I'm sending this again as it doesn't seem to have appeared. dee Begin forwarded message:
> From: Dorothy Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> > Date: 23 November 2009 13:10:16 GMT > To: "Peter Converse" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: CS>tyndall again > > Well, I think it is a bit far for Ode to travel Peter (although he is very > welcome <lol>) but I think I do things pretty much the same all the time. > I clean the distiller with tap water and a plastic scrubby thing and then let > it dry. The brewing jars I don't clean except if they look a bit yellowy and > then I scrub them out with a pad and then rinse with DW. I just clean the > electrodes with kitchen paper after each use and keep them in the little bag > Ode sent them in. Water temperature is whatever the room temp is. > I have never had a problem with the brewing jars (which are glass) until I > put in the first batch of my own DW, which read 000 on the TDS, which went > yellow. Subsequent batches have stayed clear though, so there must have been > something 'got in' this first one. > The second lot of DW I made, I had run through a Brita filter first, but this > had a reading of 002 and when I double distilled it went to 003 but then back > to 002. > However, when I made CS with this batch it remained clear! > The third lot of DW which *wasn't* run through the Brita filter, reads 000 > but I haven't yet made any CS with that so don't know how that will turn out. > In conclusion, I think that something literally 'out of the air' must have > caused the yellowing and I shall not worry further about it, as everything > seems ok now. > Thank you for your interest Peter, and by the way, I don't think there is > much time left for me to become older and wiser, but, you never know! dee > > > On 22 Nov 2009, at 21:50, Peter Converse wrote: > >> Hi Dorothy, >> >> Is your distiller stable now in its cleanliness and test-proven TDS readings >> and is it producing water in a reliably consistent manner repeatedly? >> >> Are you using the same CS production jar/vessel and is it in the same state >> each time you generate your CS or is this a variable as well? >> >> Are you cleaning the electrodes (or not)...whichever this is...are you doing >> this or not doing this consistently? >> >
