St Plugger wrote:Thanks for the replies. So to get this straight, a good idea would be to have extra height from the sight glass to the reflux condenser? The current piece is 30cm. A further 70cm in height is possible [just] but a further 60cm would be preferable. I'm using copper in that 30cm section, and in the section above the condenser. Hadn't thought of insulating that part of the column, an easy fix. As for water, it's pumped from and returned to a 1000L IBC with a submersible pump.
As for the spirit, I just take that and filter it through a homemade carbon filter!
yep, add a 600mm column for 900mm + sight glass
insulate the 600mm+300mm section
remove the copper from after the RC and use it before the rc.
use S/S scrubbies (or more copper mesh) to fill the rest of the 900mm section.
play around with the RC water v power controller until you get a good output (1.2-1.5l/hour for a 2")
then you won't need to filter.