It should take AT LEAST 6 hours to do a quart or the water isn't good enough. Some contaminants in water can kick off reactions with the silver or become involved with the silver until it gets used up. If it's doing that, time can actually increase as the results aren't conductive and won't contribute to the Auto Off triggering...but the water may actually appear grey with a very heavy TE. [Tyndall Effect]
TE is always a variable...it's not a result of what the 'generator' is doing, but relates to what is happening AFTER the gen does its thing in the environment it's working in. The 'generator' makes ions and nothing BUT ions..and you can't see ions at all. ..and it's the ions that do most of the 'work' the fastest. Even with a heavy TE, at least 85% of the silver content is still ionic...so..TE isn't much of anything to worry about. The yellow color is due to the oxidation of some of the ions. Some water contaminants can kick that reaction into play..with no way to tell 'what' is in water. The stronger you make the EIS, the more sensitive to stray reactions it becomes. Silver Oxide suspended in the water is harmless...unsightly, but harmless. With the variances in water,"normal' covers a fairly wide piece of territory. Want something different?...change the water. Adding not more than 2 or 3 Drops of 3% Hydrogen Peroxide per Quart to the water when the Yellow LED starts blinking and letting the generator run longer will increase the Colloidal [vs Ionic] Content [Do not reset/unplug the generator when doing this as you will now be making non conductive colloids that meters and the generator cannot detect and it may not ever turn itself off ...or enter programmed mode. ] Even a trace of H2O2 changes EVERYTHNG…let jar completely dry between batches. Ode On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 9:12 AM PT Ferrance <[email protected]> wrote: > If I start with some eis already in the jar when I fill it with distilled > water 2-3 hours. If I start with straight distilled then longer... maybe 5 > or 6? Your equipment is so reliable I kind of set it and forget it for a > bit and haven't kept track of times in quite awhile. > > The interesting thing, to me, is that when I dry off the rods now they > leave no black residue on the paper towel. They used to leave black > marks. Is there anything that needs to be done to them to remove the white > patina (sort of) on them? > > The Tyndall line used to be fine and tight and now it is wider and fuzzy. > > Thanks. > PT > > . > > > On Monday, July 20, 2020, 07:12:49 AM EDT, Ode Coyote < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > How long is it taking to run a 10 PPM batch? > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 10:46 AM PT Ferrance <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, Lately I've noticed that when I clean my rods with a paper towel > nothing comes off of them. Also no black speckles in the eis and no light > yellow color. Laser shows a wider line and can almost see speckles in the > line... not the nice tight line I used to get from my silver puppy. > > Any ideas how to get things back to normal? > Thanks. > PT > >
