Greetings! After lurking for quite some time, I finally decided to register and post a question on something that has been bugging me. How do I smartly address dust for my situation?
My ghetto garage wood shop is getting a greatly needed upgrade to deal with my woefully inadequate power and dust collection capabilities. In a week or so, I'll have a couple dedicated 20A@220v outlets put in. This means I won't have to run an adapter cable from the dryer outlet to the table saw and jointer, and won't have to run a 12awg extension cable from an outside outlet on another circuit when I run the shop vac and planer, ...my garage currently has a single 110V 15A circuit.
The driver for the new outlets is, I want a real dust collection solution instead of my lowly mast + dustdeputy/shopvac sad excuse for dust control, but I'm not sure what is the best practice or tool for the job for my situation. I do have concerns of fine dust so dealing with that properly is important. (I have some wood dust allergies which is why I run with garage open and mask in addition to shopvac, which seems to work, but I want better)
Constraints:
1) I live semi-rural. The closest neighbor windows are about 150 ft from the garage, so I can easily vent outside and not bother a neighbor.
2) budget allows up to a 2HP system. I could swing upwards of 1.5k, but less is always nicer if it isn't necessary to spend.
3) Wife has OK'd me punching a hole through the wall if necessary.
4) I usually work with the garage door open, so heating and negative pressure issues aren't an issue for me.
My Thoughts:
1) get a semi efficient cyclone separator (jet/grizzly/laguna etc?) and wheel it out the garage about 5-10 ft when in use (DC1 in figure). Not sure how long of a 4" hose to the machines I could get away with or if I'd need a 6 and neck down near the saw/jointer etc.
2) get a semi efficient cyclone cyclone separator, remove the filter, and adapt a hose to exhaust far from the garage without moving the DC outside (how far? I'm guessing I'd need a 6" hose for this)
3) get a bag filter dust collector such as the Grizzly G0548ZP, remove the bag filter, put a Thien baffle in the collar, then exhaust the fines far from the garage (blower is before separation)
4) a little more DIY #3 to remount the blower so it is after the separation.
5) #2,3,4 but through the wall instead of away from the garage (DC2). I suppose this wouldn't need to be portable
I'm attaching an image of the area layout and rough garage setup.
I want this to be effective, but not so DIYish that it gets in the way or becomes counter productive to the budget and time. I'd rather spend my time getting other stuff built.
Appreciate any thoughts or feedback!!