First of all, you need the purest silver wire that you can find. At least 9999. Then you need some method of determining whether or not the water you are using is pure distilled water. Then you need a way to check and see if you have made an adequate strength of colloidal silver. You also need some way to determine whether or not you're done. I believe that I have designed a generator that sells for less than $30.00 and will do all this. Have a look at how it operates here:
http://www.atlasnova.com/csginst.pdf Comments are welcome.