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As good as the Dust Deputy is, it does not help the HF 2HP collector in my opinion.
Think about what you just said. "The one thing I do is I only have one machine running at any time, so I don't have any duct work. I just have one 4" flex hose hooked up to one machine at a time."
Okay, so you have two things killing your suction. A 10 foot long 4" hose has about the same resistance as 100ft of smooth 5" pipe. Then you are putting a cyclone in the flow. That probably drops your static pressure by at least 4" to 6". You only had about 8" to 10" of static to start with so you are cutting it in half.
The inlet of the HF collector, If you remove the "Wye" is 5" diameter. The best system for a single hose setup would be 5" hose.
The Wynn cartridge should have helped the flow a little and it does a better job of capturing fine dust so it would be a keeper.
If you want to double something you would be better off double the cyclones, connected in parallel, side by side. Connect the cyclone top outlets to two 4" hoses terminated at the wye inlet on the fan. Then add a 4" x 4" x 5" wye and two short 4" hoses to the cyclone inlets. Then run a 5" hose from this wye to which ever machine you want to run.
Think about what you just said. "The one thing I do is I only have one machine running at any time, so I don't have any duct work. I just have one 4" flex hose hooked up to one machine at a time."
Okay, so you have two things killing your suction. A 10 foot long 4" hose has about the same resistance as 100ft of smooth 5" pipe. Then you are putting a cyclone in the flow. That probably drops your static pressure by at least 4" to 6". You only had about 8" to 10" of static to start with so you are cutting it in half.
The inlet of the HF collector, If you remove the "Wye" is 5" diameter. The best system for a single hose setup would be 5" hose.
The Wynn cartridge should have helped the flow a little and it does a better job of capturing fine dust so it would be a keeper.
If you want to double something you would be better off double the cyclones, connected in parallel, side by side. Connect the cyclone top outlets to two 4" hoses terminated at the wye inlet on the fan. Then add a 4" x 4" x 5" wye and two short 4" hoses to the cyclone inlets. Then run a 5" hose from this wye to which ever machine you want to run.