Never seen a screen display E for a positive value… Pretty sure it’s just digits limitation. There isn’t a space on the screen for a - sign.
Hmm possibly! But with air vacuum and all idk!?
Even an air vacuum should get better than 260 torr… Which is what the way you’re reading it says… I mean do we know it’s actually an air vacuum? Might be a mistake by OP because he is clearly inexperienced.
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“translation” or perhaps better “comparison”, requires units for both.
1E^7 could be 1 x 10-7meters Hg or mm Hg or um Hg. it is most likely torr == mm Hg.
1 x 10-7 torr == 1x 10-4 um == 0.0001microns(Hg)
OP’s vac level is 2.6x 10-2 Pa == 0.026 Pascals == 0.2um which should actually suffice (so I may have screwed up the math…or missed that there was no “-” sign)
@Shepard9 show us this “air vacuum” of which you speak. I know of no air powered vacuum source that will pull down that far.
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units are pascals.
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Ah i see that now. Well.again I say, if he raises temp to 160, he will get distillation going at a reasonable rate. Of course there are many things to tune afterwards but that will.at least confirm the thing works.
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if that’s 260Pa aka 1950microns (which seems possible with an “air-vac”), then the nomograph I pointed to upthread would suggest 240ish C for a boiling point (which is why you should go check it out @Shepard9 )
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What does it say when you switch to torr?
Run at 68c internal, 168c jacket, lowest possible temp on cold trap and make sure you feed it continuously/
Letting these run for too long without distilling and evaporating oil will throw the heating systems out of whack
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Check the distillation section …maybe it will help
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