I received my new shipment of SPRK 3 Ceramic cartridges. I bought “Marble”.
I also was able to quickly resolve the issue with the defective cartridge. 1 out of 4 had a leak. I contacted them via email over the long weekend and after the week went by I went back to their website to get another option. They do not have an available phone number listed. I chose chat.
It first takes you through automated prompts then if that doesn’t help asks for your email to have someone personally help via chat or email. I was available for chat.
This time I had an easier time with the bottle and concentrate.
I pulled the concentrate from the fridge, it’s easier to play with cold and firm. I did the same as before but…
The bottle is 19.96grams…I got 1.09grams of concentrate hooped onto the top making sure it all was within the rim.
Then as before I put the bottle top up… Partially submerged in hot tap water… The bottle warms up… Intern heating the concentrate. Within minutes it goes down into the tiny bottle hole.
I then as before added about 2.5ml of liquidizer. Boiled again for 5 minutes.
I got 4 SPRK 3 Ceramic cartridges filled.
They look nice… I am finishing my last SPRK 2 Ceramic today.
Other than needing to filter out very fine stuff it works well.
I have been researching different methods and will update with results.
Just curious… Those syringe filters… I had a thought, after watching a video on filtering concentrate oil and seeing how much pressure must be put on the syringe with the filter on to get oil through it with the liquidizer added…
Could the filters handle… If i took the concentrate and dissolved it back in more Everclear and filtered the much thinner alcohol/concentrate mixture to get out the fine plant material?
Then I’d just have to reevaporate it… If that worked… I could easily, in theory, redo/filter all my concentrates I have prepared already… About 15grams…
Doing good brother. Just taking it one day at a time… hope youre doing good as well. In theory that should work. All youre doing is diluting, filtering, and then re evaporating correct?
June 2nd was the day I chatted with the PCKT Customer Service via chat… They shipped out a replacement for the SPRK 2 Ceramic defective… They offered me the choice of the 2 or 3 for a replacement… I chose the 3…they are much better.
I found a use for ChatGPT, it told me that using my vacuum pump with 0.08Mpa capacity, ethanol will have a boiling point of about 66C (151F) (down from 78C at 1 ATM).
Is that low enough?
what is the boiling point of ethanol in a system with a 0.08Mpa vacuum pump
Answer:
The boiling point of a substance can be influenced by the pressure in the system. In the case of ethanol, at standard atmospheric pressure (101.3 kPa or 1 atm), the boiling point is approximately 78.4 degrees Celsius or 173.1 degrees Fahrenheit.
To determine the boiling point of ethanol in a system with a vacuum pump generating a pressure of 0.08 MPa, we need to convert the pressure to the appropriate units. 0.08 MPa is equal to 80 kPa (since 1 MPa = 1000 kPa).
Ethanol’s boiling point at different pressures can be estimated using a phase diagram or vapor pressure data. However, without specific data for ethanol’s vapor pressure at 80 kPa, we can use the Antoine equation, which provides an approximation for the vapor pressure of a substance as a function of temperature:
log(P) = A - (B / (T + C))
Where:
P is the vapor pressure in kPa,
T is the temperature in degrees Celsius,
A, B, and C are constants specific to the substance.
For ethanol, the Antoine equation constants are approximately:
A = 8.20417
B = 1642.89
C = 230.3
To find the boiling point, we can rearrange the equation as follows:
T = (B / (A - log(P))) - C
Plugging in the values, we have:
T = (1642.89 / (8.20417 - log(80))) - 230.3
Calculating this equation, we find that the boiling point of ethanol in a system with a 0.08 MPa (80 kPa) vacuum pump is approximately 66.3 degrees Celsius or 151.3 degrees Fahrenheit.
I am still going to filter my concentrate while still in ethanol before evaporated or recovered with a syringe filter. Waiting on delivery along with 5ml Luer Lock Tip Syringes.
However, I found this on the farmtovape website about darkening vape liquid:
I am also buying a new vape pen… The newest version of the ooze twist slim pen has lower voltage settings… It may help with the darkening as well. My current version 1.0 from about 2017 or 18 has a min volt or 3.3 whereas the newest(version 2.0)is 2.0v.
Plus they “ooze” has SIGNAL – 650 MAH CONCENTRATE VAPORIZER PEN… Volts of three choices 2.7, 3.2, & 4.0.
It has a chamber for concentrate… No liquidizer needed.
