Well Sunday afternoon update . I tryed EVERTHING over 2 days todraw off close to syrup. No luck.! .
I boiled 120 gallons Friday and sweetened the pan .
I started will the concentrate this morning and boiled 140 gallons today .
I had the pan and firebox rocking at a rate of about 21 gallons a hour and a stack temp constant 900 to 1000 degrees.
I ended up over 2 days boiling 260 gallons . I had to shut down cause i was outta sap. I did a total clean out of the pan and float box and ended up with 45 liters of super sweet concentrate.
I'm gonna have to finish on the propane for several hours I figure
I guess this will have to do but kinda pissy that I spent good money on a hybrid pan that's suppose to make near syrup but all I'm doing with it is batch boiling at a huge rate with the drop flue section. Happy about the boil rate on average over 2 days from start up to complete shutdown time included
I managed about 19.5 gallons a hour.
If my next boil doesn't produce the results I'm looking for I'm gonna take the pan and have piping and a valve welded in so that it's a drop flue finishing pan all 1 that I can control when to allow the heavy SAP to enter the finishing compartment.