Re: [EE] Measuring increasing mass over a 1/2 day period

On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 at 08:08, Chuck Olson <[email protected]> wrote:

> John -
>
> Thanks, the still does that condensing - there is a stainless tube
> with fins on it and a fan pulls air through the fins to condense the
> water vapor.
>
> If you mean measuring the volume of the condensed water, that's what I
> do now - it's just that it is really hard to measure 4000 ml to a
> precision of 1 ml.  But it's easy to measure 4000 gram mass to a
> precision of one gram.
>
> I don't know if your mechanical arrangement allows this, but if most of
your volume is in a large container, but increasing liquid fills a thin
column  (like a chimney extending out the top of the main container) then
fluid volume change can be easily observed.


     Russell