LikkerSheWillLoveIt wrote:Thanks Howard. That and what RC said is making me think it’s the copper saddles. I’ll order mesh from FSD
I know I was over powered and forcing more vapor up than condensed liquid was coming down.
LikkerSheWillLoveIt wrote:Out of 6x25 litre washes, I will say I expected more, considering at 10% abv of each wash “theoretically” there should be 15 litres of extractable booze. I got 6. I know perfect world, best case scenario, planets aligning. I’m not saying I’m disappointed, I’m saying I #%?!ed it up. I set up tired and injured and did the run on 4 hours sleep, which leads to stupid mistakes.
The 3 things I narrowed down , too much power, over packed with scrubbers, copper “saddles” at the bottom causing restriction. Too much power I sorted that, too much packing (I shut down and removed some). Copper saddles, removed them too. Maybe the boiler was over full, I removed 10 litres of low wines from the boiler via the drain during the shut down). I still had 20 odd litres in the boiler when I finished.
BSC_Kilby wrote:correct me if I'm wrong here.
20L of low wines @ 30% give you 6L of absolute alcohol in the charge, right?
BSC_Kilby wrote:correct me if I'm wrong here.
20L of low wines @ 30% give you 6L of absolute alcohol in the charge, right?
I’m doing a spirit run on 3 stripped TPW’s in my inverted cone Boka. First time with stripped wash and I was running at full noise and I flooded my column. This was during the reflux stage, I had not taken off any product. The condenser was knocking everything down, but too much vapour going up, to ...
Hey folks. I’m trying to find the source of what I did wrong yesterday. I ended up with about 6L of of distillate around 92% out of a 150L TPW run that had been stripped. I removed 10L from the boiler, so I have those low wines for the next run. I set up on Friday arvo/evening, I set the alarm for 4...
Big rig, condenser was still knocking everything down. No vapour went out the top.
Too much power I sorted that, too much packing (I shut down and removed some). Copper saddles, removed them too. Maybe the boiler was over full, I removed 10 litres of low wines from the boiler via the drain during the shut down). I still had 20 odd litres in the boiler when I finished.
LikkerSheWillLoveIt wrote:2 questions:
1. What sort of head space do I need to leave in the boiler, for a spirit run after stripping and diluting to <40% ?
2. What wattage should I be throwing at the boiler, using on a 2” Boka for a spirit run? I do run LPG to help with heating, on this run I DID NOT use it as it was 3:00am and I wasn’t in a hurry. I was only using my 2200w electric element.
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