All single LED's have a voltage rating of approx. 2 volts DC (not 5 or 14V!). The max. current rating for most LED's is around 20mA. They will light up (not too brightly) at 1mA or less and gradually increase reaching full brightness as you approach 10mA.
O.K. to use in series with ANY low voltage DC circuit (up to 20mA). Best to use a current limiting resistor. Otherwise the LED will burn out right quick when the silver wires touch (or get shorted by the silver growth on the cathode). Won't happen if you limit current. Bil ----- Original Message ----- From: G&B Rogers <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 7:41 AM Subject: CS>Intro and questions > Hello listers from a newbie, > I bought a CS generator and after seeing how simple it is, have tried my > hand at making some, hopefully to give to family for holiday gifts. The > version I am using is the one that comes from the Beck papers. My only > difficulty is getting a 24 grain of wheat bulb. I substituted a 14 v. > green LED bulb on the first one I made, (as a similar LED bulb was used on > the generator I purchased - although it uses only a 9 v. battery) but it > was quite difficult to see if the bulb was even lighting up. The flow > through the silver wire electrode was somewhat slow, I thought it would > work "faster" with the 27 voltage of batteries soldered in series than the > 9v powered purchased machine, but it didn't. > > My second version used a red 5v LED with integrated resistor, but when I > tested it, within seconds the water became cloudy. > > My questions are these: > 1) Can this be built without a bulb - just the three 9v clips in series > connected to alligator clips via zipper insulated wire? > 2) What would cause the second version (5v red LED) to make the water > cloudy so quickly, and is there a way to fix this? > 3) can other bulbs besides the recommended one (24v) be used for the 27v > battery version? > 4) I have been using the CS mostly for external disinfection so have been > using primarily purified water, not distilled. When I use distilled, even > when I leave the electrodes in for an hour, I do not get the golden color. > I have been adding only a drop of a baking soda solution to the distilled > water that I read helps with the process. > > Any suggestions for making these CS would be appreciated! I'm rather in a > time crunch since I need to get these done for the holidays. I figured > that with Y2K, all of my family could use having a generator on hand! > > I haven't done any of this kind of thing since I was a kid building Heath > kits with my dad, so if my explanations aren't clear enough, please forgive > me. > > Thank you, > Beth > > > > > -- > 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: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
