Oh good... Someone else who "might" be writing a book.
Dear Warren, Exactly what is your question? There are several independent labs that will analyze your CS for a fee. They use different equipment and different methods. Who did you send your sample to? Who else did you send a sample to? What were the results? Did you do the math? If your deadline supersedes accuracy, then maybe you should be writing a children's book instead. There are a lot of sharp people on this list that can help you if you can be little more specific. Regards, Andy From: Warren Jefferson I'm doing this book on CS and have been talking with Mike Monett about including his generator design. The one using a single 9 volt battery. Well I built one for myself to test with the instructions he turned over to public domain recently. He helped me along the way and I sent him digital photos of the progress. He thought it looked like it should. So after brewing a couple of batches I sent out two samples for testing. One reading came back as 8.36 ppm and one read 10.05 ppm or something very close to that. I don't have those reports here where I am at this evening. It has no TE and is crystal clear. So I am quite pleased with Mike's design. I plan to have it analyzed for particle and ion content as well. But Mike thought those readings were low and that maybe it wasn't such a good design after all. I know he did not want his CS analyzed for some reason and I knew he had issues with Frank and Ole Bob. But I want to feel confident about the information in the book and so felt compelled to have it tested. I really didn't want to get in the middle of this thing. I would like to keep his 9 volt design in because it is so simple and cheap with one battery and it has a long brew time, 6-8 hours. You don't have to watch it so closely as with others. And it make pretty good CS. I need to turn the book over to the publisher next week so I am in crunch time. We talked about Mike Devour's suggestion of having his own CS independently tested but he said. "Tell Mike on my behalf I have been through these battles before. It takes about three months, and it is far too brutal for the gentle inhabitants of the Silver List." He also said he disconnected from the Silver List and that he was no longer interested. You guys who know him, do you think he will come to his senses? Maybe someone should connect with him. Warren
