Hello,
I am new to making CS, and have made my own generator out of alligator
clamps, wire, and a 27 volt ac/dc plug (husband helped make it). :-)
Anyway, I have read several sites that say they use spring water instead of
distilled water, because spring water has everything in it, where as distilled
water you need to add baking soda to get the silver started.
So, I decided to use spring water to make my CS so I wouldn't have to add
stuff to the water. I tested the spring water and the TDS meter shows 143 on
the meter. (is this the ppm?).
I also tested the CS when it was finished with the TDS meter and it showed
117 (is this the ppm?).
Why would the ppm go down after making CS? Wouldn't it make sense that the
number would go up and not down?
I read that heating the water makes a higher ppm of CS than using water
that is room temperature. So I heated the water, and then put the homemade
generator together and started it. You could see that the silver was coming
off the silver wire, and the other wire was turning a slight greyish black
color.
You can also see the silver floating around in the water after the
generator was unhooked (the process stopped). The water is a little cloudy.
When you drink it, it taste a little bitter. So you would still figure that
the number on the TDS meter should read higher, instead of lower.
I was on another forum for those making CS, and someone told me that I
needed to use the distilled water instead of the spring water. They also said
that I needed to get on here and talk to others that make CS to get more
information, since their forum had more or less died out.
I hope someone on here can help me.
Thank you very much,
Martha
