Welcome Maple leaf...
How are you going to heat it? I'm a propane guy. Scotty and others can help on heating plates and necessary controllers.
Hoses: whether pot or reflux distillation, the condenser always gets cooled so your main and coldest water should go to condenser. If you have the "split" connection with ball valve to the side, connect the side part to the column; I do it at the lowest connecter. Then you step-ladder up with the short tubes til the last connecter is empty The top connecter goes to output (waste or re-cycle) hose. On your condenser, Connect the straight through tube at bottom, out at top. If you reflux, then open valve on side to cool column, pot distill, close valve

Hi cavan, For your cooling water hook ups on the column you want to go in at the top and out at the bottom. The purpose being you want the coldest water at the top in order to stabilize the fractions in your column. If you hook up from bottom to top it will create a turbulance in the column and disrupt stabilization of the vapors, making it harder to seperate the heads from the hearts, from the tails.
For the condenser you want to hook it up, in at the bottom out at the top, in order to create a cooling path that gets colder towards the output end.
I use two pumps, one for the column and one for the condenser. John Barleycorn wrote a good description on how to use the ball valve to control the water flow with just one pump.
You will want the coldest water going to the column first then then to the condenser. You need to control the column temp for a good reflux. The condenser will work just fine with the water coming off the column as long as your water source is cold enough to begin with.