by MartinCash » Wed Jul 22, 2020 12:25 pm
Once you have a feel for how things run, you should only be concerned about not puking on your stripping runs in terms of how fast to run. You can really run things as fast as your condenser will handle, while avoiding a puke.
I say once you have a feel for how things run because I personally found it helpful to play around a fair bit while doing striping runs when I was starting out. Changing power input, tasting at every stage of the run when running at different speeds, noting down the output in L/hr at different power settings, etc. This is because you'll be doing stripping runs more often than spirit runs, and in stripping runs you collect everything and there's next-to-zero chance of screwing up (no cuts). Once you get to your spirit run you'll have a better idea of how your still responds when you do something, and also you have a higher chance of stuffing up if you make a mistake in your spirit run, such as too much smearing from excessive speed.
Also every still I've run has seemed to have a speed that it likes to work at naturally.