Exhausting Outside Question

[mattgibbons1427]

Hello Everyone,

I’m sorry if this question has already been answered but I couldn’t find anything. I just bought a GF Plus and it will arrive in about a month. I would like to vent it out the window but the window leads directly to my tenant’s walkway. Will the smell outside be noticeable? If so, is there anything I can do to pre-filter it before it goes outside, without paying $1,000.00?

Any help on this topic would be appreciated.

Thanks

[evansd2]

@mattgibbons1427

the smell outside be noticeable?

Yes.

Maybe not sometimes when the wind is up or you’re doing a light engrave, but if you’re cutting wood or acrylic or doing a deeper engrave it’ll definitely be noticeable.

@dwardio had some success by routing the exhaust up.

Re-vamped venting setup

For over a year, Trogdor and then Arges were ventilated with the tried-and-true dryer hose out the window method. My workshop is in the basement, so the only way to vent outside was out through a window well… [IMG_1363] For a variety of reasons, I wasn’t 100% satisfied with this setup. Do you know how hard it is to make an egress window air-tight?:tired_face: Over the past few months, I decided that exhausting out and up past our roofline was the way to go. Not only would it keep the exhaus…

[deirdrebeth]

@evansd2

routing the exhaust up.

This - even if you don’t go all the way up to your roofline, going just a few feet up can make a world of difference.

[mattgibbons1427]

Thanks! I will look into this!

[mattgibbons1427]

Thanks!

[brokendrum]

@mattgibbons1427

Will the smell outside be noticeable

Answer is ‘you betcha’, especially with the stinky resources.
More going on than smell. Noise is a concern as well.
Acoustics is an entire rabbit hole discussion of it’s own, but there will be a shrill audio when the machine is active.
Standing next to it isn’t bad. Less than a vacuum, plus it diminishes rather fast as you move away.
That said, there is one spot, at the start of a curve a little over 100 feet away and at a 90 degree vector from the exhaust, where if on foot you can hear the machine running very well. Not a clue as to why, but the Wife noticed it once while talking to a neighbor and I verified it is like standing about 10 feet away.
Like I said, acoustics is a thing.
All can be ignored if you have a schedule like mine. I do a majority of my work between midnight and morning. Retirement can be like that.

[deirdrebeth]

@brokendrum

a shrill audio when the machine is active.

If you turn off the internal fan and pick up an external one the shrill noise goes away! You still get the singing motors, but not the high pitched whine.

[Yogi_Bear]

Me like singing motor more than quiet motor.