We have a very small cabinet shop with a few employees. We currently have several small dust collectors that are moved around the shop as needed, but as you all know, this is a huge waste of resources and the filters on these things don't really work at all.
We have a 30 yard dumpster that we empty all shavings, dust, and scraps into right now. I want to automate this somehow so that our DC just shoots into the dumpster and we don't have to think about it anymore.
Right now the only solution I've come up with is a large cyclone with an airlock. Airlock dumps into a tee and an auxillary blower pushes the dust that drops in out into the dumpster. This seems really inefficient to me though. Why do we need two blowers to do the job that one should be able to accomplish?
I came across http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Blowing_Sawdust_into_a_Big_Trailer.html which describes our situation perfectly, and there the users are talking about utilizing airlocks again, and using a second blower to shoot into the container.
My question is: Why can't I just have a single blower inline (Material handling) and shooting into the dumpster outside? Would that not work just as well while simultaneously eliminating the need for the cyclone/separator and secondary blower?