Cheers Astro.
My problem was obviously not enough water flow/pressure from the garden hose. As soon as I turned it up, no problem, even switch on the other element and it held full reflux without another drip. Very happy. It’s so satisfying to see all the hours of work put into her come to fruition. It’s also mesmerising sitting there watching the plates load the the bubbles running through the caps.
Then learning about the water control through the condensers was very interesting. With the RC shut off and both elements cranking I collected a 400ml jar in a bit over 5 min but my home made funnel at the end of the PC struggled with that rate as it doesn’t have a breather. But I needed to put a piece of copper wire on the RC needle valve and colour in every 5th rib so I had a reference for controlling the water flow. I’ve got great control of output from no output, drop per second, drop drop per second, drip drop dribble, dribble to full on flow, and everything in between. I think changes take between 1 and 2 minutes from adjusting the needle valve to output at the PC. So happy.
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Well Sac run finished with 5.2L of product collected in 13 big jars. I think I need more jars and not fill so much to enable better cuts. Good experience and start of good practice.
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Put product from jar 3 into a test beaker for alchometer for a reading of 92%, jar 8 was 90% and jar 12 was 61%, so it looks like she’s a keeper. I’ll donate all this product to the cleaning fluid drum i’ve clearly marked as poison. And it’s on the top shelf so unless your 6’8” like me, you’ll need a ladder.
Just need to tidy up the coolant lines & get rid of the plastic irrigation fittings from the PC. 50L of TPW went down while the run was going. So that’s next weekend.
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