Reduce to fast?

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Madmanmadrid
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Reduce to fast?

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So noob question. Can you reduce a column to quickly? Example keg boiler 2in column 1ft long reduced to 1in line to thumper 1in out of thumper to condenser?
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you generally want the largest vapor path you can have all the way to the condenser. but the 2 in riser thats 1ft long then to 1 inch will work fine even if its not ideal.

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peep that thread
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Thank that's exactly what I was looking for. I have a hard time finding info like this. I guess I dont know the keywords to look for haha
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Happy I could help. The product of that thread is the keg and thumper linked in my sig
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