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    well now you have more room in boiling room
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    Quote Originally Posted by Randy Brutkoski View Post
    I wouldnt know about the evaporator talking to me, because i am getting mine in october. Well thats if Lappiere gets it done by then.
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    Theron,

    Did you ever figure out what kind of gph you are going to run with that monster?? I would guess somewhere in the neighborhood of 550 gph.
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    Brandon- Im hoping its somewhere around 500. I think its going to depend a little on how good I can get the piggyback tweeked. The previous owner told me that with 8% he was getting 30 some gallons of syrup per hour and with 12 % 40 or 50. That seems kind of light to me but he said he never did much tweeking with the piggyback so I guess Ill just have to wait and see. Whatever it is itll be quicker boiling than the 3 by 10. Gotta get the BIGSAP in the barrell. You did see where I posted I was wrong on the size and its a 6 by 14? Theron

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    Theron, those numbers dont add up..... at 8% making 30 gallons per hour.... if my math is right of course.... 8% would be roughly 10 gallons of sap to make a gallon and that would make you at a little over 300 gallons evaporation per hour.... you will be higher than that.
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    Yeah, I saw where you had error in size. When you get to something that big, little easier to make that mistake vs a small one. I may have been over optomistic. I would think you can evaporator 300+ gph, hopefully with the piggy back, it will get you 60% or better, so that should get you around where you need to be. I would think you could do some tweaking with the burners to get them to burn correctly too. 30 gallon of syrup per hour with 8% is only evaporating off less than 300 gph since the 30 gallon that comes out doesn't count as evaporation. I would think you could get it to a lot better than that. Maybe get Jerry down there to get it hopping, don't know how much of an oil man he is.
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    On a good night with the right wood I can bump 300 gph with Marvin,,,(perfect conditions- been as low as 190 gph) with oil and everything FINETUNED you will be doing better than that!
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    Thad and Brandon- I know what you mean about the numbers not adding up. Im not sure what the think. Jerry says it should do 450 per hour. At 8% your getting a gallon every 10 gallons so that would be 45 gallons per hour. If it does that Im super happy. I think Jerry is pretty good with all that stuff. Im booking an appointment with him now. I know I dont know didly about them so Im hoping he can get it really cranking. I guess well have to wait and see. Theron

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    I pulled 45 gph with mine and that was running it 1.5 inches deep. I know when I lowered that number things got quicker... I just wasnt ready to push it at all..... Theron what kind of pans do you have.... and how do they connect to each other?
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    Thad- I would think that this thing should do at least as good as yours. If your getting 45 thats good news for me. The pans are raised flue 6 by 10 flue pan and two cross flow syrup pans. Then you have the piggyback on top of that. Im thinking maybe my buddy that had it before me may have not been getting optimum performance out of the piggy back and that might make a pretty good difference. That arch is supposed to be pretty high performance. I think it will do a lot if its running right. If it does anythere around 40 gallons per hour with me single passing the ro's Im in heaven. Reallistically I have a pretty small operation for that much evaperator but thats fine becouse if I can boil fast thats great and if Im at it for a long time then Im making a lot of syrup and thats fine. Theron

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