Extractor advice

[Renegade]

Hi
I’ve been (slowly) expanding my workshop and now am in need of an extractor that I will (eventually) set up as part of a whole ‘shop’ system. I want to be able to use the thicknesser / planer without having to drag it outside and in general I just need something effective & efficient.
I’ve been looking at the Axminster & Sealey (couple of other brands too but all seem much of a muchness) wall mounted extractors:

Axminster Workshop AW37E Dust Extractor - 230V

This extractor can be used in small home workshops for most common wood machining tasks where a higher airflow than provided by a vacuum extractor is required. The quiet running induction motor provides power to extract from many small workshop...

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Dust & Chip Extractor 1hp | SM48 | 1 Year Warranty | Sealey

Mobile workshop extractor suitable for attachment to most static workshop machines including bandsaws, table saws, scroll saws, planers and sanders. Supplied with 2m of Ø100mm suction ducting.

www.sealey.co.uk

My question is…if I already have a cyclone and a shop air filter, will I still benefit from getting an extractor with a filter like:

Axminster Professional AP50E Dust Extractor - 230V

This wall mounted extractor is perfectly suited to small workshops, woodturners or for connection to a stand-alone machine. It is especially suited to situations where floor space is at a premium. Well constructed and efficient, its 1hp motor generates...

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Priorities wise I’d say it’s
- Noise
- Size
- Budget
In that order although I don’t have mega ££ to be spanking (thanks to my growing festool addiction ).

Workshop space is VERY limited atm which is why I was looking at the wall mounted ones but anything relatively compact & mobile is fine.

Suggestions & advice please

Ps have already fallen down a YT hole ‘researching’ this so please no more videos!

 

[TRITON]

I've just bought one. The axminster Craft AC153E(now called the AW153E)
I've yet to set it up yet- still reorganizing the workroom, but eventually when I do i'l add a review to it.

I spent a fair bit of time trying to pick one, but i would say go for a big a motor as possible. The one above is 2hp, claims to shift 2000 cubic meters of air/hr which should be fine for everything, the thicknesser being the machine that needs the greatest airflow
I looked at the AP50E and liked that due to it having a fine filter, but the airflow(920m3/hr) i felt was bordering the minimum for most machines*, and i'd rather have more than less.
*eg the basic 216mm axminster sawbench requires 850m3/h(254mm saw requires 1000m3/hr )and their craft PT is wanting 1000m3/hr with most other thicknessers looking at that level of airflow as a minimum.

Plus if you want to set it up as part of a system, some will be lost to the lengths of 100mmm tubing, so again the greater airflow will help negate some of that loss.

So if i were you I'd look more towards the AW153E, especially if you want it to be part of a system. My intention was to get the 153, then at a later stage buy the fine filter drum(£199), so it wasn't such a big outlay all at once.

You buy the main extractor, then a couple to a a few months later get the fine filter(i'm actually buying the fine filter for mine today- via ebay as theres no postal costs to add)

Noise -
A thicknesser at full tilt is seriously loud, and sawing timber is also loud, as such you will be wearing headphones for 99% of the time so the added noise of a saw/PT and extractor shouldn't matter.

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