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beam central vacuum system - a couple fast thoughts

updated tue 1 mar 05

 

pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on sun 27 feb 05


I do not know anything about the 'Beam' Central Vacuums...

But if I were to have a central Vacuum for a Potting Studio,
I would have it as a dedicated for that Studio set-up,
and...

I would not only vent it outside, but if I had lots of dusts
to be Vacuuming all the time, I would vent them into a 55
gallon plastic barrel containing water, where the vent is
underwater, and that would capture about all the dusts well
enough to return them into Clay rather than to be clogging
silly dry 'filters' all the time, or leaving Aeolian
winnowings of white-ish fields on the side-yard or what.

One can get Commercial or Industrial 4 inch pipe Vacuums
that are intended for example to sit atop a 55 gallon sized
recepticle, and these cost only a couple hundred bucks I
think, and likely way out-pull a 'Beam' or other 'Central'
type homeowner kind. One of these may be readily adaped to
various modifications of arranges. However, the drum these
do sit atop is not the vent, but is the collection basin for
how the cyclone dumps it's particles and solids...but the
vent could be easily extended to terminate under Water in a
seperate vessel, instead of useing the usual hepa-filter or
other filter-bag.



Phil
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