Dear Mike: This looks very similar to my colloidal silver generator design and therefore I suggest that you look for silver crystals forming on the negative wire as an indication that the ionic silver solution has become saturated. This may take 2 days and depends on other factors like temperature, the quality of the distilled water and the phase of the moon.
I would also question the use of a solid state regulator at this low power supply voltage. This device is rated a 25 volts and I suspect that you loose more than 1 volt turn on threshold. The minimum knee impedance is listed at 6 volts and the maximum limiting voltage is 1.00 volts. This means that you do not get 3 volts to the electrodes at rated current. You might want to measure this to make sure, I am just guessing. With my design I just use a 4.7 K ohm resistor and that seems to work fine. Another comment is that the Hanna PWT seems to give a 1 to 1 correspondence of uS to silver PPM when making silver at these low voltages and currents. If making good colloidal silver is important, then it is worthwhile to spend $60 for this meter. It also lets you test the quality of the distilled water. Jim Meissner www.MeissnerResearch.com -----Original Message----- From: M. G. Devour [mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 3:34 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: CS>Big WOOPS! I don't know if most of you remember the episode a few years back when Marshalee discovered the batteries in her generator were dead? It explained why her CS had stopped working for her and was a cautionary tale for all of us! Well, I'm not sure what made me think of it today, but I decided to measure the voltage across my electrodes just to see if the batteries were still okay. They should be, given that the load we put on them making CS is so low they should be good for their shelf-life of several **years.** No voltage. Huh?! I took apart the case and, lo and behold, the cheapo battery holder from radio shack is broken, with the end popped off and the batteries sticking out. Grrrr! So just how long has MY colloidal silver been plain water? God only knows. It's been at least 5 years since I built this thing in its current incarnation and I'm still on the original set of batteries. The last time I checked the voltage? I don't remember. Time to re-build it with a small LED and a pushbutton battery test switch. And a better quality battery holder, of course. FYI, my generator consists of two AA batteries for 3 volts, a current limiting diode (part# 1N5285, 0.27 ma), a silver eagle coin for the anode, and a couple of copper wires for cathodes, one on either side of the coin. The cathodes have insulation on them except for the bottom 1/4" or so. It will also have a battery-check light, real soon. <sigh> Be well! Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
