RC Plumbing Configuration

[Darwin award]

:think: Is your RC upsidedown...or have I been doing it wrong? :?

[Rockybrewa]

:think: Is your RC upsidedown...or have I been doing it wrong? :?

i just mocked everything up and put the gate valve on the outlet side of the condenser :shifty: . I'm used to plumbing up my product condenser

[Zak Griffin]

You want water in at the bottom of a shotgun RC :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Rockybrewa]

Man, I thought so. I seriously confused my self last night. Must of been all those IPA's and ciders before bed. I never thought about it too much

[Doubleuj]

You want water in at the bottom of a shotgun RC :handgestures-thumbupleft:

:doh: really? I thought all condensers had to run with the water flow in the opposite direction to the vapour in order to be most efficient?

[Zak Griffin]

Except bubbler RC's. if you run the water in at the top, the condenser will always be empty and therefore not working.

[Doubleuj]

Ok... seems I've got some re plumbing to do :angry-banghead:

[Zak Griffin]

If it's working for you, don't panic... but if you've only got a trickle of water going through your RC, the RC will be emptying as quick as it fills.

[scythe]

Yeah that would be why your RC is not knocking it all back, even when on flat out it will be draining out prety fast.

Where if you fill it from the lower fitting it has to fill up the RC to the level of the top fitting before it will return back.

Maybe the confusion comes from opposing vapour flow, which makes sense with a PC but not an RC.

[Darwin award]

Glad i asked!

Yeah that would be why your RC is not knocking it all back, even when on flat out it will be draining out prety fast.

Where if you fill it from the lower fitting it has to fill up the RC to the level of the top fitting before it will return back.

Maybe the confusion comes from opposing vapour flow, which makes sense with a PC but not an RC.

:laughing-rolling: I got round that by looping my outline above the inlet of the RC....fixated on the whole different flow directions thing...I guess the RC is so stubby it doesn't really matter that much.