Hi Neville, "to whom it concerns"? You, I think,<g>. Anyway, I'll take a shot at this; think of electricity as analogous to water; think of voltage as the pressure the water has tending to force it through, well, whatever; a hose (wire) a nozzle (resistor), a large or small pipe (big or small wire,and hence able to carry more or less water (electricity)) at that pressure (voltage), and also how quickly you can fill a bucket given that hose, nozzle, water pressure and size of bucket - (aahhh, the amps, or amperes, or milliamps, or microamps, etc.; the quantity of electricity flowing).
In the above, keep in mind that 'water' in this illustration has nothing at all to do with the water used in making colloidal silver; here it's just a handy way to give some sense of what these odd terms like volts, milliamps, and such represent. Also for the moment we will skip any detailed consideration of how fast the electricity is moving - for purposes of the analogy "it" is moving at virtually the speed of light, and always does. we'll also skip how fast ions move in solution and other arcane and seemingly contradictory stuff for now, you're already getting about the first month of a beginning course on electricity in a few minutes. OK, back to the analogy then, double the pressure behind the hose, leave the nozzle the same, and you will get twice the amperage (err, water in the bucket) in the same amount of time. Or, open the nozzle to twice the size with the same pressure behind it and, voila! twice the water in the same amount of time. [unless you've got a kink in the hose, aka a big resistor in your circuit. . . ] On to the magic of CS (Colloidal Silver). The - we hope pure - water used to make CS is not what comes out of the hose. Even if it had been pure before it went into the hose it might very well not be when it came out, so I'll not muddy the water further [sorry, almost] except to point out that pure H2O has a Very high resistance to the passage of electricity - Unlike the water from most domestic water supplies, which conducts electricity well enough to give people standing barefoot in it a nasty shock if they touch the wrong thing. Very high resistance results in very little electricity moving through the water with the silver wires hanging in it. The flow of electricity, measured in amps, or milliamps, is at first extremely small and as it flows off one wire, it begins to pull small bits of silver, as molecules or ions, off of the wire into the water; and as that happens the water becomes more conductive or to put it the other way, to have less resistance. After all, now it has some ions which 'impurify' the water, allowing electricity to flow more easily from wire to wire. This process can become runaway, allowing more and more electric current to flow until the water does indeed become muddy, with Large particles of silver torn off the wire by the large current flow. This is not what we want, so it behooves us to limit the rate at which the current can flow down to a small consistent amount, perhaps a milliamp or only several hundred microamps. On the other hand, at first the resistance is So high that it seems to take forever to get the first few ions and particles of silver into the water, so we tend to raise the voltage (electrical pressure) on the wire initially to cause more electric current flow and get those first few into the water speedily. There are electronic circuits which can sense how much electric current is flowing, and also limit it to some preselected value; and one of the ways they manage this throttling is by controlling the electric pressure (aka voltage) allowed through them to the silver wire. All for now, hope this helps; M. On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 16:32 +0930, Neville wrote: > OK people, by George I do believe I have finally got it. I have been > digesting all of this while you were all making 'zeds' and now the > light bulb has finally lit. > > If I understood electricity better I would have seen it earlier. > > Current is high when first starting and gradually falls as production > proceeds. What is required is a 'current limiter' so that when enough > time has passed and the process gets to the current limiter > rating...that is the time to stop production. As I suggested to > someone earlier, I'm sorry but I can't remember who so no offence > meant, "voltage is just the means to an end". > > This is what stumped me on the weekend... I hooked the amp meter on > and the reading never stopped, it kept...damn, I am going to have to > check that again, but I think it kept going down. Now I understand > what is going on. I set everything up using tap water to get instant > results, or readings if you like, and the reading was changing almost > every second. I expected it to remain the same. AH HA!! If what I > have stated here is correct then........I HAVE FINALLY GOT IT SUSSED! > I didn't realise just how 'blunt' this knife was! > > No good me talking to a 'sparky' as it was all goggledeegook to me. > > I now eagerly await your awakening with the hope that you will agree > that I now know what is going on. You can't imagine my elation that I > now see how damn simple it is. DUH!! > > I needed to have it explained it in it's simplest form. Other people > I have spoken to must practice the old addage..."If you can't convince > 'em, confuse 'em". I still can't believe how simple it is, if I am > right. Jeez, how thick am I ?...alright, I'm not looking for an > answer to that! > > Neville. > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. 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