My new shop is finally finished and I'm ready to install my dust collection system, a Laguna Cyclone with a 5 HP motor. For reasons of floor plan, layout, and, especially, ductwork headroom clearance, I want to raise the unit (motor, blower, filter, and cone) about 2 feet higher, keeping the collection barrel where it is. I would do that by replacing the flex hose connecting the cone with the drum top with a longer hose. Headroom is not a problem. When I asked Laguna about getting or modifying parts to do that, I was told that raising the unit and extending the hose connecting the cyclone to the drum would defeat the cyclonic action. Upon further thought and looking at other posts here, this does not make sense to me. Shouldn't gravity should take over at the bottom of the cone to pull the heavier material in the stream into the barrel? If this were the case, any location of a cyclone more than 10 inches from the drum would cause the cyclone to fail. Am I wrong in thinking this way? Do I really have to build a platform for both the unit and the collection drum to raise the system as the technician suggested?