In order to get any sort of a handle on this you will probably have to determine the water flow rate in gallons per minute (or second). This will allow you to know how much current (current is proportional to the number of silver ions that are being put into the water) you need and you can then play with voltages and electrode lengths in order to achieve this electrolysis rate. You can also calculate how much silver will be used up per unit time. Remember, ppb may be effective but I can't say what concentration is required. The mink are a fraction of human size.
If you can determine when the mink drink water, you can turn the CS maker off when they are not likely to be drinking. For instance, if you can determine that each mink is likely to drink between 5 and 7 am and 6 to 8 pm, you could run it only during that time Very interesting problem, please keep us posted. Dan -----Original Message----- From: Terry Chamberlin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: CS>Mink ranch CS Dan said, > Water flowing through a tube or pipe, where the pipe is the ground potential and a silver wire suspended in the center of the pipe is at a positive potential would allow CS to be made continuously as long as water was flowing. The drinking water should already have relatively high conductivity and if the electrodes are close together it wouldn't necessarily take much voltage to get a high enough current flow. The "Cell" could be made as long as necessary. I'm not 100% sure of the safety of this..< The mink ranch fellow just left my house. I read him some of your post, and we discussed it. My concern about making silver in continuously flowing water is how fast the silver would be used up. Having to replace silver electrodes each week would be impractical and expensive. The water flows non-stop night and day. The animals drink from nipples set into the pipes running past their cages. The water must continually flow because, during Nova Scotia winters, it would freeze if it didn't. There is no drinking water 'tank'. The water flows in from one water inlet but diverges to 37 buildings to supply 12,500 animals. So the silver would need to be added to the water right at the beginning. It seems more practical to brew the water as it flows into the big plastic tank, just before being mixed with the food. This is a 160-gallon tank for the food preparation process, not drinking water. The tank is in a heated building, and is filled and used each day. Right now, the man is brewing 10 gallons of CS at a time with one of my 10-gallon devices and pouring it into the 160-gallon tank. I have recommended he brew each batch for 30 minutes since he is using tap water. 160 gallons per day of DW would be impossible to acquire, even if it wasn't expensive. He has an employee who is responsible to brew 10 gallons for 30 minutes, pour it into the holding tank, brew another batch, again and again repeatedly all day. This puts about 140-150 gallons of tap-water CS into his tank per day to be mixed with dry food (it makes a wet mash). This will work for awhile, but, using tap water means the 14-guage wires will dissolve pretty fast. He has just started doing this, in fact just starting today, so he doesn't know what benefit his animals will receive. To inject silver into the constantly-flowing water, I envision using a silver rod about the length and thickness of a pencil, suspended within a metal section of pipe (probably stainless steel) the width of a garden hose, or a bit wider. The water would flow through as fast as it could, which makes me think maybe 110VDC would be needed. It's only this 12"-14" section of pipe/hose that would be made of metal, the rest is rubber/plastic. It could be insulated to prevent inadvertent shocks. The metal pipe would be grounded, and everything would be insulated. I even suggested, if we installed something like the previous paragraph, that he turn it on only during the day, since the animals mostly sleep at night. Comments and suggestions are very welcome. Terry Chamberlin -- 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] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
