I often thought there is no reason you cant use a stainless steel bowl or jar and have the bowl be the negative terminal and then you only need one silver electrode in the water. since the silver only comes off the positive terminal and the bowl has a negative charge it should not loose any metal to the water. having two silver electrodes and the silver only coming off one electrode seems like the negative silver electrode has no use except to conduct current
Take care, V > I always felt that someone using a wide flat anode should use two > cathodes - one on each side of the flat anode. > Dan Subject:Re: CS>>Square or round wires? > From:Ode Coyote <[email protected]> > Date:Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:02:59 -0500 > To:[email protected] > Where ion discharge is concerned, the area presented does not discharge > ions in direct proportion to the area presented. > On wide flat electrodes, the center does very little while the edges > discharge the greater proportion of the ions. It's visibly obvious that > there's a big difference while observing how electrodes wear away. > The back sides do virtually no ion discharging. > Corners and edges disappear first, corners faster than edges, till > finally you have a "U" that looks much like "V" with a rounded tip > instead of a rectangle. > The newer electroplating electrodes are made in a "D" shape with the > rounded side being the side not facing. This shortens the pathways from > the back, eliminates the secondary backside edge that a block has and > evens out the actual discharge area some. > Round shapes have no backsides, ineffective side facing flat centers, > corners or edges, except for the end.... which will sharpen with the > disproportionate discharge occurring there. > Distance counts. > The front of a round will go away a 'little' faster, [Which is why > modern electrodes aren't 'round cylinders'] but swapping their positions > between batches makes the former back the front and a piece of wire > doesn't have the front/back distance differences that a 20 pound > cylinder of copper has and the size/distance relationships aren't > linear. ie, the smaller the diameter, the less the effect.[but also less > surface area] > Bending the very tips away from each other a bit will prevent tip > erosion to a great degree..or..don't put the ends in the water in the > first place. > A round wire has ..almost.. twice the 'effective' discharge area than a > flat rectangular electrode with the same surface area. > A square wire run with flats parallel will become a rounded wire...more > "D" shaped, actually, with the rounded part facing as the leading edges > do most of the work. > Ode [ex electroplater] -- -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
