Nice writeup Mike. Dan
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 9:23 AM, M.G. Devour <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi gang, > > I've written up a rough draft of a book review to post here: > > > http://www.amazon.com/Colloidal-Silver-Antibiotic-Johnny-Silverseed/dp/0970825609 > > ...that touches on what I think are the most important issues. I'd > appreciate any comments or suggestions. > > Most important, I'd like those of you who've been hacking this process > more recently than I have to vet the designs I suggest, as I haven't > tested these. Are the resistor values in the ballpark given what I claim > to be wanting to do? > > Thanks! > > Be well, > > Mike D. > > >>>>> > > Some of the central ideas in this book are seriously dated. > > The most important thing to understand is that people who know "CS" have > moved away from ALL recipes that incorporate "a pinch of salt" or some > kind of brine or other solution as a "starter" to get the reaction > going, and any reference to "ppm per minute" or color as a way to > estimate ppm. While I wouldn't hesitate to use such CS on a short term > basis, as an emergency or field expedient measure, for example, these > recipes pose too much of a risk of argyria for routine, long-term or > heavy use. > > Current best practice for a basic generator is to use very low current > over a number of hours to create a clear, colorless product that's > largely ionic, with a colloidal portion whose particles are too small to > create visible color. The result is versatile, stable, effective, and > far safer than what you get from the old recipes and designs. > > The simplest generator you can build to do this adds only one component > to the old-style basic design; you add a simple resistor in series with > one of the electrodes to limit current. If you use a single 9V battery, > about a 15K ohm resistor works. For 27V about 50K ohms will do. Using > the phone line, which puts out 50V except when it's ringing, use around > 100K ohms. > > My target with these numbers is a design that will top out at about .5 > milliamps when the solution is saturated, and take upwards of 12 hours > to make a quart (or liter) of a decent quality 5 to 15 ppm from pure > distilled water. Just set it up and let it run overnight or until you > just start to see a beard of gray "fluff" forming on the negative > electrode. > > As for the idea of a phone-line powered generator, it's clever, and > there's nothing technically wrong with the concept. Taking a half of a > milliamp of current from the line is far less than what the phone > company is already prepared to source for lots of standard telephone > equipment. For those who still have a landline, it's certainly > practical. I'll leave the ethics of the situation to your own > discernment. > > There are a number of vendors selling nicely made generators with > additional features like more clever current limiting, polarity > switching for efficiency and to keep the electrodes clean, automatic > shutoff, and even stirring. Just steer clear of any that talk about > making a batch in only a few minutes, adding any kind of salt or other > starter to get the reaction going, bubbles or visible clouds of > particles forming at the electrodes, or that quote some "ppm per minute" > figure. They're the old style, and the product they make is much less > safe than what you ought to be looking for. > > Best of luck. > > Mike > > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org > > Unsubscribe: > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > > Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:[email protected]> > List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:[email protected]> > > >
