Yeah I’m trying to figure out how I can make a re circulation system with hot water without having a jacketed base. So I am using two 5 gallon buckets. 1 bucket is being used to heat the water with a bucket heater of some sort, and a submersible pump to run the hot water from there to the 2nd bucket which has my collection base in it for recovery. What I’m trying to figure out is how I can circulate back the cold water to the first bucket so it can be re heated. So it’s continuous and I’m not having to repeatedly fill 5 gallon buckets with hot water to recover.
Cut a hole in the 2nd bucket like 4 inches below top. Insert barb. Plug tubing in. Feed tubing to bucket with heater. Gravity is awesome.
Ok so we are on the same page.
Get a pump like i posted eariler (not that exact pump its worthless)
And follow what i said
Whatever pump you get try to get one in the same or as close to the same gph as your pump dumping hot water. Or you will be playing lets juggle the pumps the entire run.
Should just get a jacket for warm water my 2 ¢
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I second this. Is there any reason why you can’t just get a bigger bucket, or bin?
Waaay easier.
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https://www.beveragefactory.com/draftbeer/pumps/kegjackets/r4219.shtml
A keg tub should work just fine for you.
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I just bought that to keep my base chilled during extraction. I’ll see how well it works this month.
Bigger bucket for what? I don’t have a jacketed base at the moment, so I need to heat water in one bucket, circulate it to the next bucket that has my collection base in it, then re-circulate it back to the first bucket to get re-heated and and so on.
Sorry just a little confused to what your saying!
Good call, I will look for 2 pumps w/ the same GPH so I don’t have one pumping more than the other. I’ll let you know how it all works out when I get my parts.
thanks 'er body!
Put your collection vessel in the big tub, put sous vide in big tub to heat collection vessel.
It’s okay to put a Sous vide directly in the same bucket with my collection full of solvent when I’m recovering?
I do it all the time, I’ve seen plenty of others post pics of the same setup as well.
I highly doubt it’s c1d1, I know it’s not, but it’s done a lot.
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I run a sous vide on one side of 50gal long ice chest. Its not the safest route but it’s on one side and collection pot on the other side
To be safer you could run the sous vide in a 5gal bucket then pump that water into ur cooler. Ull wanna return the water to the 5gal heating bucket
But I’m caveman style in shed . I put the collection pot on one side the 50gal long cooler and sous vide is on the other side about 2ft away…this is my heating station
Technically ur sous vide should have potted electronics, that way if u accidentally dropped it into the water it wouldn’t ruin it
My cooling station is 10 gal round ice chest that I keep denatured alcohol in it at all times. Just add more denatured alcohol to it occasionally. Dry ice to cool it when ready. Also once u get about 40lbs dry ice dissolved into about 4gal denatured alcohol that shit will stay subzero for queit some time
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Yeah, I think Im going to get two pumps and a sous vide. One bucket to heat the water, one pump to move the hot water to the other bucket that has my collection in it, then another pump to circulate the cold water back. And true, I’ve noticed how much longer your dry ice can last if you dissolve it down into ISO or some sort of alcohol.
Caveman setups are best haha
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Yeah I have my sous vide in the Same cooler…its one those long fish coolers though. Its works like freaking champ. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
If there’s a c1d1 version lol get it
Just trying to get as far away as possible what I do. And plug ins are electrical taped together, that’s probably more serious. And its plugged in at a other room. I probably need to ground my rig better. I’m working on concrete though.
But the sous vide itself designed to work around water. idk about fumes though
You could use a diaphragm pump and run it external instead of submersible and install ebb and flow fittings or a standard barb and tubing on the bucket and incorporate a shut off tee in the line to direct flow. That should give you the option to transfer or recirculate using the same pump.
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Ah this is a good idea, thanks. Would save on having two pumps for sure
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Why are you chilling your base?