I wanted to get some thoughts and experience from real-world setups of dust collection setups. I have some experience but only with a few models in a few environments (my own garage, Asmbly, and a larger school environment).
I’m working on a personal project to help plan, design, and simulate dust collection systems in everything from the DIY hobby garage shop to a mid-size shop and possibly larger.
If anyone is willing to share some details about your own setup, I’d like to model it and see if the simulation matches your expectations!
The funny thing is every time I say to @Duckie “hey come check this out look what it does now!!” It breaks… I thought I got enough of those out but seems a little cleanup left.
I’m still very interested in the layouts folks might have. Napkin drawings would be great. I’ll get a demo video of this up soon too.
The real reason I came up with this tool.I was trying to come up with a good way to setup our dust collection at Asmbly. In my past life I was a software engineer, so naturally I spent a month writing up a way to solve my problem.
Something still isn’t quite right and I was hoping to get some feedback or suggestions.
The problem: If you’ve seen the lathe area, it is small! We don’t have room for a large dust collector. We’d like to be able to run a unit that can suck up dust from all 3 lathes at once, however it may be challenging with the smaller units. It’s possible I’m overthinking this and the Rockler 1250 would suit us just fine.
I’m running into an issue of balancing efficiency vs velocity; either having too much static pressure when all 3 blast gates are open, or not enough airflow and risking dust settling in the pipes. You can play around with pipe sizes, types, and all that to see the effect it might have. There’s also some overlays that will show the efficiency and velocity ratings.
If you are able to help me work through this (or interested in the tool), use the code FriendlyAsmbly for the Pro pass to unlock all the fancy nitty gritty details. Calculation specifics are documented on the documentation page.
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