Carol Ann said,
I am using a Radio Shack AC Adapter. It has a 13.5/30
alternating switch. 1000mA. I have experimented my
process beginning at 30 and when the solution reaches
1 or 2 ppm I switch to 13.5. Eventually, regardless of
where I begin, I finish with a settled solution which
is not clear. The end product is always some shade of
yellow. Also, it may read 10-12 when I am done, but
eventually settles anywhere from 3-6 as a finished
products days later and always the color deepens. Do
you think the Adapter using 1000mA is too high?
Chuck answered,
Believe me, you NEVER reach 1000 ma! That is the spec
of the upper limit of the device. In other words, it's
fine for your application because it will never
overheat and meltdown at the current that YOUR
application uses (which would be less than 5 ma).
Terry comments,
Actually, you could reach a very high amperage if you
brewed it long enough, because as the silver level in
the water increases (conducting the electricity
better), the current increases. Whether you would
reach 1000 ma or not, I dont know, but high enough to
brew coffee-colored CS. The fact that you always get
yellow CS is because of one of several things: One,
your water is not pure enough, either because it
hasnt been distilled efficiently (sloppy maintenance,
no end filter, etc.), or because something is getting
into it i.e., your jars are not totally clean. Or,
two, because you are brewing it too long. Theres no
need to use the lower voltage, it doesnt do anything
but slow down the brewing process. It doesnt brew
better CS than the higher voltage. You can use the
30-volt setting all the time, you just need to figure
out when to stop. Thats fairly easy you just time
your batch. If it turns yellow, brew it 5 minutes less
the next batch. Keep shortening the brewing time each
batch until you end up with clear CS. (At 30 volts,
that will be about 10 ppm, which is fine.) If you got
yellow CS after 50 minutes, but clear after 45 minutes
on the next batch, you know that your brewing time is
45 minutes. But first you must be sure everything is
kosher pure water, clean jars, etc. The current
capacity of a power source is unimportant, because you
will stop brewing before it gets high. My own power
source is 30 amps, but I stop when it reaches 20 ma.
There is another factor to consider. The reason for
stirring is because the only water that is being
turned into CS is the water between the wires, so you
must move the water around to make sure the other
water also gets between the wires. If you put your
water into a tall, narrow jar, and put the wires as
far apart as the jar allows, stirring is unnecessary
because ALL the water is between the wires. (You might
need longer wires, so they hang most of the way down.)
If you put 1/4 CS with 3/4 DW in the jar, it will
shorten the brewing time by 2/3. (1 cup of CS with 3
cups of DW to brew 1 quart of CS.) So if you had
already determined that you can make clear CS in 45
minutes but not 50 (from the above example), when you
add 1/4 CS, you can produce the same amount of clear
CS in about 15 minutes.
The goal here is to brew your CS as long as possible
and still end up with clear CS. Yellow CS means your
wires are dissolving faster than they need to (shorter
life).
Terry Chamberlin
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