self filling inline thumper design

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Re: self filling inline thumper design

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Just finishing a spirit run of 3 strip runs watered down with 4th gen ujssm. Collected 3gallons give or take a little. Ditched a pint as fores and heads right of the start. Looks like maybe 2 quarts head and not sure on tails yet. I will proof and blend in a couple days when I don't have a head cold. Gonna age on oak till I have to drink it. I have a little supply built up. Once plate was loaded turned of reflux and ran as an inline thumper. Plate is starting to empty so its just about done. Plate empties on its own at the start of the tails. :clap: Did the run on 3000 watts. Other than taking longer to heat up, which I think is good, it seems to be almost ideal rate. Havnt got the parts to build a controller yet. If I'm happy with the product would I need a controller?
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jedneck wrote: If I'm happy with the product would I need a controller?
I don't think so. Certainly not a requisite any way.
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Running a chocolate cereal wash rite now. She seems to like producing at a rate of an ounce a minute at a steady 160 proof. And has good flavour. I have been charging thumper with 2 quarts of wash. Next run I'm gonna use reflux to charge the thump and see what happens. This shit is fun. The more I read the more I have those ahh moments.
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That turned out damn nice Jed. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks hillbilly. Funny thing is I have it sitting on the shelf rite now. I enjoy my pot and thumper more.
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Made a parrot finally and finally got an alcoholometer. Did some mod to the flute. Changed the downcomers to 1/2 inch and installed my triple wall Liebig instead of the 1 inch over 1/2 to make it more compact. Doing a sac run on the five gallon boiler charged with 3 gallons of 35% trash from another cleaning run. Running 2000 watt element. Its running at a steady 172 proof with how its set now. It is running about 20 proof higher than my old potstill did with the same charge. I think that I will keep running it on the 5 gallon boiler that I use as a thumper on a keg boiler. Gotta start a sugar head to use for another sac run to see what it will do on a single run. Over all I think it was worth it. Main goal is to get my all grain mashes to have a keeper cut of 55% on a single run.
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If one of the mods see this can this get moved to the column build section. I think that it will fit better there. Thanks.
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Turned reflux off add it dropped to 160 proof and dumped the plate. Plate emptied add dropped to 130 proof. Went to full rflux and reloaded plate. Proof went back to 160 proof. There is a pretty good lag it readings. I used 1 inch for the body of the parrot and 1/2 for the feed.
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Thanks rock.
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Finally got a low abv mash ran. It was a single wheat malt at about 5%. Heads started out at 72%. Dropped to 65% for hearts. Started dropping again at tails shut of reflux and run till 10%. Out of a 4 gallon charge kept 600 ml at 55%. Have two 7% sugar heads to run then I'm gonna run it on the keg and thumper. Five gallon boiler is barely big enuf to run this head. Gonna start a ujssm with the backset from a single malt wheat.
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Running a 8% sugar wash rite now. Getting 84% at a liter every 40 min( collecting 100 ml at a time, it only a 5 gallon boiler). Not to bad for a single perf plate. That's the best I got so far. Next run will be on the keg for a boiler and the thumper. Any ideas what numbers to expect on a wash that is 7%?
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Ran a first gen ujssm then a week later ran second gen. Both run started in the high 80%. Last one almost hit 90 for heads. Hearts are in the mid 70's. Runs are on a 3000 watt element no controller, its on the to do list. I was afraid that at these proofs it would be lite on flavour. WRONG , this thing is a flavour machine.
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Stripping flavor is not as easy as one often reads.

Lots of whiskey is made by stripping then run through a 4 plated system as an example.
Also stripped with a plated system then pot stilled for the spirit run.
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