You need to vent some pressure out of your recovery tank and make sure your coil is in a slurry not just dry ice…you don’t need to chill your recovery tank but it will help. As long as the pressure is higher in your collection vs your recovery tank you should be good to go.
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Sounds like dry ice recovery tank, slurry for coil and pressure gauge on vapor port for recovery tank is a good method… that way I can watch the difference in pressures between collection chamber and recovery tank. I was also told as long as the recovery tank is on dry ice and well below zero that I can pull a vac on it???
What’s your best recovery time for passive recovery?
no I’m just new to the extraction game trying to gain knowledge
I believe managed 100lb in 120min with my pumps IN THE WAY a couple of days ago.
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yes pull a vac on the recovery if you have a safe pump and place to vent it. Theres still gas in it. I dunno how much it helps, temps do enough.
You don’t need any dry ice for your tank. The coil will condenser the hot vapor into liquid and the positive pressure will push the liquid out of the coil into your recovery tank which you have pre vacuumed down. The butane liquid enters the recovery tank extremely cold and after the first couple lbs into the tank it will cool its self down and even maintain it’s own vaccume but can build up later on in the run and will need to be burped threw a vapor port on your recovery tank. With a 1000w heater set at 110 on my collection I can evaporate and condense at a rate of 1lbs a min, at the end of 15lbs of solvent recovered it says 96 degrees. It tanks quickly even with a 1000w bucket heater.
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right place. now spend some more time reading.
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Nope I bought the trs 21 just before learning about future. so passive is a thing of the past for now.
Cool story
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as opposed to the (maybe 100W) “fish tank heater” OP is using…
how far away from your pipe bomb is that 1000W ignition source?
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Lol it’s in the next room over. I have a jacketed collection. It’s a Cooler with a small Mag drive pump, 1000w bucket heater on a inkbird controller. It’s a lot better then people using a sous vide in a bucket with there collection pot.
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Awesome!!
we’ve had tell of it in the bucket with the pipe bomb…
agreed!!
I’ve got pictures of it after I put a real thermostat on it around here somewhere…the OEM one had way too much hysteresis.
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Yeah that’s bad. The really bad part is the inkbird controller. It has a relay inside that the contact point could cause ignition for sure. I found 4kw on demand style hot water heater on Amazon that will work on 220v with only 20amps. Only 160 bucks. Has a temp controller build in too. That would be my next upgrade. But I actually like the way it tanks on the end. I feel like it’s better for terp preservation when the solvent ratio in lower towards the end.
Would this be a decent way of heating water from a distance via pex pipe??? Also does having a jacketed collection chamber speed up recovery time?
You should be able to recover that in like 10 mins. Post some pics of your setup and tell a little more about how you run it; That should help get better tips on what to do
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3kw is probably overkill for 6lb of solvent, but at that price…
how many watts is your fish tank heater?
which also has pictures claimed above…
edit: did I mention; READ 