Ni Orsi wrote: > > Bruce, when making CS last night I found this: > > 1. It left a film on my glass that was light yellow and very hard to > get off, in fact I still have not got all of it off.
This has been noticed by many, myself included, and seems to be caused by fine silver particles 'plateing out' on the surface of the glass. I use a Scotch-brite pad to clean this film, rinsing thorughly /repeatedly with distilled water. > > 2. When I drink the CS it has a slight metal taste. This is also normal experience, and may well be due to the charge on the silver particles. ( "... the +1 monovalent silver ion is 300 times more toxic / effective than other forms..." - see the B.C. Ambient Water Quality Criteria For Silver" article for good technoical background.) > 3. Right after drinking 8 oz I get a slight numbness in my throat that > goes away after about 30+/- minutes. Also reported by many others; I personally do not experience this sensation, but I also tend to hold the CS in my mouth for at least a couple minutes before swallowing, to allow it to absorb under the tongue, into the blood, as recommended by several other CS users. > > Question: > > 1. After 30+/- minutes can you stop and re-boil the water/CS, then > continue to make CS? If you keep your CS generating container on a coffee maker heating surface, or on one of the coffee cup warmer hot plates, etc, this should not be necessary... > > 2. When you refer to low DC are you saying that 9V is better than 27V, > or are you saying to stay away from higher Volts than 27? Technically, 'low voltage' is defined by UL as being below 42 volts. Anything below that level is not considered a shock hazard, as I understand it... In my experience, 9 volts is excessively slow; if all you had was one 9 volt battery & you needed CS, you could use it & eventually have CS, but the production rate would be slower than necessary. 12 volts overcomes the initial minimal conductivity of pure distilled water in a more reasonable amount of time, and can be very workable. (less than 4 volts will do it eventually, but you really need a lot of patience! <g>) When working with the commonly available / supplied 12 ga to 14 ga wire silver electrodes, with a modest amount of wetted surface area, a system using 27 to 36 volts may run more current through the system later in the genetrating process than is desirable, from the standpoint of the mechanical redispersal of the plated out silver 'sludge' that forms on the negatively charged electrode (called the 'cathode' while in operation.) You'll definitely need to filter your finished product... The 40mA rated bulb as a current limiter is used / specified because it's commonly available; (anyone found a 24-27 volt bulb with a 10 to 15mA rateing?... might be more what you would like to use in a system with small electrodes....) A list member from Down Under is working on a current controlled CS system which starts by boosting voltage to give good initial current flow, then regulates the current to not let it exceed a given value (based again on electrode surface area.) My favorite approach, without needing to get too complicated, is to use a voltage in between (15 volts works well for me) which will allow reaching the desired CS concentration without producing excess current flow; then monitoring the unrestricted current rise with a simple meter to know when to end the generating process. A given end point current reading, for a given electrode geometry, always gives a predictable/ reproducable PPM of CS, [as read on the Hanna Instruments TDS1.] > > Bruce, thanks for your help. Ni Questions & comments always welcome! There's still some 'undefined ground' in this field of research; there are also many having good results using their home made CS. Be Well! Bruce http://web.idirect.com/~showcase/althealth/csilver.htm -- 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]>
