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_**SIDE NOTE:** Save your money and just get a [$65 Air Still clone](https://www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Distiller-Countertop-Distilled-Stainless/dp/B0CN2SBJLT/) water distiller for this project. Add that to the cost to build this or purchase a kit from my website, and it still comes in less expensive than an original Still Spirits Air Still with the temperature control problems._

_**This project began on October 22, 2024 and does not yet have an official release...**_<br><br>

Aside from Still Spirits brand Air Stills only being sold as an Ethanol Version and a Water Version, they both suffer the same design flaw where the temperature is managed the same way it is with an electric cooking appliance. Even the various Air Still clones out there work the same way, including the ones with adjustable temperature. They send full power to the heating element when heating up, shut it off when they're up to temperature, then repeat this cycle.

If you have any suspended solids in your wash, they will scorch and fuse to the bottom as they fall out of solution. This will add foul flavors to anything that you're distilling, especially gin. As with my [RPi-Smart-Still](https://github.com/larry-athey/rpi-smart-still) project, this problem is solved by replacing the relays or snap switches on the heating element with an SCR controller or an SSR running as a simplified PID controller _(temperature controlled 0.20 Hz PWM)_.
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