As someone has already said, it increases current flow. The water provides a resistance to the flow of electrical current. Moving the rods closer together reduces the resistance to current flow by reducing the amount of water between the two rods. Other things can reduce the resistance between the rods as well. Some of them are colloidal sivler depositeed in the water, contanminants such as salt and higher water temperature. Current flow can also be increased by increasing the voltage applied to the rods but systems you purchase usually don't give that option. It is the flow of current between the two rods that removes silver from one of the rods and deposits the removed silver in the water. There is a limit to how much you can reduce time by increasing current flow: however. The higher the current the larger the size of the silver coloids deposited in the water and large silver colloids are not desireable. That is why it is generally recommended that the current used be no greater than 20 milliamperes. Most colloidal silver generators are designed to limit the maximum curret to less than 20 ma. Think of water current in a stream. Slow flowing current only picks of small dirt particles. A strong current will also pick up rocks. In colloidal silver you only want the smaller particles and not the rocks. I hope this isn't confusing and answers your question. - Steve
----- Original Message ----- From: Dee <d...@deetroy.org> To: silver-list@eskimo.com <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Thu Aug 14 06:10:33 2008 Subject: RE: CS>Silver rods Hi Steve, what difference does the distance the rods are apart make? How does this affect the time it takes to make the CS? Dee -------Original Message------- From: Norton, Steve Date: 13/08/2008 23:27:04 To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: RE: CS>Silver rods Carrole, Simple answer, if one of your rods turns black, you are making colloidal silver. How much and how fast is something else. The black is silver oxide forming on the negative electrode. The faster the black forms the faster you are generating colloidal silver. If one rod does not turn black, you are not creating colloidal silver or you are doing so at a very slow rate. A number of factors affect the rate at which you generate colloidal silver. The primary ones are the voltage across the rods, the spacing between the rods and the amount of colloidal silver (or impurities) in the water. -- 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>
