Dyson??

[mntbighker]

Has anyone else been wondering if technology like that found in a supposedly clog immune Dyson vacuums will find it's way into dust extraction equipment? And perhaps a better question would be has anyone actually tried a Dyson canister that is NOT available in the US the last time I checked    The principal behind the Dyson that is trickling into the rest of the domestic vacuum market seems an obvious choice for industrial and shop dust extraction. Especially scaled up for whole shop systems.

--Mark

 

[Tom Wales]

I have the purple Dyson. Works great on carpet. Not so good on laminate floor and if you suck up much sheetrock dust, shi.. I mean sheeeet rock dust plugging up the hepa filter,what a pita. Un(fortuneately ) I only have a 5x10" carpet now. I would never try to frankenstien one for a shop vac. That's just my own stinky opinion though. Tom

 

[brandon.nickel]

The "root cyclone" technology used by Dyson is the exact same physics principle used by all of the major cyclonic dust extractors.  Read here for all the information you ever wanted to know on cyclones and dust collection in general.  This guy was one of the pioneers before Grizzly, et al jumped on the bandwagon.

 

[Eli]

I actually have a 110v Dyson that followed us here from the states that I was planning to do that very thing to. I'll be the guinea pig. Eventually. I'm moving this weekend. Not so much different from the clearvue. Just fancier looking.

 

[Michael Kellough]

Has anyone else been wondering if technology like that found in a supposedly clog immune Dyson vacuums will find it's way into dust extraction equipment?... Especially scaled up for whole shop systems.
--Mark

Actually Dyson scaled (many decades old) industrial dust collection technology down to a portable size. You've probably seen it attached to factories many times and hadn't realized what it was. This page shows a typical installation by an established specialist company and lower down the page is a system that looks quite a bit like the guts of a Dyson vac.

 

[Eli]

Dyson is available in the US btw. We bought ours in LA four or five years ago.

 

[Greg_R]

Bag based systems work very well as long as you remember to change the bags ;D.  Airflow at certain static pressures & the quality of filtration before the air gets back in the breathing environment is what is important.  Most vacuums have a HEPA filter but the SYSTEM is not a HEPA system.  In other words, the fine dust blows around the filter and back out into the environment.  Cyclones will keep large particles from hitting your filtration media and thus prolong the life of the filter.

 

[Dave Ronyak]

Why use a Dyson and risk clogging the HEPA filters, unless it's an extra that you no longer plan to use for normal purposes?  You can purchase a small cyclone designed for use in collecting woodworking dust with a shop vacuum from Oneida or ClearVue for a reasonable price, and save your household vacuum for the uses it was designed for.

Dave R.

 

[Eli]

It is an extra. Wrong voltage.  ;D

But I bet you could buy just the canister as a replacement part. It's gotta be less than $200 US.