Out of curiosity I just bought a CS unit that intrigued me. It comes in a small wooden box with a set of wires with alligator leads. The box is screwed shut and a note says to send the unit back to have the batteries replaced at a cost of $23. I couldn't resist opening it up to see what was inside. It's 3 cheap 9v batteries with a set of 3 small LED's attached in series. $23 for $4 worth of batteries and $5 in shipping. Not a bad profit if you're into sticking it to people.
How well would a unit like this work? They claim you can make a gallon or so in just a few minutes of use. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: M. G. Devour [mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 10:59 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>Re: buying cs instead of making it... > In article <005701c24e48$12bc0900$d90e3...@home>, > "MARIANO DELISE" <nancym...@prodigy.net> wrote: > >How would you make a battery operated silver wand? I bet you could get by with only a few volts from some AA or AAA size batteries, or even some button cells... Maybe an N-size? Remember, the you're talking about germ-killing in plain tap water, rainwater, streamwater or whatever. It's already quite conductive, and it will only take a few *seconds* for enough silver ions to come off the "wand" to effectively generate a few ppm of silver in the water. The voltage needed for that would be quite low. You'd probably put in a small series resistor to protect the batteries a little and set a reasonable maximum current. Don't know how well it'd work, but would be a simple concept to try. > I'd probably cobble together two or three 9v batteries into a handle > holding a couple pieces of heavy gauge .999 or .9999 silver wire. The > wires would be stirred in a glass of tap water to disinfect it with > silver. Let it sit a bit to allow critters to be killed, then drink. > > With a little experimentation and analysis one should be able to find > a suitable combo of electrode spacing and number of batteries to make > an effective unit. Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- 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>
