i've an associate that has had a 2.5 ton mini in his shop for 12 years one of the first ones offered here in az. and in the last 7 years has been in his shop working on his lathe and other tools half the days of the week, and probalby about 5 - 6 days a week in summer months when its a tad too warm here to work without some air movement, his course of action is, clean it monthly pending on his work in shop, some months he claims little to nothing in filters and or coils, and occassionally he gets a whiff of dust when he uses a shop vac to suck and or blow dust out.
i have 2 ton in my shop approx 900 sq ft of shop space, its only been in for a few months, and just last month began using is, do have stand alone dust pick up, a festool vac for the ros, and misc. and large dust collector for saws, planers and big sanders, still assembling the big system for shop, took me forever to come up with a plan, but have a 4hp griz in a stand alone room to clean shop up.
Of course i would suspect geography has a lot to do with functionality and success of unit, with the almost lack of humidity here they tend to work simpler and easier, at least thats what one of my ac contractor claims, but like most things maintenance regularly can extend the life of most mechanical items.
i watched some youtube wood worker install a filter system in front of the intake on his mini splits, pretty simple, and was surprised at how little dust there was after months of working in shop.
any event, every thing breaks, and as murphy would have it do so, at the most inappropriate time, much like my pool pump, works all winter long, but once we hit the hundy a day mark it croaks, takes pool it seems like hours to turn swamp color much like DC is.
hope it is a simple fix, for sure they are a boon for small, even large shops pending your needs.
best for the fix
rj in az
i have 2 ton in my shop approx 900 sq ft of shop space, its only been in for a few months, and just last month began using is, do have stand alone dust pick up, a festool vac for the ros, and misc. and large dust collector for saws, planers and big sanders, still assembling the big system for shop, took me forever to come up with a plan, but have a 4hp griz in a stand alone room to clean shop up.
Of course i would suspect geography has a lot to do with functionality and success of unit, with the almost lack of humidity here they tend to work simpler and easier, at least thats what one of my ac contractor claims, but like most things maintenance regularly can extend the life of most mechanical items.
i watched some youtube wood worker install a filter system in front of the intake on his mini splits, pretty simple, and was surprised at how little dust there was after months of working in shop.
any event, every thing breaks, and as murphy would have it do so, at the most inappropriate time, much like my pool pump, works all winter long, but once we hit the hundy a day mark it croaks, takes pool it seems like hours to turn swamp color much like DC is.
hope it is a simple fix, for sure they are a boon for small, even large shops pending your needs.
best for the fix
rj in az
The repair story always changes when they might not get business to replace a unit.
