Festool Air Scrubber SYS AIR

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Festool just announced a portable air cleaner with 680 m³/h output, active filtration monitoring as well as M-class, H-class and HEPA filter system options.
Apparently there is going to be a ceiling mount, from the looks of it it's more like a Sys RB dolly robbed of its wheels and replaced by threaded rods to mount into the ceiling.
Unofficial price indications float at around the 1000€ mark [eek]

https://www.protrader.one/aktuelles/sys-air-saubere-luft-auf-der-baustelle?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0DJ36p84CmtIb0tXdCgzFIPJR23x2t3-554-4mVDLisVSh9ZzSzoB_hdw_aem_wAZxFA3y8T5EoZ7GovUueQ
 

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Very cool device. As we know, they aren’t the first to do this in a sustainer, but we all know the Festool solution will be very well thought out and their warranty will be a welcome change to the few forum members that explored the other systainer based solution.
 
Ceiling mount seems wasteful for such an expensive device; if you are permanently mounting it I think other offerings from Jet, etc. make sense.  There is no need for organization in that application (vs. mobile/job site/something you are storing and taking out), and a similar non-systainer solution would be lower height (even if it takes up a wider area).

For job site use I think it could make sense, collection at the source is never perfect.
 
So for the sys air M, that's about 400cfm. Any info. on its noise level?
 
I'd imagine this is an expensive piece of equipment to just hang from the ceiling. Seems like there are better/cheaper options out there for that purpose.  [smile]

However, I could see mounting this on a Sys Cart and rolling it around the shop for air scrubbing at the source. Those 6" x 48" belt and 12" disc combination sanding machines come to mind. Even with dust collection a lot of dust still gets away.

Remote control would also be nice.

Until now this was my only option.

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I appreciate the availability of the dual-purpose duct to either help with source-point collection and/or to create a negative pressure environment as needed, too.

Even though this may take its sweet time to make it to North America, and will likely be expensive as all get-out, it's less vaporware than some other past Systainer-based options, and hopefully with better support.
 
cpw said:
Ceiling mount seems wasteful for such an expensive device; if you are permanently mounting it I think other offerings from Jet, etc. make sense. There is no need for organization in that application (vs. mobile/job site/something you are storing and taking out), and a similar non-systainer solution would be lower height (even if it takes up a wider area).

For job site use I think it could make sense, collection at the source is never perfect.
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Agree 100%. my OLD Delta unit (discontinued) (which is damn near identical to the Jet), moves 1100 CFM. It's a little undersized for the space it's in but it hangs in the center of the shop and does a good job of catching whatever the main DC unit misses (or the Festool CT).

For that use, it's cheaper to build some plywood boxes around the el cheap box fans and use furnace filters.

But this seems like a GREAT option for catching stuff right where you're working (which is what matters) and also keeping the area you're working clean if it's in a house (which is what Festool is usually target).

Perfect use case: I recently had to grind (with an angle grinder) on a poured concrete countertop in the bathroom to fit a new sink (LONG story!), and it created so much dust we ended up having to scrub down the entire room afterwards. This would have been perfect to just sit next to me and suck it all in.
 
For on-site work, the portable SysAir would be excellent. Maybe for, say, a solder station, too. For the workshop, I have a PM1200 ceiling-mounted to pull dust off the bench or tablesaw away from me into the other garage bay. That bay is connected to the main bay on the other end of the wall so it makes for a nice donut airflow. MDF dust kills me, but when I run MDF through the tablesaw with the DC off to see how it handles the dust, I see a plume go off into the cleaner. Works well. I put a better filter in it, though that will affect air-flow volumes.
 
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