That truly is the best explanation I have heard yet! I couldn’t have put that better myself.
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I’m curious how you determine the psi in a jar without a gauge. I would honestly appreciate knowing how to get an idea of the pressure in a jar. I only use miners so I have very little experience with jars.
Do you have a method other than dry ice to achieve -100F?
I build custom refrigeration units and I have a hell of time getting past -20 with r290. Just curious in the event you also build refrigeration and have figured out how to get that low.
My most common CRC for standard practice is b80 that has been baked for a day in a vacuum oven. A lot of RH come out when I get it shipped from the Midwest. Lol.
I previously use nothing but perform 6000 due to it ability to make a great color with old material. What I run into is terpene isomerization when I get over 100g per lb of biomass. I’ve had years old flower that I was doing 10lb runs of and it took 2,000g of perform 6000 to clean it to a point of looking acceptable. The issue was that the person I was doing the work for claimed that every batch ran even with other strains had the exact same flavor and their customers were bored with it. Lowering the 6000 down to 100g per lb of bio mass and incorporating 50g of silica per lb and 50g of alumina per lb really made a difference in color and flavor according to the owner of the material.
After all of that material had been gone through I was able to use just b80 for normal newer material for the same person and others.
The point of all that disclosure is that recently when doing diamonds I have come to understand that using the perform 6000 with a oh of 2.5 has a positive effect for diamond creation. It was also explained to me that using DE, diatomaceous earth, would send the pH in the wrong direction as it is alkaline and at the end of the CRC stack. I use a 6 inch CRC so I am at the higher end with the alumina and silica. The next run I am going back to my 4 inch CRC with 25g of each alumina and silica and staying at 100 of the perform 6000 to try to determine if a smaller diameter CRC can utilize less media and produce the same product as at what point does it become a diminishing return. My assumptions are that the smaller diameter would of course cause more contact time with the same amount of media. At what point the media is essentially full and or looses or is ability to remediate is what I am going to figure out.
The main factor for waiting a long time to do this was not having enough of the exact same material to do 10 or 15 - 10lb runs with varying amount of each media and different sizes of a CRC.
I do not yet have a lot of experience in the diamond creation area. I do have a lot of experience building these machines and experimenting with media if anyone would find something I may know valuable I am happy to share publicly so all can benefit.
This tread may not be revived so I just want to thank everyone here for all the contributions. It took me a while to read all of this and it was quite interesting. Several people here were a great help in the journey to understanding how to achieve things that I have now.
Thank you all!
Thanks 
I suggest you go in circles if you want to exhaust your media: Opaline Silica Thread
it works for getting the cannabinoids out of your weed.
also works for getting the color out of your extracts…
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I will read both of these, thank you.
If you mean that the media will rob cannabinoids I understand, I simply do not know at what point that will occur.