Dear Mike D: I wonder if you could involve some of the experts in this discussion. I have made some experiments using a "WAND" type of CS generator in tap water. What seems to happen is that a black film forms on the walls of the glass and a brown sludge collects on the silver electrodes.
This reminds me of some of the posts a while back of a water purifier using stainless steel plates and a 12 volt battery. The question I have is this a good thing? It could be "good" in that "stuff" is being precipitated out of what looked like "clean" water. Or is it bad in that the silver ions are re-plating on the mineral content of the water? What are the pro and cons here? For reference I will state the details of my generator design: Voltage source is two AA batteries giving 3 volts with a 4.7 K series resistor providing current limiting. Two #12 silver wires are attached to the battery box and spaced 2.25 inches to fit into a quart mason jar. The positive pole is 4.5 inches long with about 3.5 inch immersion. The negative pole is 7 inches long, insulated with a 4 inch long Teflon sleeving giving about 2 inches of immersion. The sleeving is to make the current path longer. This design has the feature of being self limiting in CS concentration. Starting with DW of less than 2 uS, the first 24 hours produces a 5 PPM CS concentration, the second day it is 15 PPM, the third day is less than 20 PPM. It seems that the CS solution saturates and additional days it just re-plates back on the negative pole. If you let it run for many days the normally "clear" solution becomes slightly pale yellow. My measurement tool is the Hanna PWT and a laser. I have not "corrected" the readings of the PWT. Someone on the list sometime back stated that the CS saturation is 15 PPM. I do not know if this is ionic, particle or what? From reports I get and my own use it seems to work very well. I am not actively marketing this device. I have sold a few to friends and by word of mouth. I would be happy to share the information with anyone interested in making their own. Any comments would be welcome. Juergen P. (Jim) Meissner Check out my Website at www.MeissnerResearch.com Read about the benefits of the Brain State Synchronizer sounds for improving your life and health. ----- Original Message ----- From: M. G. Devour <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 10:58 PM Subject: Re: CS>Re: buying cs instead of making it... > > In article <005701c24e48$12bc0900$d90e3...@home>, > > "MARIANO DELISE" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >How would you make a battery operated silver wand? > > I bet you could get by with only a few volts from some AA or AAA size > batteries, or even some button cells... Maybe an N-size? > > Remember, the you're talking about germ-killing in plain tap water, > rainwater, streamwater or whatever. It's already quite conductive, and > it will only take a few *seconds* for enough silver ions to come off > the "wand" to effectively generate a few ppm of silver in the water. > The voltage needed for that would be quite low. > > You'd probably put in a small series resistor to protect the batteries > a little and set a reasonable maximum current. > > Don't know how well it'd work, but would be a simple concept to try. > > > I'd probably cobble together two or three 9v batteries into a handle > > holding a couple pieces of heavy gauge .999 or .9999 silver wire. The > > wires would be stirred in a glass of tap water to disinfect it with > > silver. Let it sit a bit to allow critters to be killed, then drink. > > > > With a little experimentation and analysis one should be able to find > > a suitable combo of electrode spacing and number of batteries to make > > an effective unit. > > Be well, > > Mike D. > [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] > [[email protected] ] > [Speaking only for myself... ] > > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
