Hi Nenah,
I've done this very thing in the past with no noticeable effect to the
ultrasonic disc - I'm not saying there was no plating at all, just that
the thing kept on working over many many times with no discernable
degradation or change in appearance. In the past, I've adapted them for
friends, mostly blocking off part of the volume so one didn't have to
pour a quart of CS into it to get an ounce or two of the fog into the
air. For absorbing the CS into one's lungs, a towel or such over one's
head and over the humidifier works well.
The disc is actually a ceramic and is plated on both sides with a thin
coating of , I think, Aluminum which is passivated. The system works by
putting a rapidly varying voltage across the disc, which causes the disc
to vibrate. In fact, the disc is actually acting like a crystal, much
like the crystals in a radio transmitter or an electronic wristwatch but
at a Much Much lower rate, and it's actually a part of the very circuit
that causes it to oscillate, a variable resistor that changes it's
resistance as it changes it's shape. When a voltage is applied to the
disc, the disc changes shape, getting fatter, say, or bowing up or down.
This agitates the water, and a fog of water vapor rises up from the
water's surface. That's why the ultrasonic humidifiers - unlike heat
driven ones which boil the water - can fog the CS water successfully,
silver particles and all. The side of the disc you see and that is in
touch with the water is the "grounded" side, and if you look you can
also see a little prong that is immersed in the water down to a low
level, so the thing shuts off when the water (or CS) gets low, thus
protecting the ceramic disc from overheating.
All in all a pretty trick device. Same basic device is used in
removeable contact-eye-lens cleaners. If you'd like more info let me know.
Yours, Malcolm
On 8/5/2016 1:12 PM, Nenah Sylver wrote:
List,
I wanted to put colloidal silver into my humidifier, which I run at
night. However, the ultrasonic mechanism of the humidifier is a metal
disc. (I don’t know what type of metal it is.) I was wondering if the
metal might cause the silver to plate out into particulates, or affect
it adversely in some other way. Does anyone know?
Thanks in advance.
Nenah
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