I have recently my SilverTron Elite colloidal silver generator which I am very pleased to have. It feels and looks well made and functions a treat. I wasn't initially aware of 'SilverTrons' when I began online searching for colloidal silver generators and the often confusing and conflicting explanations that I found on other sites undermined my confidence in what to believe and in what to get. It was only after a couple of weeks that I chanced upon Kephra CSCG forum and from there the SilverTron. It was a breath of fresh air to read thru Kephra's articles and his replies/explanations to forum member posts, I felt here is the best explanations and information regarding colloidal silver production. It is so wonderful to get the benefit of Kephra's Scientific/Electrolysis experience because it is incredibly useful for anyone else who doesn't have that knowledge. So a huge thank you to Kephra for sharing, truly much appreciated, and for that reason I am chuffed to now own one of his machines.
So far I have made 20 - 30 batches of colloidal silver having first made up some sodium carbonate electrolyte and some inverted sugar for reducing. I have been having one problem that any thoughts on would be most welcome. Many of the batches are not reducing to a really clear yellow but instead can have a little cloudy/pearliness to their yellow, especially when viewed down on, altho held up to the light behind they can still look clear and yellow.
I had been having trouble cleaning the jars due to the small neck size, but yesterday I found brush that seems to make it easier to clean. I then made 5 batches, all with 20 drops of Sodium Carbonate to 1 liter DW, the first one turned out perfect (Ma 7, Voltage between 10 and 20), it reduced to a very nice clear yellow. The next batch I thought I'll up the Ma to 15 and adjusted the cathode depth to keep the voltage between 10 and 20, I could see the silver oxide streaming off the bullion bar, however on completely after filtering thru a Hario coffee filter and reducing with 3 drops of inverted sugar and a little heat like the previous batch it changed to a somewhat cloudy/pearly yellow. I don't yet have a stirrer/hotplate so the batches were done cold. As per a post by Kephra where he attached a pic of a run done cold with a stirrer, the glass jar of my runs had the same patch of dark silver oxide on the bottom under where the bullion bar was. I did several more batches yesterday, dropping the Ma down to 5 or 6, but all with the same cloudy result. I am forming the opinion I need a magnetic stirrer and the chances are that would solve this issue.
Currently I have a new batch running and have reduced the sodium carbonate to 8 drops for 1 liter of DW in case I was putting too much in, I have set the Ma to 4 and keeping the voltage to 15-16. I also heated the DW first to a nice warm 'hold in the hands' temperature, I did this in the small chance that it offers some convection currents that provide a little more water movement that the previous cold batches I had done. So far the batch is almost half way thru and is so far showing no sign of any brown silver oxide falling away from the bullion bar or accumulating under the bullion bar on the bottom of the jar which is what I'd noticed on all of yesterday's batches, this is giving me some hope that this batch will upon reducing be an improved result. For this run I will also not run it thru the paper filter in case that is contributing some contamination, instead hoping that the combination of heated DW, reduced sodium carbonate (8 drops instead of 20) and Ma set to 4 will make the difference for a good result without a stirrer.
I still remain perplexed on why my first batch done cold yesterday turned out looking clear yellow and great. I didn't take note of the exact voltage other than between 10 and 20, altho the Ma was set to 7. I also filtered this thru the Hario paper coffee filter (and the subsequent batches thru the same filter yesterday).