On another thread about refiners in Europe, posts between myself and Shark lead to questions about making a reasonably productive Silver cell and how to build it to simplify harvesting the crystals. I found on line a steeply sloped bottom tank called an inductor tank from Tank Depot 60 Gallon Inductor Tank 62205 | Tank Depot that will allow a 4" drain line for crystals to drop. At 30" in diameter it should be relatively easy to cut the top and add anode buss bars and cathode bars and a cathode rocker to a 21" square cut into the top. After doing some math and configuring just what would fit in that space to determine the size and quantity of cathode plates, I realized that we could make a system with 3 anode buss bars to hang anodes in anode bag baskets and 4 cathodes and make a system to run from a 250 amp rectifier that could produce up to 630 oz in a 24 hour day.
Then I thought, "how many of our members would actually be interested in a cell that large?" So I slowed my thought process down a bit and figured what may really be needed is something to go in-between the stainless bowl cells and the smallest of the commercially manufactured cells.
Bottom line is, before we start designing, (which would be a good community project to take up), what is a realistic consensus of opinion as to how many ounces a week would a reasonable cell produce? Keeping in mind the size of the power supply needed and what a smaller refiner could feed the thing consistently.
So before we start designing something no-one is actually interested in making, just how big should this cell be. Answers in T.O. fine silver produced weekly.
What is the consensus?
Then I thought, "how many of our members would actually be interested in a cell that large?" So I slowed my thought process down a bit and figured what may really be needed is something to go in-between the stainless bowl cells and the smallest of the commercially manufactured cells.
Bottom line is, before we start designing, (which would be a good community project to take up), what is a realistic consensus of opinion as to how many ounces a week would a reasonable cell produce? Keeping in mind the size of the power supply needed and what a smaller refiner could feed the thing consistently.
So before we start designing something no-one is actually interested in making, just how big should this cell be. Answers in T.O. fine silver produced weekly.
What is the consensus?