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first spirit run with new boka also first run with new recirc water system. few observations straight up. up for peoples suggestions as always.
The boka performed flawlessly on tap water during stripping runs of TPW @ full power (3600w)
spirit run on recirc tank I've had a bit of vapour reaching past the condensor @full power knocked it back to about 3200w and it's sitting happily as far as I can see with my mirror. available flow rate from pump is calculated and observed well aove anything I could acheive out of my mains tap so it's not flow related. tested tap water temp today and it was on par with the recirc tank so water supply itself is neither here nor there, it is what it is, although I do know my recirc will continue to rise were tap wouldn't. the double wound coil (look for pics up further) is hardly flawed (kinks etc). it was about 190mm long and I've packed it loosly with ss scrubers until I get some copper 1's. I probably have another 10-20mm at most between coil and top plate, should I stretch out the coil as it is fairly compacted still so I could contact vapour earlier? The top is still open I wondered if I did use a cap with a hole in it what is the % that would actually condense on the underside of the cap compared to escape - not a 100% fix solution but maybe a step towards it. This is all aimed at being able to throw full heat at it.
I'm achieving 93.8% and there about's while i'm still playing with off take flow rates experimenting a bit, I could probably pack the coloumn a bit tighter I think in future too.