u/Realistic_Salad_5110

Looking to purchase my first column still in a few months and researching options. I’m thinking of something like the still spirits or digiboil when I noticed that the digiboil is the same unit as the brewzilla. Looking further into this the bewzilla gen4 has a PID and can be connected to remote temperature probes.

Theoretically I am assuming that I could run this boiler in PID mode and tell it to maintain a constant temperature on the remote probe, which I insert into the top of the still, for relatively hands off distilling.

I am a complete noob at distilling despite having a lot of experience brewing so no problem in you ripping me a new one if this is completely flawed methodology.

Hi,

Apologies if this has been asked before. I ordered a cheap 750w water distiller similar to the airstill. I plan to run it with an SCR to control the power down. Having looked at the tear down videos it seems the fan is powered direct from the heating element at 240v so if I step down power to the heater it will also reduce power to the lid.

My question is, do people power the lid separately to get the full fan all the time or just power the fan off the base as intended but with the reduced voltage?

Thanks