diff --git a/scripts/configuration.py b/scripts/configuration.py
index 8360281..dfc30f2 100644
--- a/scripts/configuration.py
+++ b/scripts/configuration.py
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@
 GALLERY_LEXICAL_RETRIEVER_PATH = "../models/gallery_lexical_retrieval.joblib"
 
 # Parameters for the scraper
-CHUNK_SIZE = 1_500
+# gte-large will truncate at 512 tokens so let's limit to 700 characters
+CHUNK_SIZE = 700
 CHUNK_OVERLAP = 10
 
 # Sentence transformer model