Well I let mine brew for about 10 hours yesterday and it turned a black mucky water color. I let it sit over night and the black stuff mostly separated from the rest of the water. Idk if I got too many volts or what. My silver is 99.999% idk what's up with it
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Are you cleaning the wires off every hour or two? I do.
I get some black crud settled on the bottom but the CS is pretty much clear and just pour it off.
I get some black crud settled on the bottom but the CS is pretty much clear and just pour it off.
I let mine CS go for about 24-36 hours usually, but I use a very low current DC converter. I wipe the silver plates a couple times, with paper towel, it turns a golden color with no visible chunks to the eyes and usually measures around 20ppm when done.
Keep it under 9 volts, 6 volts seems to work best. ma doesn't matter but lower voltage seems to make smaller silver ions and thats what you want. 8-16hrs should do it, or if you have a ppm meter, 30 or more ppms is good. also the silver needs to be very pure .99.99% is whats needed
Also more surface area of the silver allows for smaller ions to be created. I purchased 1oz of silver plate, I forget which gauge, but its thick enough to be substantial, but thin enough to cut easily with a wire cutter. I cut it in half and bent the ends to hold it over the sides of a glass canning jar. Cost me about $50 shipped and should last a few lifetimes.
Just found this thread, great post!
Thanks Brother !
appreciate it and your input as well.
Well, because your thread has revived interest in this, I'll post a link to bob's thread here, The Definitive Colloidal Silver Tutorial. Its well worth a read, even if your already making it.
https://www.autoflower.org/f117/definitive-colloidal-silver-tutorial-9878.html
https://www.autoflower.org/f117/definitive-colloidal-silver-tutorial-9878.html
make it in a dark room, light degrades the silver quite fast, its the only way we have come across a dark solution, be it during the making of it or while being stored
clear is what you want, even though some people claim a yellowish colour works, all testing we have done points to it turning yellowish once the colloids are too big, and the yellow stuff burns plants far easier, actually we have never burnt a plant with clear c.s.
as mentioned in the link pop posted "You simply cannot expect the same results with a silver bar for example as it's surface
area is far greater and the results will not be the same as the wire"
it doesnt say exactly why i dont think ? but ive read online from chemists or w/e the reasoning behind it and it makes perfect sense why not to use a larger surface area, if memory serves me right i believe it is that a larger surface allows for larger particles or colloids to strip away, makes sense when i think about it
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ah ha, 2 + 2
you mention yours is a gold colour (would be the yellow i mention) and you mention using silver with a larger surface area, which is just one of the things i credit with producing larger colloids, and larger colloids being what causes the discolouration
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