True, Trem, you should not be beating your own drum! I am not knocking you but trying to clarify for the others:
Constant current is widely used and as simple as one transistor or I.C and a resistor, like the National LM334Z and a 6.8 ohm resistor to give 10 ma DC. It is a 40 Volt device but easy to series and/or parallel. Transistors are good for many amps up to 1,200 volts.There are of course many others, all in the $1 range. Tandy even has simple booklets on making constant current circuits. I must challange you endorsement of distilled water - we have measured 100's of gallons and it is not uncommon to find 15PPM or more. Deionized water on the other hand is never over 1PPM. The difference of course is whether you make compounds of silver or a colloid of silver. Stability is product related, not water, it is very high with ions (charged particles) and very low with non-charged crystals or insoluable compounds - gravity gets them in time. The cost is the same! You may be lucky enough to find a local water supplier that both distills and deionizes afterwards. Some of the better home stills do include a deionizer after filter. Now, to correct myself, I had suggested before using a Brita deionizer filter cartridge to clean up marginal water but now find they have included a mess of fine activated charcoal (stays suspended for days) and takes a few gallons to flush out (as they suggest). The recent cartridge I bought turned 0.3PPM water into 67PPM, due to the suspended carbon particles. It took a gallon before it dropped below 5 PPM. With a suggested life of 35-40 gallons, it would treat many 100's of gallons of poorly distilled water. The carbon may not be any problem, except for generators like ours that monitor PPM and turn off automatically - I.E. a long flushing cycle before any benefit is gained. 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]>
