Lid Baffle Palte Question

[Twister]

Your lid design result is impressive.  I was wondering if you considered, or tried, running your inlet pipe through the baffle plate to dump chips out below the baffle?  This would move the inlet particles away from the outlet port entirely and give you a relatively quiet area between the lid and baffle for the outlet port.

Twister

[phil (admin)]

Your lid design result is impressive.  I was wondering if you considered, or tried, running your inlet pipe through the baffle plate to dump chips out below the baffle?  This would move the inlet particles away from the outlet port entirely and give you a relatively quiet area between the lid and baffle for the outlet port.

Twister

Yep, here is what happens in that case:  The high velocity of the inlet stirs up the chips in the bottom of the can like mad.  The air from the inlet has to climb over the baffle to exit via the outlet, and in doing so, carries with it chips that have been stirred.

By having both tubes ABOVE the baffle, we give the airstream a chance to "fling" the particles and than make a clean getaway up the output tube.