I had one thought, which concerns the distiller- if the distiller is
old, maybe something inside it has corroded, or possibly is has gotten
gunked up with minerals. I suppose you have considered this already,
which is why I didn't mention it before.
I agree with the idea of preboiling- before I gave up on my water and
started buying my drinking water, I used to boil it on a slow burner
for awhile, and that would make it acceptable to taste, much better
than straight out of the tap (before our water changed, too- they
changed the way they process the city's water). I had it open, no lid,
to get the volatiles out, then covered it and let it go another maybe
20-30 minutes. I always had a white dusting of minerals in the pot
afterwards too.
Throwing out the first cup or so of distillate sounds like a reasonable
thing to try too. This sounds like some fun, doing some experiments to
see what changes things. If mine wasn't radioactive, I might do some
myself.
Good luck,
Kathryn
On Feb 13, 2009, at 6:05 PM, M. G. Devour wrote:
Something has changed in the water here in the last couple years. I'll
repeat that it used to be that several months of the year I could put
filtered cold tap water into the still and get out DW of about .2uS.
The
remaining months of the year it took putting the water through the
still
twice to get it down to .2 uS. Now it takes 3 or 4 passes through the
still to get it that pure.
I imagine you've been over this all before with Ken, sol, but a few
questions:
Can you pre-boil your feed water for a while before putting it in the
distiller, so as to drive off any volatiles with lower boiling points?
Or is there a way to vent the vapor for a while before you start
collecting?
Or just throw out the first bits of water collected?
Separate the output into a number of different jars while the distiller
is going and see if the conductivity changes from one part of the run
to another?
Be well,
Mike D.
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