Hello Sarah, > A couple of more questions.................someone told me that the CS that > you make yourself was not any good. Now, abviously there is quite a question > there because everyone on this list seems to make their own.
The stuff I am making is as good as what I was shelling out large quantites of cash for :-). Truthfully I do not know what the PPM value is, but it tastes like the commericial stuff to me :-). > I am not at all > familiar with the process involved in making CS, so please excuse my > ignorance. <grin> we all started here, not a problem! There are many patient and helpful people with experience here who are glad to share. > But is it possible to make it incorrectly? I am sure that there is a way to make it incorrectly, but if I pay attention to (in my case) the time and current flow, the CS seems to be consistant (taste wise - I don't have a way to meter it accurately yet). Once I got distracted and left it run overnight, it was pretty obvious from looking at the glass, that was the only stuff I have thrown out so far. I'll leave someone else to comment about this in detail. > As I understand there > is a machine that you can buy to make CS for about $50, is that correct? Yes, there seems to be quite a range of price for these, many ways to do it and many claims to each method. I'm still undecided as to what is ultimately the best method, but people seem to be using the most basic LVDC (Low Voltage Direct Current) method with great success. > Someone had mentioned making your own machine??? How is that done and where > would one get the materials and (ingredient) to make the CS? For the LVDC method, it is pretty easy, three 9V batteries and a couple of alligator clips and two pieces of .999 fine or better silver wire and you are off to the races :-). This is what I first built and it worked fine. 9V batteries aren't cheap, so I have upgraded to a power supply that plugs in the wall. I am still questing to find the "best way" to do it and about to try LVAC (?) Low Voltage Alternating Current - using solid state parts - with an H-Bridge and a small (very!) computer. Apparently many ways to go here and to be honest, I am too new to this to know if it is actually *really* necessary to go beyond the basics, but I also like to tinker :-) :-). Mostly what I want is something that I can set time on and eventually *maybe* correlate that to a given PPM and then turn off. This is my big problem at the moment, I have other things happening and I forget it and end up with pretty strong stuff - not bad, just not consumable, but good for topical applications with the exception of the one I left running all night (overnight). Most of the parts can be found almost anywhere. The one critical element, of course, is the .999 fine or better silver electrodes. I am using .040 wire that I got from a jewelry supply store, but there is someone here on the list who has some and will (has?) parted with it for cost. For whatever it may be worth, it seems to me that what I am making for fractions of a cent (at very least a gallon so far) is every bit as good as the stuff I paid $40 for a tiny bottle of. > Thank you for your time and patience Hope this helps! As has been given to me by the list members (information and encouragement) so I try to return the same when I can :-)! Take care, Vikki. -- Victoria Welch, WV9K, DoD#-13, Net/Sys/WebAdmin SeaStar.org, vikki.oz.net "Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen" - Edward V. Berard. Do not unto others, that which you would not have others do unto you. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net>
