What we are presenting should have been designed and shared many years ago by the electrical engineering industry and/or electrical engineering students under proper guidance during their own coming of age studies.  Without this kind of open source baseline, there is nothing to give the corporations the proper complexities to strive for.  They started taking the easy fruit and forgot their purpose while everyone else was forced out of theirs.  This resets all that quickly. 

The foundational switches the industry doesn't want you to build.  Basic wired and wireless inline switches for shop convenience is remarkably absent from the market. A quick search reveals a bizarre lack of simple, heavy-duty remote controlled switches. Is this an accident, or corporate design? When a simple wireless vacuum remote costs $115, you are conditioned to accept that automated dust control is expensive. If a $25 alternative existed, you'd question everything else they sell.   You don't always need a smart vacuum that cycles automatically. Sometimes you just need to turn the shop vac on from 7 feet away without crawling under your bench. We provide the blueprints to build the missing manual tier yourself.

1) High-Voltage Dongles

A/C power switching, built right. A high-voltage dongled inline switch is the starting point. One of the few available online forces you into short cord lengths and uses an undersized enclosure crammed with heavy 14 or 12 AWG wire. The the switched connections are known to fail, and they are impossible to repair. By building your own, you size the wire gauge, the wire length the swatch box and the switch correctly.  No logic controllers required—just a heavy-duty switch, proper wire, and enclosures speced for your needs. .

2) Low-Voltage Dongles

Safer routing, cheaper wire, and your first step into hardware logic. Running thick, high-voltage wire around a shop is expensive and cumbersome. A low-voltage dongle uses a tiny 5V power supply and a solid-state or mechanical relay to do the heavy switching.  The switch wire running to your tool or other desired switch location can be thin, cheap, and entirely safe. While this requires a larger junction box for the switch, it drastically reduces the cost of the dongle itself. As a bonus, this is your "Rosetta Stone" introduction: your first glimpse at how low-voltage logic components safely control high-voltage machinery.

3) Wireless (Dongle-less) Switching

The $120 corporate switch, built for a fraction of the cost. Take the low-voltage dongle circuit, remove the long wire, and drop in a cheap RF receiver that pairs with one of many remotes available.  Shockingly, the cost will be about the same as the low voltage dongle setup, but you now have a wireless remote system. Keep a remote by the chop saw, one by the table saw, or one in your apron. You get the exact functionality of the premium corporate wireless switches, but you built it yourself for under $30, and you can repair or expand it for pennies.

MOST WOODWORKING  HOBBYISTS AND SMALL CNC OWNERS CAN  STOP RIGHT HERE.  MOST NEED NOTHING MORE.  WE PROVIDE ALL THE WIRING DIAGRAMS, BILL OF MATERIALS  ALL FOR FREE.   EVENTUALLY WE EXPECT TO ADD  BUILD KITS TO MAKE IT EASYIER TO BUY, BUILD AND TEACH TOO. 

This involves the addition of a smart and hyper-tunable upgrade to the manual switch boxes for weekend warriors and sesoned professionals alike. This very NOVEL, solderless power rail driven A/C to D/C current sensing system turns the manual inline switches in Tier 1 into smart auto sensing devices that use current changes on one device to turn on and off  vacuums and other devices as you please.  

• The "Solderless Brain": Learn how to build solderless low voltage power rails and then add numerous  key industrial electronics components to bring your brain to life.  Specify and tune your start current sensitivey and your run-on timer delays with plug and play components that cost pennies.  All analog and solid state. No programming required.  You can reliably detect low-power tools that standard commercial boxes miss and change your run on delays to anything you want or none at all. 

• Flexible Design:  You spec the wire size, you spec the relay sizes, you spec the trigger current, you spec any time delay shut offs on the back end of the cycle, you decide if you want to run both devices from a single branch circuit or two.  You decide the housing types. 

• Manual Override: You can use a remote high voltage or low voltage dongle or wireless control for immediate auto-on-off switching for maximum control. (NOTE you will need to modify the Dongles and Wireless schemes in Tier 1 for double throw switching if you want full auto-on-off control)

THIS REQUIRES YOUR TOOL AND VACUUM TO BE CONNECTED TO THE SAME SWITCH BOX. 

This involves separating the auto sensing system of Tier 2 from the switching circuit in Tier 1 and Tier 2 for decentralized, modular control for a centralized vacuum system (or comparable remote device) . We separated the tool sensor from the switch boxes to create a Smart Transmitting box that pairs with a Tier 1 wireless switch. (all using  433MHz EV1527 radios ) The smart transmitting box design takes you another level into indiustrial electronics on the cheap. 

• Intelligent Design: Watch how a smart sensing wireless brain interacts with a digital timer break out board or ATtiny microcontrollers and a wireless transmitter to simulate push button control of a heavy duty switching relay box built to your exact specficactions. .

• Scale Infinitely: Add as many Sender Boxes as you have tools you want to auto sense

• True Modularity:  If a part blows up or goes bad, just replace it for a few bucks. You'll never trash the entire assembly again. If you purchase break out boards from us to make the wiring a little easier they will come with DIP sockets to achive the same level of modularity. If a surge blows a component, simply pull it out and push a new one in. No soldering required.

THIS  ALLOWS ONE OR MANY TOOLS TO OPERATE YOUR VACUUM SWITCH AUTOMATICALLY FROM REMOTE LOCATIONS.  

Because this is an open platform, not a closed product, the ecosystem is already growing. Automated blast gates and "bin full" vacuum signals are currently in development, utilizing the exact same universal logic.