Have you’ already dug a bit into wfd parameters on this site, and are trying to understand why something is happening or are you trying to find some basic parameters to get going?
What do you mean your distillate looks like terpenes? Disty is pretty thin when is hot, and clarity/color depends on how good the cut was. Your vac levels are decent.
Maybe you aren’t running the wiper high enough or main evaporator temp high enough, or feeding too fast… Try upping by 10% each of those parameters separately for 30 min and check output rates. If you have round bottoms as receiving flask try closing the valve to them and let the residue and dist pile up in the arm to see rate since it’s hard to judge from the round flasks
the viscosity should change.
distillate is more viscous than crude.
terpene are less viscous.
so to say your product is “very viscous” when you’re done is not actually compatible with “distillate looks like terps”.
I suspect you’ve got viscosity backwards.
honey is viscous…water is NOT
edit: see Hard distillate vs soft distillate - #46 by anon56994712
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