The stills I have experience with are Pot Stills, LM Boka and Plated columns....I try not to comment on things I have no personal experience of.
Ive never had a pot still do that and that is why I'm interested to know whats happening here.
As I said earlier Ive seen many references to this drip, drip, squirt thing , but only in relatively recent times.
Andrew_90 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 9:55 pm
it is not a squirt, it can be better described as a drip drip then short continuous stream. More accurately dot dot dash in morse code terms
Pretty much the same thing and I understand what you mean because sometimes when I'm very slowly milking fores off with my plated column it will do a similar thing if I apply to much heat to the boiler. However that's a different story.
Andrew_90 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 9:55 pm
If one considers it there has to be a transition from a broken flow to a full stream.
The transition that Ive seen from drips to a full stream on a pot still, is still very smooth, its not spasmodic. Its very slow drips, medium speed drips , faster drips, really fast drips, broken stream with no drips then an extremely thin stream......then bigger....all of that depending on power input to the boiler at any given time.
In short a pot still that is not running at a constant and steady speed is nor working to its optimum potential from my experience.....something funny is a foot.
What sort of condenser are you running?