Are you sending conditioned air outside? I set my system up 20 yrs ago when I started woodworking and am evolving into pool cues. My dust collector is located in a small insulated room in an unheated area of my building. I have a 20 in. x 20 in. opening back into the shop covered with a funace filter. Theory at the time was to avoid sending $ out the wall. Option A = installing hepa type filter on both sides of opening. Option B = eliminate opening. Anyone doing this?
Dust collection in northern climate
- Thread starter Grimm Reaper
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I don't vent to the atmosphere because both heat and A/C are expensive to replace and it doesn't take long to empty your shop of it. The bad thing about filters is - the better they catch the dust - the faster they clog up. My shop is so dusty that I buy the cheapest pleated filters I can (300) for my Hvac and they last 2 weeks before becoming clogged. I have an old Hoover convertible sweeper but it got where I had trouble buying bags for it so I bought a new Red Devil floor sweeper with the hepa-filter and it clogs up with about a minutes worth of running. Your damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Dick
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Dick, it sounds like you really need some kind of cyclone on your dust collector and or your shop vac! But you're absolutely right, the better the filter, the faster they clog.
I think if your worried about sending warm out the hole you should forget about building pool cues or get a propane heater that heats the entire space.