Frivolous At Heart

I started out with a gallon of distilled water. This is just a test. I’ll make it’s more presentable and user friendly with the completed product. 12 volts @ 1.8a. I set it for 30 minutes. Lets see with my PPM tester how it comes out!!! Nothing!

Colloidal silver that is clear or with high PPM is most likely ionic and not TRUE colloidal silver as stated by Silverlungs. These solutions are generally bought from Amazon and the likes. Ionic CS conducts electricity and you don’t want that. True CS are for chloride-rich environments such as our stomach and blood whereas ionic CS isn’t.

EDIT: 09-15-12
My first batch came out yellow. Still good to use internally or externally but I will use it externally exclusively. 5ppm @ 12 volts @ 1.8a. It has a lot of black residue on the silver rods. This came from the high current and the placement of the rods (1.5″ apart from each other).  I wont be using this setup anymore.

I have a lot of learning ahead of me. CS generation has many different ways to achieve the same result and it’s quite confusing. Based on my reading, there are dozens of recipes to cook CS. I’m so confused. Isn’t there a scientific procedure backed by multiple studies on the correct and most efficient way to cook CS?

I have come to a conclusion that (by digging very deep) cooking CS requires low current (anything under 500mah). There are CS generators that daisy chain 9volt batteries to end up with 36volts but still having  the same 500mah (output of 9volt batteries roughly). Others swear using 9 or 12 volts is adequate (30yrs experience). AtlasNova, from what I deduced, uses high current on their 1 gallon generator (47 volts) yet only uses a fraction of a milliamp current output (500-600 microamps ie 0.5-0.6milliamps). I like these guys because they use low current to make quality CS.

My thoughts? Fudge! Test 2 with 9.22 volts @ 844mah output. I further reduced the output with a 1.5k resistor. So 9.22volts / 1500 ohm = 0.0062 amps ~ 6.2ma. That’s as close to 1 ma I can get so I’m going to use this and test by making a batch to see the results the following night.

This Image displays the alligator clips I soldered to a female 5.5mm x 2.1mm connector so as to avoid splicing into my power brick. Came out nice and clean. Just the way I like it. I had to go get my tools I let a friend borrow. He lost a few screw heads and two allen wrenches out of a set. I shouldn’t have let him borrow my tools because he is irresponsible.

EDIT: 09-16-12

This is after 17 hours. The build up of the sludge is interesting. What’s more interesting is that the water has not turned yellow and I have 4PPM CS. That’s amazing! I’m making quality CS with low current! I’m going to build a magnetic stirring device to circulate the water and hopefully prevent the sludge build up.

After 24 hr cooking the CS, I have achieved 5PPM. That is roughly 10-12.5PPM because the measuring instrument is calibrated for sodium. There is a difference in color on both batches. The first picture shows the first cook i’v ever made. The second picture shows the second cook. The second cook has higher PPM and is a lot lighter in color. That shows lesser current cooks better quality CS. I’ll cook another later and finish up my contraption.

What’s the difference between LVDC and HVAC Colloidal Silver? (Mountainwellbeing)
LVDC stands for “low voltage direct current” and HVAC stands for “high voltage alternating current.”  There are claims that one is better than the other.  The truth is they are both good, but the difference is in the polarization.  LVDC produced silver particles and ions have a natural (positive and negative) charge just like our bodies, and are absorbed and utilized more effectively than the artificial charge of HVAC produced particles.

Got the itch plus I was bored. Up in Pennsylvania visiting the girlfriend and didn’t feel very secure without a deadbolt. So I installed one.

Made this potty for pepper. She can go outside by herself – she’s an inside doggy.

Updated 06/30/2012. It’s raised up for better drainage. Works great!

My weekend wasn’t very cool. It was HOT. My neighbor below me was either cooking or spilled gas in their garage and my AC unit was sucking air in from the garage and into my house. I do not know why or how these complexes passed inspection but fresh air from OUTSIDE and inside your home should be mixed into your your AC unit and circulated into your home. They didn’t have that. The complex had air sucked in from the ceiling and any open crevices available. I thought I had a freon leak so I turned my AC unit off for the entire memorial weekend. OMG it was so HOT. Next time I’ll call management and if that doesn’t work, I’ll have to call the popos.

My Freezer does not come with racks. Odd isn’t it? I stash my frozens all over the place and come to needing something, IDK where the heck everything is at inside the box? My solution?

I have finally downloaded the facebook app for my Palm Pre. Been waiting for more than a yr though I haven’t really periodically checked to see if there was an app for it. Tonight I did. Downloaded and now I’m just loving it. I don’t use it much. I only use it to bug the gf 😉

My battery door for the pre busted too.. 20USD later and now I have a new battery door. Feels like a new phone now. I don’t have to worry that the battery will fall loose and kill my phone mid convo! Don’t know why I never got a replacement until this very time gRRR! I’m a happy camper now!!! Flying out tomorrow morning!

I’m five minutes from school. I love the fact that I can sleep in a little and if I do wake late, I could take a superman shower and head to school and not even be late 😉 Rent’s a little higher b/c I have a garage but hey, who gives a rat’s booty 😉

Came home a little early to setup the new home to my likings. I finally have some free time to write on my journal. I wish I could update this more but school is a little hectic and life passes by so fast. I can’t even finish my coffee at times let alone blog!

I’m so happy for the new semester I’m going to hit the ground running once it starts!

I made a frame for my generator today. Started but not finished. I only framed up the bottome portion of the cage and put wheels on it. I’ll finish when I have time. I drilled holes to mount the generator and I fudged one hole (2mm deviation). I’ll fix that later as well.

I really need a work table… Too bad the garage is darn small!!!

Here the brackets for the 1/2 bolt for the wheels are seen welded onto the frame.

The wheels are installed as shown for mock up purposes. It’s much easier to move around already!

I needed to clean off my generator I purchased and I wanted to sit it on the Oil Catch Pan I use to collect my used oil for recycling. Only problem is that the generator weighs a ton compared to the oil pan which is made of plastic. So I made a brace over the oil plan to allow things to be set right on top of the pan and drip right into it. Did some quick welding and used the band saw to cut out some steel 🙂

I recently purchased this generator off of some guy who had it sat for 1yr. He said all it needed was gas. I brought it home, cleaned it a bit, did some research and found out that it’s discontinued (like most things anyhow). I can’t complain for 50USD. It starts up fine and does produce AC. I need to work on the engine a little and build a mounting frame and put some wheels on it later on.

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