Need Help Designing a Condenser

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Hi Everyone,

I'm building a 30 gallon hobby still, which I'm running pretty hard until I settle on a Arak recipe.

I designed the boiler and head which were fairly easy, but I'm having trouble designing the condenser.

I was thinking of building a 10 gallon condenser with 1/2" copper tube worm inside, but space is an issue, as this is in my basement, so I'd like to go with a shotgun condenser, but I have several questions.

I'm building a pot still, similar to a traditional moonshine still, but I've only ever seen shotguns on column stills is there a reason for that?

If I were to build a shotgun still, how many tubes should I put in it, and what diameter?

I know you're going to say its related to BTUs not boiler size, but I don't know the BTU's. I'm using a homemade double ring gas burner & don't know the output.

If I do go with the traditional worm condenser is 1/2" inner diameter tubing ok for this size still and how many feet of tubing would suffice?

At this size should I consider 3/4" tubing?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Nader