Clear Vue Cyclones ~ Drawings and Specifications

PROUDLY MADE IN THE U.S.A.

Motor

5 HP Leeson motor 230 Volts 1 Phase 20.8 FLA (Full Load Amps)

Impeller

Backward Inclined Material Handling Impeller complete with taper lock bushing

Blower Housing

3/4" MDF Board Top and Bottom with 1/8" clear PETG plastic wrapper

CV 1800

18" Diameter x 48" long with inclined rectangular intake chute. 3/4" MDF top. 6" long piece of Flex hose connected to bottom of cyclone. Max air flow through a 6" pipe 1442 CFM

CV 1800 MAX

Re-designed 18" Diameter x 48" long with inclined rectangular intake chute. 3/4" MDF top. 6" long piece of Flex hose connected to bottom of cyclone. Max air flow through a 8 " pipe 1935 CFM

Transition

MDF Sides and Bottom with clear PETG wrappers. Note: comes unassembled due to shipping damage of prior assembled units. UPS managed to break every one that I assembled and shipped in it's own box. It takes about 5 min to put it together. It takes about 5 days to get a replacement.

Blast Gates - Included with Combo

Made from 1/8" Clear PETG Plastic. Made to fit tightly over 6" PVC S&D pipe. It is worth noting that we are the only manufacturer that makes blast gates that fit over the pipe. We recently bought some metal ones and they have a 5 1/2" hole in them. This reduces the air flow by about 15%

Noise Level

Our units now measure 78db @ 10'. This is a good thing but I don't want to mislead anyone. I've seen one particular company brag about their units only being 78 - 82db. That is still too loud in my opinion. That is why we suggest enclosing these units in a closet. In my latest closet I lined it with 2" thich rock wool bats and the noise level in my shop now measures 62 db. By compison normal conversation is about 70 db. Click here for a short video.

Shipping Weight

While some manufactures brag on their units being built like a tank, I personally don't want to have to hang a 400# dust collector on my wall.............ours is 110#

Test Results, Clear Vue Cyclone w/15-in. fan:

Test Conditions:

Test pipe of same diameter as cyclone inlet (6-in.); test pipe intake fitted with 90º flange, outside diameter equal to three test pipe diameters; Pilot tube (pressure sensor), Dwyer # 167-6, located in center of duct, 10 diameters (60-in.) from flanged intake, 4 diameters from cyclone inlet; Velocity and Static Pressures measured with Dwyer 477-1 digital manometer; correction factors for humidity and temperature discrepancies not required (meteorological differences + nil).

The above methods are in accordance with standard testing procedures.

Test Results:

Static Pressure (water gauge inches)	Velocity Pressure (water gauge inches)	Velocity (fpm)	Volume (cfm)
4.19	3.36	7341	1442
5.07	2.88	6797	1335
6.46	2.52	6358	1249
8.18	2.09	5790	1137
9.98	1.51	4921	967
11.80	0.93	3862	759
12.89	0.54	2943	578

Test Circumstances:

Testing was done to supplement a general survey of dust collectors, ranging from (alleged) 1hp, 650cfm single-stage collectors to 5hp cyclones; common auxiliary tests (for example, ammeter readings) were not conducted.

Testing efforts also revealed that the electrical supply at the test site included only 20A/230v circuits (insufficient for a motor that draws roughly 21 amps); this necessitated jumping from one leg of a three-phase circuit (which I believe actually delivers 208 volts) with approximately 80-ft. of Romex, this being the electrician’s whim. I think it’s safe to say that the ClearVue was tested under somewhat unfavorable conditions. The upshot of all this is that I believe the test numbers to be on the pessimistic side, and that better performance can reasonably be expected in a more normal shop environment.

Performance Curve:

Notes About the Performance Curve:

Finally (and maybe most important), this is all done while sustaining a high separation-efficiency cyclone design. Cyclones that can’t pre-separate particles as small as 25 microns have been considered crude for some time; this doesn’t prevent some manufacturers from marketing machines that pass along quarts or even gallons of dust to their filters. Only an adman would call such a contraption a Two-Stage Dust Collector.