StillSmart

Hi MARBAKER, Jahtubs is bang on the money. You will need to run the cooling to the Liebig condenser, not only that, if your running without power control, you will need several liters cooling a minute to knock the vapor down. If you\'re on metered water this may be a problem for you. BTW there is no need to pull the packing out, I\'ve found very little difference - that said my column is insulated which may affect things.

My water is free but it\'s on full flow when doing a strip and is really wasteful unless your using a recirculation tank. The take off distillate will still be quite hot on a strip as the T500 Liebig isn\'t up to much on such high throughout, I swapped out the product hose for copper tube, the plastic tube may become really soft and cause you issues with hot distillate.
If your not taking about stripping, and wanting to run as a pot, you will require power control to do it properly. If you just want to strip, you can do without power control as long as you have a high flow cooling supply.
A few things to consider, but I\'m sold on doing 3-4 strips and then a single spirit run with the stripped wash. Much better use of power and your time.

thanks for the reply jahtubs and capt-cudellez much appreciated will have to read up on it a bit more.on the threads you gave thanks again marbaker

I gave up on the TPW.
It turned the saddles in the T500's colum a funky black with a real bad small.

I've only recently started down the TPW path and have found that (as long as you are prepared to wait a while/few days longer for it to ferment out) I get a better quality, finer smelling and similar ABV neutral to using Turbos at around $8-10AUD per wash rather than, say, $30AUD using Turbos and associated LHBS product. Using AidanMacs double distill 'recipe' my finished product makes a MUCH better base for whiskey/vodka/tequila flavour and (apparently) its comaprative to Turbo-derived sugar wash for Liqueurs. So...its a 'no going back' no brainer for me.