DustHog D Series · DA, DB and DBM Ambient Media Collectors
DustHog D Series DA, DB and DBM Ambient Dust Collectors
Not every air quality problem needs a cartridge collector and a compressed air line. The D Series hangs a bag and box filter unit over the floor, moves 1,350 to 3,600 CFM through it, and cleans up a room with about as little machinery as the job allows.
Your D Series unit, filter bags, box filters, HEPA and carbon afterfilters and replacement parts ship from us anywhere in the country, with one stated price on your quote.
This is a media bag unit, and the filters are a running cost rather than a one time purchase. A cartridge collector pulses its filters clean and buys you years. A bag and box filter unit gets its filters changed. That is not a knock on it, it is the trade that makes the machine simple and inexpensive, and it is the number that decides whether this is the cheaper answer over five years or only on day one. We will run that arithmetic with you before you order.
At a glance
The simple end of ambient collection, and sometimes the right end
DustHog is direct about what the D Series is for: a simple and economical way to collect dry airborne particles, suspended in the ambient air above the plant floor, drawing fume and dust out of the workspace and recirculating the filtered air back into the plant.
The whole family covers 1,350 to 3,600 CFM on motors from 0.75 to 3.0 hp, and it will run on single phase power in several builds. That last part matters more than it sounds. A shop with no three phase in the back bay has very few real options in ambient collection, and this is one of them.
Filtration is where the D Series is more flexible than its price suggests. DustHog offers MERV 11 and MERV 15 main filter efficiency, and the DB and DBM take a HEPA 99.97 percent or a carbon afterfilter behind that. Carbon is the one people forget: it is the answer to odor, not to particulate.
- ModelsDA, DB and DBM
- Airflow1,350 to 3,600 CFM
- Motor0.75 to 3.0 hp
- EfficiencyMERV 11 or 15, HEPA or carbon after
- CleaningNot published by DustHog
- ConfigurationsThirteen orderable
- Filter mediaMedia bag and box filter
- Media areaNot published by DustHog
- Compressed airNot published by DustHog
The models
Thirteen builds, and the voltage in your building narrows it fast
DustHog publishes thirteen orderable D Series builds. Airflow bands overlap across them, so the practical way through the list is to start with what power you have and what control you want, then pick the airflow.
| Part number | Airflow | Motor | Current | Supply | Control |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01-7016-01 | 1,350 to 2,000 CFM | 1.0 hp | 13.6 A | 115V / 1 ph | External motor control |
| 01-7016-02 | 1,350 to 2,000 CFM | 1.0 hp | 8.6 A | 230V / 1 ph | External motor control |
| 01-7017 | 1,350 to 2,000 CFM | 1.0 hp | 3.4 to 1.7 A | 230 to 460V / 3 ph | External motor control |
| 01-7018 | 1,350 to 2,000 CFM | 1.0 hp | 1.4 A | 575V / 3 ph | External motor control |
| 01-7019 | 1,400 to 2,500 CFM | 2.0 hp | 6.4 to 3.2 A | 230 to 460V / 3 ph | External motor control |
| 01-7020 | 1,400 to 2,500 CFM | 2.0 hp | 2.3 A | 575V / 3 ph | External motor control |
| 01-1054 | 2,000 to 2,200 CFM | 0.75 hp | 12.9 A | 115V / 1 ph | Internal controller |
| 01-1122 | 2,000 to 2,200 CFM | 0.75 hp | 8.1 A | 230V / 1 ph | Internal controller |
| 01-1042-01 | 2,000 to 3,100 CFM | 2.0 hp | 6.5 A | 208V / 3 ph | External motor control |
| 01-1042-02 | 2,000 to 3,100 CFM | 2.0 hp | 6.4 to 3.2 A | 230 to 460V / 3 ph | External motor control |
| 01-1102 | 2,000 to 3,100 CFM | 2.0 hp | 23 to 11.5 A | 115 to 230V / 1 ph | External motor control |
| 01-1060-01 | 2,300 to 3,600 CFM | 3.0 hp | 7.8 A | 208V / 3 ph | External motor control |
| 01-1060-02 | 2,300 to 3,600 CFM | 3.0 hp | 7.4 to 3.7 A | 230 to 460V / 3 ph | External motor control |
Which part number is a DA, a DB or a DBM. DustHog publishes the D Series builds by part number and lists DA, DB and DBM as the three series in the family, without tying each part number to one of them in the public catalog. We confirm the series with the factory when we build your quote, because it decides whether a HEPA or carbon afterfilter is available on the unit you are looking at. If the afterfilter matters to you, say so up front and we will start from that end.
Single phase is a real option here. Five of the thirteen builds run on single phase, at 115V, 230V, or either. On most ambient collectors that is not on the menu at all. If the bay you want covered has no three phase and running it is a five figure electrical job, this is the family worth looking at first.
Internal controller or external motor control. Two builds carry an internal controller, which means the unit starts and protects itself and your electrician runs a feeder. The other eleven use an external motor starter, which is its own line item and its own install task. Neither is better; they are different amounts of work on install day and different line items on the quote, and we put whichever applies in front of you rather than behind you.
Footprint and hanging weight. DustHog publishes the family at 60.375 to 70 in. deep, 24 to 24.5 in. wide, 24 to 26.25 in. high, weighing 170, 183 or 270 lbs depending on the series. That is light next to a cartridge collector, which is part of why it goes overhead easily, but the structural check still comes before the purchase order. Powder coated mild steel in Hog Gray.
What you choose
Four decisions, and the filter efficiency is where the money is
The build settles the airflow and the power. What you configure after that is what the air passes through on its way back into the room.
| Choice | Options | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Build | Thirteen part numbers, 1,350 to 3,600 CFM | Airflow, motor, and the power it needs |
| Main filter | MERV 11 or MERV 15 | What size particle it catches, and how often bags change |
| Afterfilter | HEPA 99.97 percent or carbon, on the DB and DBM | Whether you are chasing fine particulate or odor |
| Control | Internal controller, or an external motor starter | How the unit is started and protected, and the install scope |
MERV 11 or MERV 15 is a running cost decision as much as a filtration one. MERV 15 catches finer particulate, which is what you want on weld fume or anything you can see hanging in the light. It also loads faster on a dusty process, and on a media bag unit loading means changing. On coarse nuisance dust MERV 11 will do the work and change less often. Pick it against the dust rather than against the spec sheet.
Carbon is for odor, and only for odor. If the complaint is a smell rather than a haze, a carbon afterfilter on a DB or DBM is the right tool and no amount of particulate filtration will fix it. If the complaint is a haze, carbon does nothing for you. Getting that one straight before the order saves a filter budget spent on the wrong thing.
HEPA is a serious commitment on an ambient unit. A HEPA afterfilter puts real resistance in front of the fan, and it is expensive to replace. It earns its place where the discharge returns into a space with a genuine fine particulate concern. On a general shop haze it is usually more filter than the job needs, and we will say so rather than quote it because it sounds better.
Media and filtration
Bag and box filters, and what more media area actually buys you
The D Series filters on media bags and box filters rather than on pulse cleaned cartridges. DustHog states the media collection surface holds up to 30 percent more contaminants than comparable products, which on a change out machine translates directly into fewer change outs.
That is the honest way to think about media area on this family. On a cartridge collector, media area buys you lower face velocity and a longer life between cleanings. On a bag unit it buys you time between the ladder trips, because there is no pulse system taking the cake off for you.
DustHog also calls the filters easy to replace and clean, which matters on an overhead unit more than it does on anything sitting on the floor. Every minute of filter service on a ceiling collector is a minute on a lift.
What DustHog does not publish for the D Series is a media area figure or a compressed air requirement, so we do not put numbers on either. If bag life is the thing your decision turns on, that is a factory question and we will ask it rather than estimate.
Cleaning and ownership
What owning a media bag collector actually looks like
Filters are the operating budget
There is no pulse system and no compressed air line, which removes a whole category of install cost and a whole category of things that break. What you take on instead is a filter change schedule and the shelf space for spares.
Before you order, it is worth putting a number on that: how dusty the process really is, how many units it takes to cover the room, and what a set of media costs. We would rather do that arithmetic with you than have you find it in year two. You can run your own room first with the ambient unit selector.
Overhead service needs a plan
Every filter change on a suspended unit happens on a lift or a platform. At 170 to 270 lbs these units go up easily, but nothing about being light makes them easier to service once they are up there.
Plan the access before the unit is hung. A collector that is inconvenient to service gets serviced late, and on a bag unit late means the airflow is already down before anyone notices the room got hazy again.
Placement is half the performance. Ambient collection is a room design problem, not a box selection problem. Mounting height, how many units, where the intake faces and which way the clean air throws all decide whether you turn the air over evenly or leave a dead corner. We go through your floor with you and lay that out before anything gets ordered, because a correctly sized collector hung in the wrong place still reads as a bad machine.
Combustible dust
DustHog publishes no combustible dust rating for the D Series
DustHog publishes no combustible dust rating for the D Series in either direction, so we are not going to claim one on their behalf. If your dust tests combustible, your collector choice follows your dust hazard analysis (DHA), and you hear that from us on a quote rather than after an order.
NFPA 660 took effect January 1, 2026 and consolidated NFPA 61, 484, 652, 654, 655, and 664. NFPA 68 for venting and NFPA 69 for explosion prevention remain separate referenced standards. Your dust hazard analysis has to be reviewed at least every five years and whenever the process changes.
The part shops underestimate is how many ordinary materials test combustible. Wood, most grains and sugars, many plastics, aluminum, magnesium, titanium and zirconium all sit inside that scope, and published KSt and Pmax values screen for hazard rather than design for it. Design requires lab testing your actual dust, because particle size and moisture move the numbers.
Aluminum, magnesium, titanium and zirconium go to wet collection under NFPA 660’s stated preference. You get design documentation you can take to your own engineers. For your DHA, go straight to DHA Report Group and request the intake form. The DHA itself is completed by you or by a qualified third party. We do not author it and we do not stamp drawings.
What it is built for
Rooms with a haze problem and a modest budget
DustHog’s own application fields read dust, fume, mist and smoke, on an ambient media collector, aimed at removing smoke, dust and other pollutants from a facility. DustHog frames it against OSHA employee health and safety, and it is honest about the scale: simple and economical.
Where that lands on real floors is consistent. A shop that has lived with a light haze for years and finally wants it gone. A second bay that needs coverage but does not justify a cartridge system. A room where the complaint is odor and a carbon afterfilter is the whole answer. A building with no three phase where a cartridge collector is not on the table.
It shows up most often in welding and metal fabrication and in trade and vocational schools, and it sits alongside the rest of the ambient line rather than against it. The SCA is the cartridge answer to the same problem when the dust load justifies it.
Fit check
When the D Series is not right for you
Your dust is combustible
This is the first question, not the last. DustHog publishes no combustible dust rating for the D Series, so your collector choice follows your dust hazard analysis (DHA). Wood, grain, sugar, many plastics and reactive metals all commonly test combustible. See combustible dust collectors.
The dust load is heavy
Bags on a dirty process become a filter bill and a ladder schedule. If the room genuinely loads a filter, a pulse cleaned cartridge unit like the SCA costs more up front and less to own. We will run both numbers rather than sell the cheaper sticker.
You can get a hood on the work
Source capture beats ambient collection whenever a hood can reach the process, on both the exposure number and the power bill. An extraction arm on a fixed station does more for less air than any amount of room filtration.
You are chasing a documented overexposure
Ambient collection lowers the general room concentration. It does not put capture velocity at one operator’s breathing zone. If a specific exposure number is the driver, say so early, because the answer changes shape entirely.
Oil mist, not dry dust
Machining coolant mist is a different filtration problem and a media bag unit is the wrong machine for it. That work goes to the SmogHog side of the line.
D Series questions
How much air does the D Series move?
1,350 to 3,600 CFM across thirteen orderable builds, on motors from 0.75 to 3.0 hp. The airflow bands overlap between builds, so the practical starting point is usually the power available in the building.
What is the difference between the DA, DB and DBM?
They are the three series in the D Series family. The most useful practical difference is that DustHog offers the HEPA 99.97 percent and carbon afterfilters on the DB and DBM. DustHog publishes the builds by part number without mapping each to a series in the public catalog, so we confirm that with the factory when we quote.
Can it run on single phase power?
Yes. Five of the thirteen builds run single phase at 115V, 230V, or either. That is unusual in ambient collection and it is often the reason this family is the right answer for a bay with no three phase.
What filters does it take?
Media bags and box filters, with MERV 11 or MERV 15 main filter efficiency, and a HEPA 99.97 percent or carbon afterfilter available on the DB and DBM. Filters are selected and ordered alongside the unit, because the right efficiency depends on your dust rather than on the spec sheet.
How is it different from the SCA?
Both are ceiling mounted ambient collectors. The SCA filters on pulse cleaned ProTura cartridges at 2,500 CFM and needs compressed air. The D Series filters on media bags and box filters, needs no compressed air, and covers 1,350 to 3,600 CFM. The D Series costs less to buy and more to feed in filters; on a dirty process that flips.
Does it need compressed air?
DustHog publishes no compressed air requirement for the D Series. It is a media bag and box filter unit rather than a pulse cleaned one, and that is a large part of what makes the install simple.
What does a carbon afterfilter do?
It handles odor. It does nothing for a visible haze, and particulate filters do nothing for a smell. If the complaint is a smell, carbon on a DB or DBM is the right tool, and it is worth being clear about which complaint you are solving before the order.
How heavy is it and where does it mount?
170, 183 or 270 lbs depending on the series, suspended above the plant floor. DustHog publishes the family at 60.375 to 70 in. deep, 24 to 24.5 in. wide and 24 to 26.25 in. high. The structural check on your roof or hangers still comes before the order.
Tell us the room, the dust, and what is at the wall
Those three answers decide how many units it takes, which build fits your power, what filter efficiency belongs in them, and whether a bag unit or a cartridge unit is the cheaper machine to own. You get back a full part number and a firm price.
Not sure whether your dust is combustible? Book a free system review, or start with the NFPA 660 checklist.