Michael C McNeill wrote: > > I'm looking for info on making a solar-powered CS generator. Anyone with > plans &/or experience, please let me hear from you.
Michael, Tech America has a solar PV panel on sale this month for $19.95 (normally $29.95) which is designed to be used to keep the battery in a car trickle charged . Part # 980-0561 "Battery Saver" (1-800-877-0072) for those who do not yet have a panel to use. (It'll also easily recharge the 9 cell nicad battery I custom build for the Zapper HFA-4AVR models.) It should be producing about 14 volts or more to do this; probably more voltage than that, without a heavy load. If you've seen the info on CS on my web site, you know that I use 15 volts to make CS, and it works very well; max current output that's needed is only 8mA, which should be well within the output capacity of these small panels. I intend to order or pick up one of these soon, and will write up info on using one to power a CS generator, and for recharging batteries in other devices... Should do a web page specificly on this subject when time allows. ( The info will definitely go into "The Colloidal Silver Maker's & User's Experimental Information Handbook", available from the website referenced below.) The Zapper/ Pulsed DC CS generator construction project on my web site can also be directly powered by a panel this size; I'd probably end up using such a panel to recharge a NICAD battery pack, or a Gell cell, and use the battery to do the actual CS generating... (A 12 volt car battery can make CS nicely.) For minimal circuit power requirements, the CMOS version of the timer chip, the 7555, would be the best choice in building the project, keeping in mind that this chip is very sensitive to damage from static electricity levels which you wouldn't even notice. Note that CS generating needs to be done in very subdued light, as silver is photo-reactive; so the PV panel, sitting in direct sunlight, has an extended output wire which then runs to the CS generator container located in a dark place... or simply set up some sort of light proof box or case which has the PV panel on the outside, & the CS gen. inside... a place to plug in a simple current reading meter to monitor the progress of a batch, and you're set. (Even covering the outside of a CS generator with a light-proof covering, such as aluminum foil, would work, as long as the power to the electrodes isn't shorted out by the foil.) My CS info pages on 'The Alternate Health Approaches Forum' can be found at: http://web.idirect.com/~showcase/althealth/csilver.htm Questions & comments always welcome! Be Well! Bruce -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
