Hi Ted, What Hanna meter are you using? If it's the TDS meter, you'll not get very good results. If it's the PWT you'll do much better.
I find it odd that you get zero reading with the distilled water. That makes me think you probably have the TDS. Distilled water usually reads from .5 to 2.0 in most when measured with the PWT cases although there are a few brands in certain parts of the country that are outside those limits. Trem ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Windsor" <t...@shaw.ca> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 1:39 PM Subject: Re: CS>Measuring CS strength > I realize that there are many who may know more about the technical part of > making CS. I have been using CS for several years, and I use a Hanna unit to > measure the CS I am making. When I start wit 0 [zero] PPM and when I remeasure > the readings read 5 PPM? What are the PPM being measured if not CS? All I know > is the CS I make works, and many people send me their thanks for what it does > for them. I do not charge for the CS I give away, many times it is for > children, they seem to get well. What can I say! > Blessings > Ted > > Trem wrote: > > > Hi Bob, > > > > Yes, I understand. However, the standard solutions were part of the package > > provided by Hanna. The problem was that the readings were NOT repeatable > > nor were the results ANYWHERE near the known results which were obtained > > from Kimball Labs. The unit did not work on CS....period. End of story. > > > > PWT's work much better even if they do not measure the colloidal portion. > > At least they can be calibrated with a correction factor to get the total > > PPM and the readings are very repeatable. That's what counts for me and I > > think for the average user. I'm not interested in measuring CS to the Nth > > degree. What I am interested is knowing roughly what the PPM is and I want > > it to be fairly accurate and repeatable. That's what I get with the PWT. > > As I have mentioned, we use three of them to average the readings when > > calibrating our generators and to check against each other. They are almost > > always the same as far as readings go....within one point or less usually. > > > > Why do you denigrate a very useful tool when it is so inexpensive to buy and > > also easy to use. > > > > Trem > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <bober...@postoffice.swbell.net> > > To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 10:46 AM > > Subject: Re: CS>Measuring CS strength > > > > > Hi Trem, > > > > > > I do not care whose spectrophotometer one uses. It must be calibrated vs a > > > known standard. > > > > > > You might go to the public library and get the video made by UCLA of > > > spectrophotography. It give a very good explaination of how it works and > > what > > > is required to calibrate one. > > > > > > Mine is make by Hach and I use there chemicals but it still had to be > > > calibrated as wach mahine has its own idiosyncrasies. > > > > > > "Ole Bob" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > 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 > > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
