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Water Ionizer Electrodes: The Heart of the Matter

We drink alkaline ionised water for the healthy properties. The electrodes create the ionisation which deliver those benefits. When it comes to ionisers, understanding electrodes is like understanding the importance of your cardiac system to your overall health.

The water cell is the heart of an ioniser. It consists of a series of electrodes (plates), each separated by a membrane. This page will explain how electrode technologies differ and what that means to ionizer performance and ultimately your health.

There is so much hype and misinformation about electrodes or plates. Some say bigger plates are better. Others make you think that more plates are better. Some advertise more power – like 800 watts – as if we were powering 20-inch sub-woofers. We are ionising water. The reality is that bigger or more plates or more power means inefficient engineering and lower quality materials and manufacturing. More or bigger DOES NOT mean better performance. An often overlooked yet incredibly important point is that more power also means more heat, which means the platinum plating breaks down faster on the surface of the electrode. This equals poor performance over time.

There is hype too around the type of plates. Again, performance does not come down to the type of plate, but rather the sophistication of the engineering and the quality of the materials and manufacturing.

After educating yourself on some basics, you can easily see why our Smart Electrodes offer you the most advanced engineering, along with the best materials and manufacturing. This adds up to more efficient performance and lasting durability. All things that smart shoppers look for.

Smart Electrodes

Smart Electrodes start with the highest quality materials. We use certified 99.9% pure titanium from Japan and the highest quality platinum.

The electrodes are engineered employing an advanced flat design that offers more effective surface area than slotted or mesh plates of the same size.

Then the electrodes are robotically electro-plated using a proprietary technique. A computer controlled robotic arm is used to apply the platinum, under pressure, multiple times and from different angles that allows the most precise plating application. The resulting plate surface can direct a uniform electron flow and provide the most efficient power saturation.

Our proprietary electroplating process and the resulting Smart Electrodes feature technological advances and enhanced performance characteristics which allow superior ioniser performance in the following ways:

  • Superior platinum adhesion
  • Superior conductivity which allows for lower power and higher efficiency
  • Increased surface area; up to 3x the number of vertices as smooth dipped plates
  • Optimised water flow dynamics over the plate surface due to vertices (increased performance proven in independent US EPA certified testing)

Material Composition

Titanium is the base material in every ioniser electrode/plate, because it has proven safe and effective. It is corrosion resistant, has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any metal, is very durable, and demonstrates the ability to easily change polarity, which is critically important in the ionisation process. The best ionizer plates are coated with platinum because it was determined in a 1992 study by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, that platinum is the only entirely safe material to use in water ioniser plating/coating.

Electrode Types

There are three basic types of plates:

  • Flat Plate: The most common, basic and simple plate design.
  • Mesh Plate: The most technically advanced configuration; also the most expensive to manufacture.
  • Slotted or “Hybrid” Plate: A less expensive and less effective version of mesh plate technology.

Regardless of what you read, the most critical part of an electrode is not the type but rather how the electrodes are engineered, what materials are used and how they are applied or manufactured.

Prevention of Titanium Leaching

AlkaViva is able to totally prevent titanium leaching on the electrodes by two methods:

  • Complete and uniform coverage. Our coating process surpasses all other processes in the ionisation industry to more completely and evenly cover the titanium plates with pure platinum, including all edges and all surfaces.
  • More efficient use of power. This means we can apply less power more efficiently which creates far less heat and stress on the plate during the electrical load phases.

View a certified analytical test result from the United States Environmental Protection Agency Primacy Laboratory for the State of Nevada showing that there is no leaching.

Optimal Results Without Additives

AlkaViva employs proprietary technologies which are able to achieve optimal alkalising and acidifying results without the use of (potentially harmful) solutions such as salt enhancers.

It isn’t ALL about Electrodes: Membranes

All ionisers employ ion-selective membranes to separate the electrodes and enable the water to “ionically separate” the water into an alkaline and acidic stream. The membrane is absolutely critical in how an ioniser performs. You can have a well-designed plate, powered optimally but if you have poor membranes, then you have poor performance. Other ioniser manufacturers buy their membranes from outside sources. In comparison, AlkaViva’s Infusion Membranes are made in-house and are ultrasonically pressed, rather than chemically bonded. This provides you with a distinctly superior membrane, designed to work specifically with our Smart Electrodes, giving you unmatched performance.

Summary

Our competitors use more watts and amps, spreading the same input voltage over a larger surface area which results in less efficiency. They do not deliver the power evenly or efficiently and must do so with greater resistance.

More power means more heat, which means the platinum plating breaks down faster on the surface of the electrode. This equals poor performance over time.

So now you can see that in truth, bigger is not better. This is why the electronics industry (and others) has shown that when technology advances, it typically results in smaller, more powerful and devices. Why would ionizers be any different? The truth is they are not.

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Water Ionizer Electrodes: The Heart of the Matter

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We drink alkaline ionised water for the healthy properties. The electrodes create the ionisation which deliver those benefits. When it comes to ionisers, understanding electrodes is like understanding the importance of your cardiac system to your overall health.

The water cell is the heart of an ioniser. It consists of a series of electrodes (plates), each separated by a membrane. This page will explain how electrode technologies differ and what that means to ionizer performance and ultimately your health.

There is so much hype and misinformation about electrodes or plates. Some say bigger plates are better. Others make you think that more plates are better. Some advertise more power – like 800 watts – as if we were powering 20-inch sub-woofers. We are ionising water. The reality is that bigger or more plates or more power means inefficient engineering and lower quality materials and manufacturing. More or bigger DOES NOT mean better performance. An often overlooked yet incredibly important point is that more power also means more heat, which means the platinum plating breaks down faster on the surface of the electrode. This equals poor performance over time.

There is hype too around the type of plates. Again, performance does not come down to the type of plate, but rather the sophistication of the engineering and the quality of the materials and manufacturing.

After educating yourself on some basics, you can easily see why our Smart Electrodes offer you the most advanced engineering, along with the best materials and manufacturing. This adds up to more efficient performance and lasting durability. All things that smart shoppers look for.

Smart Electrodes

Smart Electrodes start with the highest quality materials. We use certified 99.9% pure titanium from Japan and the highest quality platinum.

The electrodes are engineered employing an advanced flat design that offers more effective surface area than slotted or mesh plates of the same size.

Then the electrodes are robotically electro-plated using a proprietary technique. A computer controlled robotic arm is used to apply the platinum, under pressure, multiple times and from different angles that allows the most precise plating application. The resulting plate surface can direct a uniform electron flow and provide the most efficient power saturation.

Our proprietary electroplating process and the resulting Smart Electrodes feature technological advances and enhanced performance characteristics which allow superior ioniser performance in the following ways:

  • Superior platinum adhesion
  • Superior conductivity which allows for lower power and higher efficiency
  • Increased surface area; up to 3x the number of vertices as smooth dipped plates
  • Optimised water flow dynamics over the plate surface due to vertices (increased performance proven in independent US EPA certified testing)

Material Composition

Titanium is the base material in every ioniser electrode/plate, because it has proven safe and effective. It is corrosion resistant, has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any metal, is very durable, and demonstrates the ability to easily change polarity, which is critically important in the ionisation process. The best ionizer plates are coated with platinum because it was determined in a 1992 study by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, that platinum is the only entirely safe material to use in water ioniser plating/coating.

Electrode Types

There are three basic types of plates:

  • Flat Plate: The most common, basic and simple plate design.
  • Mesh Plate: The most technically advanced configuration; also the most expensive to manufacture.
  • Slotted or “Hybrid” Plate: A less expensive and less effective version of mesh plate technology.

Regardless of what you read, the most critical part of an electrode is not the type but rather how the electrodes are engineered, what materials are used and how they are applied or manufactured.

Prevention of Titanium Leaching

AlkaViva is able to totally prevent titanium leaching on the electrodes by two methods:

  • Complete and uniform coverage. Our coating process surpasses all other processes in the ionisation industry to more completely and evenly cover the titanium plates with pure platinum, including all edges and all surfaces.

  • More efficient use of power. This means we can apply less power more efficiently which creates far less heat and stress on the plate during the electrical load phases.

View a certified analytical test result from the United States Environmental Protection Agency Primacy Laboratory for the State of Nevada showing that there is no leaching.

Optimal Results Without Additives

AlkaViva employs proprietary technologies which are able to achieve optimal alkalising and acidifying results without the use of (potentially harmful) solutions such as salt enhancers.

It isn’t ALL about Electrodes: Membranes

All ionisers employ ion-selective membranes to separate the electrodes and enable the water to “ionically separate” the water into an alkaline and acidic stream. The membrane is absolutely critical in how an ioniser performs. You can have a well-designed plate, powered optimally but if you have poor membranes, then you have poor performance. Other ioniser manufacturers buy their membranes from outside sources. In comparison, AlkaViva’s Infusion Membranes are made in-house and are ultrasonically pressed, rather than chemically bonded. This provides you with a distinctly superior membrane, designed to work specifically with our Smart Electrodes, giving you unmatched performance.

Summary

Our competitors use more watts and amps, spreading the same input voltage over a larger surface area which results in less efficiency. They do not deliver the power evenly or efficiently and must do so with greater resistance.

More power means more heat, which means the platinum plating breaks down faster on the surface of the electrode. This equals poor performance over time.

So now you can see that in truth, bigger is not better. This is why the electronics industry (and others) has shown that when technology advances, it typically results in smaller, more powerful and devices. Why would ionizers be any different? The truth is they are not.

 

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