MrDisco

Amazing, thanks Highlander, it's really hard to get help with sizing like this, because of the amount of variables, the boiler is an odd size for what I would want but when like give you lemons you make lemonade i guess Thanks for taking the time to help me out.

Thanks highlander, I think I'm going to end up with a 4" column at that rate... I find myself in a lucky but strange position where I've been running a small 3" column packed with SPP sat on a 30 Gallon boiler, I also have a potstill head for the same boiler. it is heated directly with a regulated 5KW element and lady luck has landed a 60 Gallon Boiler with capacity for 3 direct elements in my lap and I'm trying to work out what to do with it. I want to put a plated column on it and because of the size of the boiler I want a big column so that I run in a sensible amount of time. I was pretty sure that the energy available to me would be the limiting factor. I'm thinking because of the power limitation I'm going to end up with a 4" plated column and given that then it may be a long day getting a run done because of the size of boiler. Any suggestions or advice as to how best utilise lady lucks gift would be greatly appreciated!

Hi, This is a tricky one to ask and a understand it's a tricky one to answer but I'm trying to size a column for the energy I have available to run. I'm looking at a 6" column with 4 plates and I'm wondering if anyone with real life experience of this setup can tell me how many KW they run their rig on. I have 14KW available for heat-up and Ideally, after heat-up I want to be able to run at a reasonable pace using no more than 7KW. Does anyone run with similar parameters and how do they find doing so ?