Re: CSHome Distilled Water Purity

2002-10-25 Thread Terry Dickinson
1uS or even better bought from a chemist in UK - what they use to make up medicines - I think you'll call it a drug store! Regards Terry - Original Message - From: Paul Ladendorf To: Silver List Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 7:37 PM Subject: CSHome Distilled Water Purity

Re: CSHome Distilled Water Purity

2002-10-25 Thread herx
I bought a used distiller from Ebay a few months ago. Since I don’t own a PWT, I can’t test my home distilled water for absolute conductivity, but I keep track of relative conductivity between batches by recording starting current (keeping all other variables the same). The starting current for

Re: CSHome Distilled Water Purity

2002-10-25 Thread Ode Coyote
I went around and bought a few different brands Crystal Springs 1.2 uS Morning Fresh Farms 1.1 uS Great Value 1.6 uS Food Lion 4.9 uS I've had good results with all of them. The Food Loin brand certainly doesn't need any sort of starter Ken At 11:37 AM 10/25/02 -0700, you wrote:

RE: CSHome Distilled Water Purity

2002-10-25 Thread James Osbourne, Holmes
To those who buy their distilled water and test it before brewing cs, how pure is it? Highly variable. The best I ever tried was Arrowhead. That did not register any PPM or mS with my Sprite 6000, that reads to tenths. Depending on your process, there is an optimum conductivity above

Re: CSHome Distilled Water Purity

2002-10-25 Thread Trem
Hi Paul, We use an old Barnstead still. Makes a gallon an hour and it always reads about 1.5 uS on a PWT. Much of the store water also comes in under 2.0. Never saw any over that. Home distillers are problematic because they aren't made to give you pure water, just pretty good water.