Meet Source Turbo

Description

The Source Turbo: Helping people understand why the Source Turbo is special and why what it does is important is one of the most challenging missions ExtractCraft faces as a company. In general terms, the Source Turbo is an appliance that allows anyone to perform home ethanol extraction easily and safely, using botanical materials like lavender, sandalwood, hops, and mushrooms for anything you’d like to use in culinary arts, scenting, smoking, vaping, and medicine making. The Source Turbo produces incredible, high-quality concentrates that will amaze you from the first try. More specifically, the Source Turbo is an advanced piece of extraction equipment with capabilities normally found only in a lab but designed to feel familiar in the home and fit comfortably on the kitchen counter. It is a combination of internal vacuum generation and heat delivery specifically tuned for low-temperature ethanol evaporation, incorporating an outer containment serving triple duty as a vacuum chamber, cold trap, and collection vessel controlled by a system so technologically advanced that operation requires only the push of a single green button. The Source Turbo is designed for small-batch countertop extraction. The unit can be loaded with a liquid volume of about 300 ml. Depending on the material, that equates to processing about an ounce of dry material and producing a few grams of concentrate. It’s perfect for the hobbyist or test kitchen. It’s a lot of science bundled in a small package. You can’t forget the app these days. The Source Turbo has a great mobile app to monitor estimated content temperature, vacuum level, current altitude setting, and time remaining until auto-shutoff. Using the app is optional and not required for the unit’s operation, so those who don’t want to do so don’t have to. HOW THE SOURCE TURBO OPERATES The Source Turbo performs the important operation of evaporating and purging ethanol in the ethanol extraction process. Traditionally, evaporation for at-home extraction has been accomplished by allowing ethanol to evaporate slowly for a couple of days or boiling it in an open atmosphere with high heat. Neither of those options is good because natural evaporation takes far too long, and boiling off ethanol with high heat destroys the most flavorful and aromatic elements of an extraction, thus destroying quality. Most concerning, both options fill the surrounding air with combustible fumes, which is wasteful and dangerous. The Source Turbo is designed to address and eliminate those problems. The Source Turbo is a self-contained closed-loop system that solves old ethanol evaporation problems without cumbersome, difficult-to-use, expensive lab equipment. Vacuum technology and advanced system controls evaporate ethanol around 100°F. The very low operational temperatures preserve the most delicate attributes of an extraction, creating the most high-quality, potent oil possible. Using a combination of vacuum, heat, and outside ambient temperature, the vacuum chamber becomes a “cold-trap” and collection vessel to reclaim evaporated ethanol for reuse. Reclaiming ethanol for reuse keeps the dangerous fumes from filling the surroundings, saves significant money with every use, and eliminates waste. When the extraction process is completed, the pure oil concentrate remains in the crucible, and the clean reclaimed ethanol is separated in the collector.