Hi Fred, and List, At 10:12 AM 3/30/98 -0500, you wrote: >I finally tried making some colloidal silver last night.
Great! >I used a coffee carafe with 10 cups of distilled water in it, >on a hot plate designed for coffee carafe's. >I don't know how hot the hot plate gets the water. Ten cups is about 2.5 liter - a lot of water if you "brew" for only an hour (I think). I was wondering about the electromagnetic effect that an electric hotplate has on the silver ions. Therefore I use gas. I let my water almost form bubbles and that is about 80 degrees Centigrade. >the current draw, and I let it 'cook' until it reached 8 milliamps >(per someone's suggestion on this mailing list). This took around one hour. I cook till it is light yellow, with strong Tyndall effect. I think that the current (mA) is influenced by the distance between the electrodes. >During operation, only one electrode produced bubbles. Same with me - the negative one. >But both electrodes had black stuff on them after I took them out of the >water.I thought only one electrode would have this stuff on it... >Any comments? My positive electrode is black, my negative electrode has soft grey stuff on it. >How small of a flashlight do you need to see the 'Tyndal' effect? >I shined a light through the CS and I didn't see anything, except a few >flakes of silver. Any comments? I use a penlight. Maglite is very good. No flakes in my brew. I see a very strong T-effect. >What coffee filters/other filters are safe to use to filter out the >big chunks? Some filters are treated with chemicals, and I don't want >to use those... Any suggestions? I use unbleached coffee perculating filters. >The plans, for the CS generator that I built, included a 28 VDC 40 milliamp >light bulb, but none of the local electronics stored carried one of these. >Anyone who knows what they are talking about know what would make a good >replacement? Could I just use a normal LED? How much current do these normally >draw? I use no bulb. I just use a multimeter to check the amps. Regards, Christian --------- Christian von Wechmar Stellenbosch, South Africa --------- -- 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]>
