I can heat the mantle to red hot. What temp will the water in there be as it boils at atmosphere?
Not about boiling water…but it IS about BOILING.
This is the part you need to wrap your head around. Shows the boiling point at various vac levels…
Can you explain how that is relevant?
Can you use it to guesstimate the upper bound on your boiling flask temp if your vac gauge was correct?
Did you answer any of my questions?!?
Eg:Where are your temp probe(s)?
How do you know the temp in your flask?
Did you watch the lecture on deltaT
What temp SHOULD water boil?
How could use that to confirm or deny that your mantle agrees with the rest of us on that subject?
Doing so will ALSO demonstrate how the mantle temp and the boiling flask differ.
Set the mantle temp to 100C, and see how long it takes to boil.
Set it to 200C and do the same test.
Unless you truly understand that, I suggest you try it, so that you do understand it.
Because distillation is about boiling THEN about condensation. you didn’t get your cannabinoids hot enough to boil, and you need to understand why (or not, you could just turn the heat up and it will work…)