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Battery Water (revisited)
Larry: Do you ever run a mixture of fermented corn squeezin's through that
distillation column? I'd pay for that, especially considering the quality of your system and the carbon filtration! "Larry W4CSC" wrote in message ... Distilled water is easy to test. All you need is a common ohmmeter, especially one with a high resistance range (not the cheapest thing Radio Shack sells for $10 like most boaters use). Distilled water has a resistance of infinity, it's an INSULATOR! Broadcast transmitters, like RCA's big UHF TV transmitter with two huge klystron tubes that must be water cooled, put 18,000 VDC on their klystron tube's collector.....inside the boiler where the distilled water is perking away absorbing the energy of the massive dose of electrons crashing headlong into the big copper collector. A meter measures "body current" which shows the leakage through the distilled water back to the big power supply whos transformers look like your neighborhood power company substation. A demineralizer sucks out the copper ions that happen when the tinest impurities in the distilled water eat away at the copper, mostly making copper sulphate, a conductor. In pure distilled water, copper doesn't even discolor because distilled water is very stable. So, all we need to do is take a sample of the "distilled" water you bought and set the ohmmeter on its highest ohm range and put the two test probes down into the water as close together as you can get them without touching them to each other......and the meter should still read INFINITY resistance. Anything less should not be put in a battery. I make about 12 gallons of distilled water in 24 hours with my commercial distiller. Having had 4 kidney stones removed because Charleston water is like a calcium bath, I said enough is enough. Mine is made of porcelain with stainless tubing adn parts and latex surgical hoses to connect the cooled water to the outside world, totally inert. I have a 10,000 volt "Hipot Tester" used to test electrical insulators to test its purity. The Hipot tester current meter at 10KV moves barely perceptibly when two platinum wires are inserted into a glass beaker of my water that are 4" long and 1" apart. The local water test lab says I'm producing better distilled water than they have. I gave them a gallon to use for their tests as a thank you for the water testing. I paid $18 for the distiller, brand new, from a surplus thrift shop who had no idea what it was, the find of a lifetime of dumpster diving. It's retail value is about $900. Distilled water costs about 25 cents per gallon at 8 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity. If you ever saw what Charleston city swampwater looked like after I boil away 24 gallons of H2O from it that's left in my boiler tank, you'd NEVER drink from a drinking fountain or tap again....It's brown like....well, you know....and huge calcium deposits coat everything in the distiller, not my kidneys, thank you! Oh, just for the RO lovers who've been convinced distilling takes out valuable health minerals, it's all a lie. The human body CANNOT use elemental metals to build strong bones and teeth and keep you healthy. Water, in case you haven't peed lately, is the body's FLUSHING WATER and the purer it is, the better it acts as a solvent to flush out the junk from you. ORGANIC calcium, not elemental calcium builds bones. No kidney stones in 5 years, now....(c; If you taste that "distilled water" from the store, you'll notice it tastes like metal dissolved in it. Distilling also distills anything that can be boiled off of the original water....like xylene, benzene, toulene, all the other enes polluting out water supply. Our water tests pretty high, but below the "safe level" for benzene, which comes from airplanes burning JP4 by the billions of gallons per year, I'm told. (see my tagline). This can be easily removed by passing the distilled water from the distiller through a column of activated carbon (not charcoal which introduces pollution). Pure activated carbon is really cheap on a 16 oz container in the fish department of every WalMart in a plastic jug. I think a lifetime supply is about $3. The activated carbon bonds, chemically, with the enes which attach themselves, permanently to the carbon forming new molecules... My system uses a nylon meat baster for a carbon column. Remove the rubber squeeze bulb from the nylon body of the baster and cut a slot in the end of the bulb. Push the pointy end of the baster through the slot through the bulb and let it stick out about an inch below the original bulb's open hole. This makes a plug that holds the baster vertical perfectly in the top of a 5-gallon standard water jug that fits my water cooler. The baster body has a little cone of coffee filter paper pushed into the bottom end from the top to keep the carbon from getting into the jug. Carbon is spooned into the baster on top of this filter cone until it's within 1/2" of the top. The water outlet hose is put in the top of the baster and she's ready to filter a batch of "homebrew". The water that ends up in the jug, now free of all distillable enes is DELICIOUS as well as perfect. The metallic taste of the enes is completely gone because they have been absorbed trickling down through the carbon. For sanitary purposes, the filter cone and carbon are disposed of each time I make a batch and fill my many bottles. Actually the carbon becomes so HOT from this chemical reaction no virus or bacteria could survive. NYLON is necessary because the heat cracked the glass one and melted the plastic basters in less than 5 minutes! But, carbon is so cheap...why take a chance? Well, all my friends get battery water from here. Maybe I should start marketing it!.....(c; Hmm...custom battery water - $4.99/gallon custom BOAT battery water - $18.95/gallon at West Marine.... That's about right, isn't it? We'll put some pennant flags and a steamship's wheel on the marine bottles to make it "Look Nautical"....It'll sell like hotcakes.... Which captain and boat magazines shall we get to endorse it.......hmmm....... On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:00:54 -0700, "Steve" wrote: Thanks for all the tips on finding distilled water for my batteries. However, I still remain sceptical regarding the quality of the supermarket "distilled water". In one store I found it labeled as "steam distilled" water but no reference to the TDS (total desolved solids). In another store I found two brands of "distilled" water. One label stated that it came for "Portland water system, charcoal filtered, Reverse Osmoses or steam distilation." I many not have the wording exactly, but that "OR" worrys me. Else where on the label it states that it has less than 1ppm solids. The other brand only indicated that it came from a plant in New Hampshire and gave a 800 number. Surprisingly, I called it at 1700 Pac. time and got a real live and helpful person. He had to go check when I as what process was used to produce the "distilled water". Without any prompting, as to what answer I wanted to hear, he came back on the line and told me it was Steam Distilled. However, I neglected to ask if he know what the TDS was for this product. I got the impression that he was just an answering service for the distiller and had to call someone for all technical matters. I purchased a couple gallons of the product that provided the info on TDS (1ppm) but now I'm unsure of how high a TDS I should allow.. I have no idea where to have a sample tested of the other stuff.. Anyone have any idea of what would be exceptable for my $600+ battery bank?? Perhaps I should call Trojan?? BTW. I had several gallon jugs of nice clean rain water. Well, after sitting on the shelf for 2 years, this water developed green algae bloom.. I dumpted it out but later, I realized I could have filtered it through coffee filters. Steve s/v Good Intentions Larry W4CSC 3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right? |
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