Hi All
Hoping to get some thoughts on what might of caused some issues in my last run.
Went to run around 20 litres stripped Teddy's FFV topped up to around 40 litres with water.
Things were odd straight up, I had issues maintaining a slow drip for the fores, it was either nothing or gushing out. I managed to get it to a point where I slowly bled off fores and heads with some ultra fine RC adjustment (I'm talking millimetre adjustments of the gate valve), and I thought everything should be fine. Went to adjust the output to around 2 litres an hour when I was in hearts, but struggled to get it above 1 - 1.5 litres an hour to point the RC gate valve was completely closed and that was all I could get output wise.
So I'm like hmmm, open the value up figuring I've gone heavy handed and output basically stopped. Close it completely, output was a pretty steady 1.5 litres an hour. And I finished the run like that. Took a long time.
So I'm trying to figure out what would have allowed me to run at that speed with the RC completely shut off.
Now, I have found my couple runs have taken a lot longer, for example my stripping run of said FFV (close to 100 litres) took 10+ hours and I shut it down at 30% because I cbf waiting any longer.
I don't have dedicated circuits for my still just yet so I'm only running 1 x 2400 and put it down to that.
I'm starting to wonder if the element might be buggered? It's only got a handful of runs on it, but I'm guessing that doesn't really mean anything. It's about the only reason I can think of at this point.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
Cheers
Tim