JET Cyclone Dust Collector, 2-Micron Filter, 1-1/2 HP, 115V 1Ph (Model JCDC-1.5)

I bought this as a secondary dust collector to service a few smaller tools in one corner of my shop. I have a 3hp cyclone servicing the larger tools at the other end of the shop, and I prefer not to have it running just for a miter saw or router table. I was previously using a wall mount 1hp Grizzly for these smaller tools and it just wasn't powerful enough. I chose the Jet 1.5hp because I wanted to be able to plug it into any 110 outlet in my shop. Plus it has the dust bin and good air filter. I wasn't sure if it would be a big enough difference over the old 1hp wall mount, but I was pleasantly surprised at the difference! This thing has some serious power. I only have 3 short lines connected to it. The longest is about 10 feet to my miter saw hood. So I don't know how it would perform over long distances across the entire shop, but it does very well in my setup. The old one couldn't even keep the box under my router table empty with only 3 feet of pipe in between them. This Jet 1.5hp seem 3 times as powerful and gets all the dust. Others have noted problems with the remote. I haven't experienced any problems as of yet.Assembly was pretty easy. Some parts of the manual could be clearer and the bolts need to be labeled better. Overall, not bad. I only needed a second person when attaching the blower unit to the top of the frame. We each held one side and were able to slip the bolts in at the same time.Delivery was easy. Amazon delivered in a box truck that was small enough for my circle drive. They sent 2 men for delivery. The unit comes in a big box on a small pallet. Two people can pick up the entire pallet. It's not hard to move around.This a great little dust collector at an appropriate price. After this purchase, I would definitely consider Jet again if I was replacing my larger dust collector.

Dust collector reviewI’ve been running this for a few hours and the result is much better than previous single stage 1hp unit. I use this in a 2 car garage dedicated shop with about 15’ of 6” duct across the ceiling with a few 4” flex drops with gates to my equipment. When I turned it on it cleared out all the left over debris my previous system couldn’t handle.I was very pleased with running my table saw with almost zero dust coming off the blade above the cut. The dust collector had about a large coffee can worth of dust in the main collector and again almost zero dust in the air filter area after a good “raking” of the filter.The next test will be heavy demand on the thickness sander. This will be the true test of this units ability to handle the fine work.Agee tips on building. Staring with removing the bottom staples where the carton is attached to the skid. Then easily lift off the carton.Unload all the parts. Please note that many parts are nested inside of others. I thought two bigs parts were missing but were inside the filter canister and dust bin. Get some little trays to easily find the right nuts and bolts. The supplied wrenches are useless, don’t bother with them, and the bolts are off size and neither metric nor standard properly fit well. I used an adjustable wrench for final tightening.I used the same technique another mentioned by mounting the motor with the stand laid down and then easily lifted the unit upright. Go slow with starting all bolts. Like I said they’re a little off but all worked if you remain patient. My total assembly time from open to built was about 90 minutesMy unit measured at 79 db about 6 db lower than my previous unit. My ambient sound level about 50 db. Very happy about that. The pitch is also lower making the sound almost relaxing.I would recommend this unit and am relieved as this unit was bit more expensive than I wanted but my health is important.

I only have owned one dust collector so I can't compare this to other units. I have little doubt that the fanatics are right, and a big 6-inch suction would be healthier, but I can't install a big collector so I am glad to have this one. It is small enough to be simple to handle, does at least a pretty good job, and the radio on-off control is awesome. Whole unit would be useless for me without the remote.I would not give this unit high marks for assembly, however. The fasteners are so cheap and inaccurate it is impossible to tell if they are metric or Imperial ( they are metric but so sloppy that imperial wrenches fit better. ) Basically it was annoying to assemble despite being not very complicated.

I have a detached shop, and have used a shop vac for years, but decided to upgrade to this unit. It was a bit difficult to assemble, but with a couple of block and tackles from the rafters, you can easily lift the heavy motor. It seems to work great in the limited time that I used it yesterday in the shop, and most of the dust ended up in the barrel, rather than in the filter, as it should be. It is quite a bit quieter than my shop vacuum (though it is about 20 years old). I am glad that I got it.

I received this dust collector about 4 weeks ago, and haven't been able to use it because it will not stay running. Called tech support a couple different times, I did everything they told me to do and nothing fixed the problem. they said it was my LED light causing the unit to shut down and I had to buy a isobar 2 filter, which i did and that did nothing and unit continually shut off, currently it won't run for even a minute or 2. The first time i tried cutting with my table saw it would shut down. Table saw and dust collector are on separate dedicated 20 AMP breakers. I have to push the remote ON button several times to get it to turn on, I am extremely disappointed in this jet product!! I started a return but it seems that I'm responsible for the cost to return a defective product!!!!! MORE WASTED MONEY