Hummm ...
I guess I started with the 1-1-1 but had build up on the (neg) cathode and you suggested using cinnamon extract. So perhaps I bastardized one of your formulas but here is what I have been using:
1000 ml distilled water
250 mg sodium citrate
167 mg sale
drop of karo
4-5 ml cinnamon extract
my run time is 150 mins @ 46 volts which prob is 480 ma
produces a nice dark red
What do you think?
regulator carbo gain be substituted in that formula and do you see any problems with what I am doing?
LK
Nope, there is nothing harmful there, and if works better, thats great. The salt content determines the maximim ppm you can get for your gold. Once the salt is used up, you are just electrolyzing the the cinnamon, citrate, and sugars. There would be no harm in substituting maltodextrin for the karo syrup.
The basic substitution would be malto = 18 times the weight of the dry weight of the glucose/fructose in the karo syrup. But we do not know how much glucose/fructose is in one drop of Karo.
So we have to be sneaky and approach the problem through the back door.
We know that sugars have about 4 calories of energy per gram.
We know from the label that 1 tablespoon of Karo has 65 calories.
So we can conclude that a tablespoon of Karo has 16 grams of sugars roughly.
Since a tbsp is 15ml, then a ml of Karo is slightly more than 1 gram of sugar.
Since a drop of Karo is roughly slightly more than 1/15th of a ml, then 1 drop must be about 70 mg.
Converting to malto based on a conversion of 18 then gives 1.26 grams of Malto = 1 drop Karo (+/- of course)
The 18 to 1 conversion is based on the fact that maltodextrin is a chain of up to 18 glucose molecules, and only the last molecule in the chain has any reducing power.