Hi Everyone
So Im running a Pure distilling reflux still and had a few questions after running my first TPW.
So after reading the forum and directions on how to run a T500 properly (i figure they are same/same) I started the water flow as soon as I switched on the boiler. It took a while to heat up and start dripping the forsehots, with the first drips at 79Degs. (According to the T500 thread they collected first drips at 40-45 Degs) https://aussiedistiller.com.au/viewtopi ... 57&t=10483
After collecting the fores i turned the tap to the fast position and started to collect the heads.
I left it like this for 6 hours till the temp spiked 2 more degrees and I turned it to the slow position where the temp didn't stabilise again so I turned the boiler off.
Doing cuts as I went I only ended up with 2.75 litres in Alcohol in total @93%
My questions are this:-
What went wrong?
In my previous runs Ive collected nearly 5 Litres using turbo washes and the still operated as described, here it didn't spike a second time and I only gathered 2.75 litres...
Im thinking I wont turn on the water next time till the still reaches temp as described in the original instructions and see how that was goes.
Any tips feed back would be great!
Cheers Coastie