No impact from stirring...it's about what is on the electrodes. Silver oxide and silver hydroxide. Changing electro chemical by products back into ions takes energy as a 'buildup' gets un-built. Current stays constant as voltage drop to keep that current constant flattens out for about 20 seconds [per half cycle, actually] If the voltage isn't dropping, silver isn't being emitted, ionic content in the water slows down motion as its driver [voltage] subsides, stands still for a moment, then turns around and heads the other way. So, alternating polarity is slower, but wastes almost no silver.
Using longer cycles makes the buildups thicker and should take that much more time to reverse everything, but what seems to be some sort of inertial curve limits the increase in time. 3 to 5 minutes per half cycle is almost as fast as DC. On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:11 PM Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/13/2020 8:58 AM, Ode Coyote wrote: > > There is about 20 seconds after a shift that things unwind then rewind the > other way and nothing much happens. > > > This is impacted when stirring is used, right? The ions should be getting > washed away within seconds of being generated. So if stirring is used, > there should be very little rewind time. Am I correct on this assumption? > > A one minute cycle will be quite slow. > A five minute cycle with 20 seconds missing is a lot faster. > You will want the electrodes far enough away from each other that the > ions don't make it all the way to the other side during the cycle. > > > I space my silver plates at one inch. > > Marshall > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 2:13 PM Gm Gm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi there: >> Just wondering if anyone has done any experimenting with the >> timing for polarity reversal. Not doubting the 1 minute at all. But at that >> rate, that would be 60 cycles an hour, and 600 cycles for a 10 hour brew. >> Since I make several brews at a time, that is a lot of wear and tear on the >> relays. Does anyone know the lifetime cycles those relays can handle before >> failure? I am going to be using a DH 48S-2Z unit from Amazon. >> Thank you... Regards Grant. >> > >
