With the unit you are looking at, as long as you keep it in the same room there won't be any heat loss or gain. The filter bags work O.K. as long as you don't beat too much of the dust out of them. The dust on the inside surface of the filter bag acts to trap the finer dust particles that would normally escape through the weave of the material.
A dedicated circuit is ideal, but as long as you are not running other machinery on the same circuit at the same time you should be O.K. Most woodworking machines require dust collection, but a few do not.

Honestly what got me concerned was the plug ... it has one of those plugs w the sideways terminals :/


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My own opinion: If you are going to the trouble of wiring for a 220v machine, make it worth the effort. I don’t see that particular dust collector as being worth the effort, because of the shortcomings that others have pointed out. If you want a great dust collector, you should go larger and get a cyclone with a larger motor and canister filters. If you want to get “better than nothing” dust collection, you can do it with a dust collector that only needs 110v. Then you can save up enough money over time to get something better.

I used a “better than nothing” dust collector with a trash can cyclone for a number of years, then I stepped up to a Clear Vue. The Clear Vue was worth the cost of wiring the circuit.

I’m just at a point where I want to expand my capacity. I’m moving into a much larger room and thought dust collection would be something I could build around:)

You don't have to spend money on something like a Clear Vue to do better than what you are currently doing, and do better (for the money) than the dust collector you are eyeing. You can get a 1hp blower that runs on 110v, and hook it up to a few different options for a separator, then hook that blower up directly to each machine, as needed. You can run the output to a decent filter that can be used later if you upgrade. If you keep the hoses short, it can work pretty well.

This is a good point. How big is the space? One eye opening thing for me when researching dust collection was Bill Pentz saying that a hobby woodworker with poor dust collection takes in more harmful dust than a full time woodworker in an industrial shop. Part of that equation is we’re often working in tight spaces.

My understanding is drum sander is basically the worst tool with regards to dust. If it were me I would put the better filter on there and just deal with occasionally cleaning it out. It takes 15 minutes at most and would only add a couple hundred to your cost.

Or, something to think about - you could do this:

https://www.harborfreight.com/2-hp-indu ... 97869.html

https://wynnenv.com/products-page/woodw ... ridge-kit/

Oneida Air Systems Super Dust Deputy (4” Cyclone Kit) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y37FF9D/re ... vFb6MWH3GE

This setup would cost you:

$160 for the collector (20% off coupons available everywhere)

$165.00 for the Wynn filter

$230.00 for the dust deputy

That’s ~550.00 for an actual cyclone and a decent filter both of which can be used when you upgrade to a better motor in the future. You get the chip separation and the filtering and the throw away HF motor. No wiring upgrade required.

If you like to tinker, put the Rikon impeller in there: https://www.lumberjocks.com/clagwell/blog/series/22957

This is my current setup except I have the Dust Deputy XL and 6” pipe on everything. Works pretty well for a budget setup on 110:



Brad


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That’s a sweet setup for 550...