My hole is right on edge I do not always fill water to the silver wire, when I do not have a problem. I have a Love distiller that I use but I only put in 3 instead of 4 quarts water. If I fill more it seems to boil some of the minerals into the condenser on top. No build up I have a unit that switches Polarity every 60 seconds. I basically never clean any thing, I just filter the CS through 3 brown coffee filter papers. I also have several home made generators using a low voltage DC source and a Current limiting Diode (around 1 Mill amp). On these I just wipe off silver and still run through the filters. The thing about small DC power sources are I have a 9 Volt that puts out close to 24 volts DC at 1 Mill Amp draw. When you look at rating on power supply the voltage rating is at the Listed current draw. Less draw means higher voltage. Been looking for a 24 volt DC at around 1000 Mill amps to see how high the voltage is. These are the cheap powers supply not all will spike real high. The current limiters are just 2 to 4 dollars and the powers supplies are available all over for a few bucks, sometimes less than a dollar at Flea Markets, or swap meets. For $5 you can build a CS generator with current control. It is interesting to watch using a volt meter as coins are moved closer together the voltage goes down to limit current to rating on limiters. As you move silver apart voltage goes up. The max voltage is at no flow, but 1 mill amp is so little current the voltage drops vary little. The 9 volt power supply I have puts out close to 24 volts at 1 mill amp and is only around 1 volt or less higher at no current flow ( by no current flow I meant just the meter between wire ends). Some day I will have to sit down and draw how to connect up a current limiter and make a less than $5 CS generator. I bought a couple Dozen of current limiters in various sizes .5 to 1.5 Mill amps just to have around for emergencies or some that wants a cheap generator. Bob
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