This "meter discussion" is getting a little wild! I waited 24 hours, to cool down, so here is my "calm" reply!
You have a need to meter "to know what the hell you are drinking"! Slamming anything but a back yard modified multimeter (which the "educated" admit means almost nothing to them) is not a lucid discussion or of any benefit to anyone! And since when did science become unable to measure the PPM of colloidal silver - did the presence of ions, dissolved solids, etc. cease effecting conductivity? To be technical, PPM is a stupid measure of "PPM by weight", and why so many false claims are not false - it is a measure by weight! Drop a dime in your jar and you got 50PPM, no battery, no wires no magic - parts by weight! That is why it is important to measure TDS (total dissolved solids) - now, don't try to tell me an ion of silver is not a solid (not dissolved, but certainly a solid and effects the conductivity)! By the way, lets get one thing clear - most of you are not making a colloid of silver! Use lousy water and you make compounds of silver! These are dissolved, absolutely not a colloid!!! Yes, the Hanna TDS-1 and its knockoff are of small technical value! But, wouldn't it be nice to dip it in and see if your distilled water is really as bad as you can get and all you can make is large molecule silver compounds? We do remember that the smallest silver particle is the ion and if your water is pure it stays as a free ion in the water - the most reactive form of silver, the most bio-available and the most stable (like charges repel - they can not join together!). Sure, if you use a back yard battery project, you may be making silver crystals! It is very simple though, if the water is good and you got color, you got crystals! If the water is lousy, you get color and compounds of silver - no free ions (sob) and no crystals (great) but no potentency against most virus (oops)! That brings up the heated blasts of it "being a ripoff if it costs over $40". Well, may God be kind if your health has a value limit of $40! Some Facts: A TDS-1 meter (Hanna or knockoff) has a range of 0-999 PPM and an accuracy of +-2% or +-20PPM. Pretty useless to measure or certify 5PPM. They also need a correction for the microseimens/PPM conversion, as calibration is usually based on CACO3 with 2us/cm equal to 1PPM while colloidal silver uses 1.6us/cm equal to 1PPM. (An introduced error of 20%, but if all you make are silver compounds it will be pretty close)! A smarter choice is the pure water tester with a range of 0-99 us/cm (0-61PPM) or worse case error of +-2us/cm (1.2PPM). About $50 but sadly, that may be a ripoff to most ears out there! You are a great person because you give away gallons of your sludge?? Just who are you helping - your saving grace is that any form of silver has some benefits. If you wish to be technically correct and accurate you must buy the 4 ring potentiometric type for about $140, but then that is surely a "ripoff" because it is over $40. Damn the body, save the pennies! Pissed, Yes! What is the benefit of using a freely provided forum, designed to educate and help those interested in their health, if it becomes the soap box for hate! I checked the "Hanna knockoff" site and see nothing wrong and in fact if their claim of "temperature compensated" refers to the solution under test, they have the best bargain I have seen this month. I hope they go after anyone that tries to slander them! By the way, I have no relationship with Hanna or their "ripoff?", but I do sell a colloidal silver generator which is "my ripoff at $295", but it includes a built-in PPM meter (TDS) and other features no other units have! The funny thing is that many customers come back and buy more units - is that a double rippoff? Cordially, Fred Peschel -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
