the one I have
for my BEAM vacuum plugged into now." Then from the relay I would wire
in a cord to connect my wet dry vacuum. A little bit of water escapes
into this dust system so I thought that the BEAM shouldn't have water
get in it so I should use a wet dry vacuum. If this is possible I would
not have to buy expensive filter any more or for that matter no dust
getting into the house when I chang the filters on the BEAM. All I have
to do is open the drain rinse the tank refill with water done ready for
the next cleaning. Thanks for any input or info BEN

I have done this many times with my
central vac. I bought one of those
cheap drywall sanding units at Home
Depot that has a 5 gal covered pale and a
corregated 25' hose with a sanding block
for sanding screen. The only problem
is the whistling caused by the
corregated hose caused by the higher air
volume from
the central vac. Many years ago, I used
the central vac directly to pick up
the "dust" directly and the results was
bearings going bad on the vac. It was
15 years
old, but I do believe the fine dust had
something to do with it.

I also use an old extraction rug
cleaner (the R2D2 type unit) connected
to the central
vac to get more suction when cleaning
carpeting. I did remove the fan and motor
in the rug cleaner. I also use this as
a water drop-off unit so I could use
this combo
as a wet pickup unit. BTW, the R2D2
unit has a floating ball cut off, when
the tank
fills up.

Ben wrote:
I am the one who bought a dry wall dust collection off the web that
uses water as a filter. this thing is GREAT!!!
Well anyway does any body know if I could or should hook this thing up
to my central vacuum system for my house. I thought about getting a low
voltage relay, wire it to plug into a 120 vote outlet " the one I have
for my BEAM vacuum plugged into now." Then from the relay I would wire
in a cord to connect my wet dry vacuum. A little bit of water escapes
into this dust system so I thought that the BEAM shouldn't have water
get in it so I should use a wet dry vacuum. If this is possible I would
not have to buy expensive filter any more or for that matter no dust
getting into the house when I chang the filters on the BEAM. All I have
to do is open the drain rinse the tank refill with water done ready for
the next cleaning. Thanks for any input or info BEN