Hi.
I am trying to figure out the best, cheapest setup I can do. I bought from America a cheap system which is essentially instructions and a couple crocodile leads with a 10k resistor fitted inline with the positive lead. Instructions say clip three 9v batteries in series and connect the negative to the stainless steel bowl and the positive to the silver which you dangle into the bowl but ensuring it is suspended and not touching the bowl. Great, I have that down. But all it does is make clear ionic it seems with perhaps some colloidal. I have added some Golden Syrup as suggested here and elsewhere and it is still clear. Slightly hazy but relatively clear with no discernable colour. I have ordered some Sodium Carbonate which I should receive tomorrow. My hope is in the meantime that adding some of this to my first batch will make the colour go yellow. I already saw it go yellow after failed attempts to get the ph higher with other things and when I dumped it in a waste glass of water and who knows what else POOF it went yellow, so my hope is I should get yellow when I add some Sodium Carbonate?!
But, is there a better cheaper or faster system to more accurately make it? Currently I am taking their 1-1.5 gallon at 48 hours and calculating down for my lower volume 2L steel bowl, so it's taking about 21 hours when full or about 13 hours if I am making 1.25L
If you have any info on the basics of a better setup which is faster but yields good quality genuine colloidal silver, I would be very interested. I keep seeing people soldering something-something-ometers and altering things and I just get lost. People say fast is bad, slower and more time consuming yields better but then I saw something here which made it seem fast. My head just spins with all the seemingly conflicting information all over the web. Any clarification would be helpful. Thanks.