J. Phil Thien's Projects

Thanks for the response. Yes, I was definitely going to put in several blast gates. One at each tool.

I think I'm leaning towards foregoing the side inlets all together.  It will be awkward to have two inlets, as the 240 degrees that would normally be open for debris to drop down in would have to be reduced.

I think I'm going to just go with a Y inlet into the top, and run each length of hose into the Y, with blast gates on all tools. I will take some pictures of the finished product, hopefully later today. 

Thanks

First of all, thanks for everyone putting up all of this information, it is awesome.

I'm setting up my first dust collection system in my one car garage.  I want to keep it all ducted, so I don't have to move it around tool to tool.  I just bought a 2hp Harbor Freight dust collector.

Here is my dilemma.  All of my tools that need major dust collection are along one wall (in order to keep the ducts as short as possible). This is pictured below.  I'm debating on where to locate the dust collector. I have two choices (pictured below).

Choice 1: Put it in the corner, and run ducts all the way the length of the wall and have one side inlet into the seperator in the corner.

Choice 2: Put it in the middle of the wall.  This creates the shortest possible ducting to all of the tools, but introduces the problem of ducting and airflow coming from opposite directions.  I prefer this method, but am having troubles making the inlets have as little resistance as possible. I want to have side inlets, to git rid of the 2 90 degree bends a lid inlet has.  BUT, I have the inlets coming from opposite directions, so I was thinking of setting two baffles on top of one another, one baffle for each inlet (Pictured).  Each baffle would have air flowing in the opposite direction. 

I thought if I put the two inlets on the same baffle/level, that the dust would get hung up on the opposite inlet as it spun around the can, and have a higher likelihood to get sucked up into the outlet.

Let me know what you guys think. Sorry for the crude drawings, but hopefully they get the idea across.