Ok so finally had a play with my new toy hear are some details of my first two proper strip runs of some mac'rum two 25l ferments...
53mins from switch on till foreshots running out
Ditched first 400mls out of still as the fores
collected down to 20%
after fores first 500mls took 7mins
in 1 hour I collected 3.5l low wines.
ended up with 5l in just over two hours from cold
collection details in lots of 500mls:
1:65%abv
2:60% abv
3:55% abv
4:50%
5:49% abv
6:40% abv
7: 35% abv
8:30% abv
9:25% abv was last one was on 20% after this lot of 500mls.
lots one through four were as I expected, than it puked, so lots 5-9 looked like apple juice and smelled like beer. Lucky im double distilling and this should rectify in round two. Second lot was very similar except I only had a very mild puke which only effected lots 8-9. Going to have to either run in smaller amounts or sort out some sort of defoamer. See here for a pic
http://aussiedistiller.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8534 . Really dont want the hassle of having to split the two 30l fermenters into 3 runs and I also really need to get a couple of pumps to move liquid around. But all in all happy with my build and will get to the spirit run asap.