Six Liter Silver Cell Modification

Thanks for the update Sreetips. That thing is eating that silver shot up fast now! That little "nest" of silver looked amazing. I'm glad the soldering iron suggestion worked. Looks like you got a lot more holes in the basket now. 👏👍

Your electrolyte is too conductive. Make it weaker. With your power supply, limiting the current will cause the voltage to drop (because the electrolyte can use all the current). Ohms law.

YOUR YEALD IS GOING TO BE OVER THE PAST PREVIOUS RECORDS I CAN TELL, THIS CELL IS A BEAST!!! AWESOME CONTENT SIR!!!🎉🎉🎉

The problem is the flat bottom of the bowl. Lifting the basket still keeps it closest to the flat bottom. Maybe cover part of the flat bottom with a rubber sheet so the crystals can't form at that part.

DC voltage requires larger conductors to move current, without a large amount of resistance. Resistance equals heat. Reduce the resistance and you lower your heat. I actually have a 4/0 copper supply, for the Anode and a 4/0 ground, split between two, stainless steel, Cathode bowls. I'm getting minimal heating, and, not burning off the supply from the Cathode. If you increase the size of your supply and ground, you'll be amazed at how much better this will work. It also will not place a burden on your DC converter, (less humming). Direct Current is a completely different beast than Alternating Current. 40 years as a Journeyman Electrician.

Maybe the positions of the holes in the basket would have an effect. If there are no holes in the bottom, this will also increase the distance.

The purity is high! Beautiful. A joy to see.

The concept is simple. The current flow is part of the "problem". The higher the current flow, the faster the crystals will grow. While not bad overall, the portions of the bowl that are closest will grow faster due to their proximity to the basket, eventually growing fast enough to reach the basket in a very short time, a characteristic you just discovered and requires too much monitoring. A uniform distance from the basket will reduce the current, as you discovered by raising the basket, which increased the electrical resistance with the increased distance between the cathode and anode. To solve the rapid growth situation, either reduce the current, or increase the distance and make that distance uniform in all directions.

something that I do when I want crystals to grow slowly is using a tall plastic container that I get at walmart, it is like a cereal storage container with a lid that creates a vacuum seal when you close it. then a get a long glass tube and feed some silver wire/thread down through the glass tube and make 2-3 loops with the silver thread that are about the size of the bottom of the plastic container, gently heat up the glass tube and wedge it into the corner of the plastic container so that it slightly melts it and holds onto the tube. throw a larger stir bar in and fill with the nitrate solution, do a similar basket set up like you do, connect the power supply to my basket and the silver thread, turn on my magnetic stirrer so that there's a gentle vortex and turn on my power supply setting it to the volts and amps that I want it at so that I don't have to worry about one of them being to high and just let it do its things for awhile, seeing it from the side and how the crystals grow like that is truly a sight to see

Thanks for taking us on this journey of getting her tuned!! Maybe you'd have the best of both worlds if you burn the holes higher up the basket instead of raising it up? You'd have more shot submerged and yet the electrical connection to the solution is still further from the bottom.

I liked the idea of insulating the bottom of the bowl. What won't the silver crystal attach to? Glad you spaced the basket up. That was one solution I had thought would help.

I like how well that helped control the current. I read somewhere that the voltage and current can impact the type of crystals that grow. Explains the thin needles.

Those silver crystals in the blue electrolyte looks amazing on my smart wide-screen TV. Great video. Thank you for sharing 👌👍

It's possible that reducing/eliminating the bottom holes in the filter basket could achieve similar results by making a more difficult path to the bottom of the bowl.

Hey Steetips! Long time viewer! All your videos are awesome! I was thinking... If you used something deeper, like a stainless steel pot for example, you could increase the distance between the bottom of the cell and the impure silver shot dish in the lid. The current may increase due to the larger volume like you're seeing on your 6 quart bowl, but the pure silver crystal harvest would be even greater. And you have plenty of cement silver to keep an even larger silver cell going!

Again always learning as a watch you. Very fascinating to see this process, it really never gets old. 👍

Its looking amazing!

It'd be interesting to see a timelapse of the silver shot being consumed in the filter basket, those crystals are amazing!

The better solution to your problem of "crystal growth under the filter basket" is to modify your Stainless Steel vessel. Instead of a round bottom vessel, you can take a deep bottom vessel just like your drum for making silver shots. The more the depth of the vessel, the more it takes the silver to grow before touching the bottom of the filter basket.

that's like a piece of art some one might pay very good money for that kind of thing