I had much better results with a wall transformer.
I ran it for 15 minuts, and the mixture turned my ice tea from a dark tea color to something like miller lite.

It no longer tase like tea, but does taste like pool water.

The transformer is 9 v and 500ma.

So it looks like it's the current, and not the voltage that is needed.

I guess 2 lithum batteries can put out quite a bit more current than a nine volt.

Very interesting results, thanks for sharing.

Bill,

Excellent! Thank you for the follow-up. Using ice tea was brilliant! It makes sense that current is more important than voltage.

<Professor mode> Current measures the number of electrons passing through a system while voltage measure the force at which they are moving (roughly speaking). The more electrons you pump into the salt water the more oxidative products you will form, making it better at killing the wee lil' beasties. </Professor mode>

-Blast

Here is a link to the MIOX patent:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parse...amp;amp;RS=MIOX

Looks like the anode is ruthenium oxide coated titanium, and the cathode is titanium.