Your hanging the wires over the jar could be the reason you see them wear out so fast in strange places. I would never hang them over the jar, they can make the jar a conductor.
Put a plastic lid on the glass jar, drill 2 holes a little bigger than the size of your Silver wire, 2 inches apart put the wire through the holes with a bend at the top so they do not fall through, do not let them touch the bottom of jar. Good luck. You can do the same thing with flat strips of Silver. Tel Tofflemire Dewey, AZ. ________________________________ From: MaryAnn Helland <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, April 27, 2010 8:12:42 AM Subject: CS>An odd thing happened........... I need someone here to explain to me how this happened, please. I use a Colloid Master to make my CS, always set on brew #3, and I always get a nice clear product that reads 8 to 10 ppm on my Hanna Tester. I brew in a quart jar, no stirrer, using 6" half-inch-wide pair of electrodes hooked over the top edge of the jar. As time goes by, these electrodes wear away in the center -- leaving a nearly untouched span of silver at both ends -- top end where it's out of the water, and bottom end where it's suspended in the water. I have been thinking what a waste of silver this was -- so yesterday I decided to try something. I folded the electrodes up, so that the wide ends covered the narrow centers -- thus shortening the electrodes by about a third, but placing wide bars where the narrow bars usually are. Does this make sense? OK -- the generator was still set at #3, I used a quart of distilled water from a gallon from which I had used a quart the day before, turned the unit on and let it go. It brewed in the same period of time as always. But when I tested the water, after the unit had turned itself off (because I wondered if I would get a lower ppm-level) -- I got a whopping 29.6 ppm reading on my Hanna tester. I thought perhaps I was getting an incorrect reading at the top of the jar, so I stirred it all up and retested -- same high reading. I let the brew sit overnight to see if it would change -- it didn't. This morning I had to dilute it with distilled water in order to get it down to the 10-ppm level that I prefer. The good news is that one brewing created three quarts of 10-ppm CS, rather than the usual one quart. But why did this happen?? Can anyone enlighten me? MA
