J. Phil Thien's Projects

On the 240 degree cutout, where should it be orientated as to relation to the incoming air flow?
And I will upgrade to a 6 or 8" opening...I currently have a 8" opening but no pipe..would it be best to have a hose/pipe and if so how far down should it protrude?

it has a 15" metal impeller with a 5hp motor.  I seem to read somewhere (cannot find it again) where if produced 2400cfm.
I like the Clear Vue cyclone but it is only 8" intake/exit so I would loose some airflow.  I am not an expert but reducing it would reduce air flow..just not sure how much.
I am considering going to a local fab shop and having one made.  Any ideas on what the design should be...a metal cyclone with a thien baffle built in??
Leland

right now it has a cap on the 10" opening with 5- 5" hose outlets.  When I move to my permanent shop, it will have a 10 hard pipe out of it running to the shop equipment, reducing as it goes (this part has not been calculated yet as my shop is not built yet).

I would agree that a separator would be best...but if I have a 10" intake to the impellers, I would figure I would need a 8 - 10" separator before that so that I would not loose air flow, correct?
I have not seen anything you can buy that big (as far as a cyclone separator that I could add the Thien to.
Any ideas?

No.  I wanted to stop the swirl effect which makes the top filters fill up quickly.   I will have a 10" intake into the impeller and cannot find a big enough cyclone for that so wanted to see what I can do after the impeller.
Any suggestions would be welcome.

2 more additional pics that might help???

I have a Delta 50-866 which I had converted from using the cloth bags to a plastic bag on bottom and a Wynn 9L300NANO filter on top.  From the pic's you will see I had to cut the top, put in a base (of MDF) to attach the filter.
I would like to adapt the baffle design to this.  What I was thinking is inside at the bottom putting in the bottom design baffle (with the 240 degree cutout) and then at the top adding another mdf round cutout with a 3" opening for a pipe that would go into the Wynn filter.
As you can see from the inside view there already is a cyclone cutout so the baffle bottom would be below that.
This is a 5 hp motor and there is two filters like this (one on each side).
Has anyone adapted to this type of DC or have any lessons learned that I can use.

My name is Leland Schultz and I joined this site to learn more how I can apply this baffle design to my DC system.