Here's a couple of comparison figures in three meters I dug up from my notes:
 
HM Digital Com100EC/TDS/TEMP...KCluS13.5, HM Digital ComTDS3...006ppm, 
HannaTDS1...007ppm


HM Digital Com100EC/TDS/TEMP...KCluS12.3, HM Digital ComTDS3...006ppm, 
HannaTDS1...007ppm

 

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> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:48:39 -0400
> To: [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: CS>Getting Started
> 
> 
> 
> HM Digital makes a decent PPM meter [TDS3] ..but a PPM meter isn't what 
> you want...they are designed to meter "salt water" and silver water isn't 
> salt water.
> Looks like this one is on the low end of their line.
> A PPM meter is useful for CS ...but not very.
> 
> Try an HM Digital EC3
> http://cgi.ebay.com/HM-Digital-EC-3-Temp-Water-Conductivity-Tester-Meter_W0QQitemZ220494392013QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item33567d6acd
> 
> or COM-100
> 
> Ode
> 
> 
> At 04:15 PM 10/20/2009 -0700, you wrote:
> ><http://cgi.ebay.com/HM-Digital-TDS-EZ-Meter-Tester-Water-ppm-Purity-Filter_W0QQitemZ270411724544QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ef5cb7700>http://cgi.ebay.com/HM-Digital-TDS-EZ-Meter-Tester-Water-ppm-Purity-Filter_W0QQitemZ270411724544QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ef5cb7700
> >
> >
> >From: Jeff Maahs <[email protected]>
> >To: [email protected]
> >Sent: Tue, October 20, 2009 7:18:20 AM
> >Subject: Re: CS>Getting Started
> >
> >It looks like EC meters are much less expensive than what I had seen 
> >previously. One of the sites given to me earlier had a meter but it was 
> >well over $100.
> >
> >I hate to be a pain but would a meter such as this one on ebay 
> >(http://tinyurl.com/yzzzvbn) be appropriate for these solutions?
> >
> >Jeff
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >From: Ode Coyote <[email protected]>
> >To: [email protected]
> >Sent: Tue, October 20, 2009 6:56:17 AM
> >Subject: Re: CS>Getting Started
> >
> >
> >
> > You can use a voltmeter to tell when to stop, but only on a given setup
> >that's always the same as referenced by an EC meter.
> >Current, electrode spacing and surface exposure have to be constants for
> >voltage to tell you anything.
> > In *making* CS, the voltage is nearly irrelevant, so it needn't be a
> >constant.
> >
> > A PPM meter is an EC meter that dilutes the info it gets to suit "salt
> >water".
> >
> >Ode
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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