Well, it was late in the day, hadn't eaten any lunch and my blood sugar was off the charts. I finished ripping some stock on my table saw and started cleaning up. I use a quick disconnect on a flex hose from my DC to TS. Decided to vacuum off the sawdust with the hose and sucked the remote for my Jet DC-1100RC up the hose, through the impeller (thwack!) and into the dust bag. Pulverized the remote, but fortunately, the impeller was unscathed.
In a way, it was a fortunate, albeit boneheaded, accident. See, the DC-1100RC is an IR remote that I've always disliked. You need 'line of sight' to the receiver on the DC to start it with the remote. Always seemed to be contorting my body to get the thing started, or walking half way across the shop just for a clear view.
So, I bypassed the reciever module on the DC, bought a Long Ranger III remote, plugged it in, and voila, can start the thing from anywhere in the shop! Now I just need to get a couple more remotes to hang around the shop for what ever machine I'm working on.
Word of advice: remember to eat lunch.