Dust Collection

[Chase]

After reading several posts regarding grounding dust collection equipment I have a question.

My dust collection system consists of a Home Depot, 6.5 hp, shop vac and a 10 foot 2.5” shop vac flexhose. It gets connected to a home made box w/small holes for large pieces and a old floor sweep for drum sanding. I also have equipment with their own dust ports. I plan to install a 2” pvc pipe the length of the garage and flex hose to each device.

I plan on running a bare copper wire through the pipes and plugging the wire into the ground hole of an outlet.

Will this work and ground the system?

Chase

[CanadianScroller]

Sounds like it would work to me.

[Rolf]

I would not! plug the ground wire into an outlet run it to a water pipe instead.

[Wood Dog]

Another question on grounding....are you suppose to run the wire inside and outside of the plastic pipe?
Also when you run the copper wire inside the plastic pipe once you get to the vacuum itself do you just dangle the wire inside of the vacuum??????

[Chase]

Originally Posted by Wood Dog

Another question on grounding....are you suppose to run the wire inside and outside of the plastic pipe?
Also when you run the copper wire inside the plastic pipe once you get to the vacuum itself do you just dangle the wire inside of the vacuum??????

I was planning on running the wire inside the pipe. Would like for one of our experts to confirm this.

Chase

[workin for wood]

Yes, inside the pipe. Drill small hole and feed wire outside pipe then back into pipe to get around the dust chutes. Ground wire comes back outside pipe where pipe attaches to tool and is wrapped around a screw someplace on the tool being grounded. Same thing at collector end, wire goes to a screw on the dust collector. Wire also goes to the ground on an outlet, that's the #3 wire of a standard 3 prong plug. Or, it can go on a water pipe if you have one. Use a stranded copper wire which you can get a whole role of it from a box store. Stranded is easier to work with, it's flexible.