Hi Jim, You are quite right, your current did go up near the end of your run. Put your digital ammeter in series, using 10.3 volts, turn off the generator at 686 uA which should be approximately 10ppm. If you want 5ppm turn it off at 515 uA.
When you go to 31volts turn it off at 2.06mA for 10ppm or 1.55mA for 5ppm. This is the same as 15000 or 20000 ohms total resistance for both voltages. Current regulation is really un-necessary since you should never allow the current to go above 2-3mA (@ 30 volts) with high quality distilled water. Of course there is lots of room for advanced experimentation. See some of Bob Lee's recent posts for truly advanced techniques in the highest form of the CS art. Bless you, Bob Lee. The figures above use a 2" to 2 1/4" spacing on your electrodes with about 3 1/2" wetted 14ga silver wire and 16oz of room temperature water. Adding a fish tank bubble stone or small stirring motor or hand stirring makes a lot of difference in the quality of the CS, but have fun, it all works well! Gary -----Original Message----- From: Acmeair [mailto:res00...@gte.net] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 7:37 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: CS>AC adaptor/CS have just made my first batch of CS , using an old ac adaptor. 117V/60 Hz/3W with an output of 9vdc, 200ma. will try to make a voltage tripler, using the diagram from the url posted by geo. martin, on 3 oct. thanks for the post, geo. the cs turned out a nice light yeller, and didn't take long.about 20 minutes. did notice that near the end of the cycle, a lot of black fuzz was growin on anode/ cathod???. my guess is that as the concentration of the cs went up, the current flow increased. and also, the silver wires were quite close. what would the best current flow to make 5-15 ppm cs? after the tripler, the voltage should be about 31, as the measured output of this adaptor is 10.3 volts. how would one restrict the current flow as the cs increases in strength. also, could you switch the polarity back and forth with dpdt switch? would appreciate any an all comments. jim, O+, S
