I have one of these Triton dust extraction systems and it certainly keeps my shop vac clean. The slightly transparent bucket allows me to see, however, that there is a cloud of dust recirculating from the bottom of the bucket, up the centre towards the outlet pipe in the centre of the lid. The device has a cloth filter inside the lid which stops the dust leaving the bucket, but it clogs quite quickly in use and has to be rapped against the bucket to dislodge the dust layer and restore air flow.
As you'll see the lid has two inlets, each with a blast gate and a diverter to introduce swirl. With one gate open, the incoming material can clearly be seen swirling around the side of the bucket and descending to the bottom, albeit with recirculating dust rising through the centre of the swirl. I don't understand why there are two opposite facing diverter vanes which must surely produce opposing flows, although this isn't an issue to me as I only ever use a single inlet hose from whichever tool I'm using at the time.
The bucket is 20 litres, adequate for my very small workshop - it's a single garage.
My proposal is to modify the inlets with a single diverter hood so that material from both inlets will be swirled around the bucket in the same direction, and to add a Thien plate a couple of inches down the wall of the bucket. Has anyone here done this with this product?
There is a detailed description on the web of a modification that stacks the Triton bucket on another cannister and inserts a large funnel between the two, plus a long extension of the centre outlet, but it seems a lot of trouble to go to if a simple Thien plate would prevent recirculation.
I'd make my plate from steel sheet cut on a waterjet, and probably mount it on a long bolt, replacing the bolt that holds the cloth filter to the lid. in this way, the plate would lift out with the lid for ease of emptying the bucket.
Comments would be much valued.
Ed Form
As you'll see the lid has two inlets, each with a blast gate and a diverter to introduce swirl. With one gate open, the incoming material can clearly be seen swirling around the side of the bucket and descending to the bottom, albeit with recirculating dust rising through the centre of the swirl. I don't understand why there are two opposite facing diverter vanes which must surely produce opposing flows, although this isn't an issue to me as I only ever use a single inlet hose from whichever tool I'm using at the time.
The bucket is 20 litres, adequate for my very small workshop - it's a single garage.
My proposal is to modify the inlets with a single diverter hood so that material from both inlets will be swirled around the bucket in the same direction, and to add a Thien plate a couple of inches down the wall of the bucket. Has anyone here done this with this product?
There is a detailed description on the web of a modification that stacks the Triton bucket on another cannister and inserts a large funnel between the two, plus a long extension of the centre outlet, but it seems a lot of trouble to go to if a simple Thien plate would prevent recirculation.
I'd make my plate from steel sheet cut on a waterjet, and probably mount it on a long bolt, replacing the bolt that holds the cloth filter to the lid. in this way, the plate would lift out with the lid for ease of emptying the bucket.
Comments would be much valued.
Ed Form