G'day, Bear with me here, this is a tad long...
I've finished building my first CS generator... I used the instructions from Mr. Stenulson's website and built a pulsed DC version (using 18 volts). My testing with a digital meter confirms that the circuitry is working correctly. Until I can get some electrode material ordered (in the form of wire or flat strips), I decided to experiment a little bit with silver coins (one Canadian Maple Leaf <anode> and another collector coin that is labeled ".999+" <cathode>). Though I made a "practice" batch of CS, my setup is far from perfect and needs a 'lot' of fine-tuning before I'll drink any of it -- I just wanted to see if it all worked. I ended up using a styrofoam plate with parallel slits cut into it to suspend the coins from... I pushed the coins just enough through the slits that I could attach the alligator clips to them -- ended up with just over half of each coin submerged. Now, remember that I only made this batch to see if everything was working correctly... I used distilled water at room temperature. My coins were placed 1" apart (for no good reason - thats just where I cut the slits for this first go-around). The initial reading on my digital meter was ~9 volts & .13mA which increased 'very' slowly up to 2.5mA after about 1 hour -- at which point I stopped the process. I would describe the result as "very slightly cloudy" in appearance (just cloudy enough to tell that its not just plain water). In my opinion it is not even the slightest shade of yellow though (even after 36 hours). When using a laser, there is a pronounced and distinct Tyndall effect (even when viewed in a lit room). Now for the questions... 1. Given the above set-up... what would be a good distance to have the electrodes apart from each other? 2. For you math whiz's , how much surface area would be submerged with 3 1/4" of 14 gauge wire... and how much of my coins do I need to submerge to get roughly the same surface area? 3. Does the "very slightly cloudy" (but not yellow - more whitish, in fact) appearance (with the distinct Tyndall effect) of my finished product indicate that it is an inferior CS? From what I've read, a distinct Tyndall effect indicates large particles, correct? 4. The instructions given on the website I mentioned say that when using 3 1/4" of submerged electrodes spaced 1/2" apart in water that is 150-180 degrees, that stopping the process at 8mA generally yields 20ppm. Apparently this process takes roughly 35 minutes if you use 1/4 of a previous batch of CS as a starter... with the setup I described, I was only at about 2.5mA after an entire hour (and I was using 18v compared to his 15v). Any possible ideas for such a difference? Is it a combination of the electrodes being twice as far apart and the water temperature being only room temperature? Anything else? I'll stop there for now. Hehe! Thanks in advance to anyone who takes on the challenge of addressing this post! :-) Mike -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org 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>
