Triple distilled Rum still going cloudy

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Hogo
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Triple distilled Rum still going cloudy

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Hi All,
Just going to throw this out there into the cosmos of distilling (and fermenting)...

The problem is the spirit run is turning cloudy when diluted past 45%...
The first pass was a fast pot still strip run.
Then all four batches together for a spirit run with five plates.
Ran reflux for 30mins, took fore shots off and compressed the heads, after heads were gone turned off the reflux and ran the column in 'pot mode' until the very start of tails when reflux was started again...
Aroma and flavour were great, but diluting down past 45% made the spirit cloudy.

Ran for a third time in pot mode taking heads cuts and tails cuts and STILL went cloudy when diluting past 45%. It still retains aroma and flavour...
Possible reasons:
Not completely clearing the yeast before distilling?
Retained to many heads?
Retained too many tails?
Diluted with carbon filtered water? not distilled.
Diluting too quickly? over a day or two.

Advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

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