After 8 years the stirrer on my SilverGen has given up the ghost. No complaints - for all these years I've been making all the colloidal silver I've ever wanted for family, neighbors, friends and even my beauty school instructors, students and clients.

It's been a huge money and misery relief for our family of four.  And in the beauty school, any time there's a burn, cut, sore throat, infection, flue etc everyone comes running to me for the "magic water". Leaving no scars for cuts or burns alone stuns people the first time they use it.

I was going to automatically just reorder another SilverGen - except for two possible considerations.

1) That a magnetic stirrer will last longer even than the 8 years for the Silvergen; and

2) That other newer models can make even smaller particles.

Item 2 is murky territory since the SilverGen goes pretty small anyway and has worked well on most all applications I've used it for over the 8 years. Yet I still have the impression that the alleged "nano silver" has been somewhat more effective in the nebulizer when I have bronchitis/pneumonia etc.  Tho placebo effect is always a possibility.

One unit that seems to fit the bill is the SilverLung unit which has the magnetic stirrer and boasts a smaller particle size using lesser current and frequent pole reversals. I also like that it uses the thicker silver bars that helps both speed and overall quality (so they say).

What I don't like about SilverLungs vis-a-vis the SilverGen is:

1) part of the set up is a proprietary glass beaker which can easily break leaving the unit unworkable until a new one is ordered / received.

The Silvergen uses mason jars which can be purchased anywhere dirt cheap.

2) SilverLungs has a seperate meter and one other piece that are external to the unit - Silvergen is a single unit with the water testing built in..

3) Also Silvergen looks like professional grade equipment, where units that look like they were pieced together from Radio Shack and lab equipment supply stores leave me a bit cold.

But if the magnetic stirrer is genuinely superior in terms of longevity and the particle size is significantly smaller with the Silverlungs I will probably still go that way despite the inconveniences.

HELP!!

Does anyone have experience with these types of units that can offer suggestions?