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As mentioned in my blog, I am going to reverse my current Dinamed CBD Kush with colloidal silver. After an initial attempt with a small voltage supply, which I fried, I found myself without the hardware, but an imminent need for CS.
So, back to the drawing board I went. Here is what I came up with, in schematic form (don't laugh too hard now
):
The power source is the battery from my rechargeable drill/driver set. I used 12 volts, anything from 9 to 24 or so would also work fine.
My multimeter is a cheapie I have had for years, any meter that will read in milliamps will suffice. Exactly how to connect for measuring small amperage varies between meters, but pay attention because the low amperage circuit is fused and limited to small amperages, usually something ~200-400 ma. And the fuses are not easily found if you fry them.
The liter jar with the silver wire is the standard setup, lots of ways to do it, details not important here.
The tricky bit with this setup is the large plastic jar with water in it. Any non-conductive container will do, just as long as you can get the wires at least ~~3 inches or so apart. The water in the jar is used as a variable resistor which can be adjusted to attain the ~1 milliamp current ideal for producing colloidal silver. Adjustment of current is achieved by changing the amount of wire immersed in the water, and/or the distance between the wires - deeper immersion or closer spacing = more current. This is easily done if the wires are clipped to the side of the container with paper clips like the ones in the pic below. I used my irrigation water at about 50EC but any tap water would likely do the job straight out of the tap. If conductivity turns out to be too high, start with distilled or RO, and add just enough tap water if needed to allow easy adjustment of milliamps. In my final setup, the wires in the water were small gauge steel immersed about an inch into the water, and about three inches apart. This was just wire I had hanging around, pretty much any bare wire would do.
To operate the setup, I adjusted the depth of immersion to get ~1 ma, and periodically reduced immersion to get amperage back to 1 ma. The key here is that as silver builds up in the solution, conductivity and amperage gradually rise. If you let the amperage get too high, the size of silver particles produced goes up and effectiveness of the end solution goes down. So, you need to adjust the wires periodically to keep the amperage in target range. I found that starting at ~0.9 ma allowed me to re-adjust after a couple hours. The CS solution was done in about 8 hours.
Here is what the rig looked like in operation, absent the water and CS solution:
And here is my fresh jar of CS:
And may the laughter subside before ribs are damaged.
Fire away with questions if interested in this mischief.
Happy CSing peeps.
A few of you will notice that this is a slightly abbreviated version of the same stuff in my blog. Sort of a test to compare the amount of attention each location generates.
So, back to the drawing board I went. Here is what I came up with, in schematic form (don't laugh too hard now
):The power source is the battery from my rechargeable drill/driver set. I used 12 volts, anything from 9 to 24 or so would also work fine.
My multimeter is a cheapie I have had for years, any meter that will read in milliamps will suffice. Exactly how to connect for measuring small amperage varies between meters, but pay attention because the low amperage circuit is fused and limited to small amperages, usually something ~200-400 ma. And the fuses are not easily found if you fry them.
The liter jar with the silver wire is the standard setup, lots of ways to do it, details not important here.
The tricky bit with this setup is the large plastic jar with water in it. Any non-conductive container will do, just as long as you can get the wires at least ~~3 inches or so apart. The water in the jar is used as a variable resistor which can be adjusted to attain the ~1 milliamp current ideal for producing colloidal silver. Adjustment of current is achieved by changing the amount of wire immersed in the water, and/or the distance between the wires - deeper immersion or closer spacing = more current. This is easily done if the wires are clipped to the side of the container with paper clips like the ones in the pic below. I used my irrigation water at about 50EC but any tap water would likely do the job straight out of the tap. If conductivity turns out to be too high, start with distilled or RO, and add just enough tap water if needed to allow easy adjustment of milliamps. In my final setup, the wires in the water were small gauge steel immersed about an inch into the water, and about three inches apart. This was just wire I had hanging around, pretty much any bare wire would do.
To operate the setup, I adjusted the depth of immersion to get ~1 ma, and periodically reduced immersion to get amperage back to 1 ma. The key here is that as silver builds up in the solution, conductivity and amperage gradually rise. If you let the amperage get too high, the size of silver particles produced goes up and effectiveness of the end solution goes down. So, you need to adjust the wires periodically to keep the amperage in target range. I found that starting at ~0.9 ma allowed me to re-adjust after a couple hours. The CS solution was done in about 8 hours.
Here is what the rig looked like in operation, absent the water and CS solution:
And here is my fresh jar of CS:
And may the laughter subside before ribs are damaged.
Fire away with questions if interested in this mischief.
Happy CSing peeps.
A few of you will notice that this is a slightly abbreviated version of the same stuff in my blog. Sort of a test to compare the amount of attention each location generates.
