OK, went in and tested this morning around 8am. The bottles had been "in the make" for 16 hours - 4pm yesterday to 8am this morning.
1. My control MMS, which had been in the fridge, 24 drops MMS, 24 drops CDS, 20 second activation, 1 quart distilled water. It tested at 25ppm, dipping the 1-500 test strip directly into the water. I made a fresh batch (just in case the 16 hours in the fridge had caused a lessening of ppms) and it still tested out to 25ppm. (note: because I'm using testing strips here, everything is +/-, but the colors were so close, they appeared the same. Something to hold in your mind - when you activate 24 drops of MMS/CA, not everything there is chlorine dioxide gas - there is still some citric acid not activated, and probably some of the remaining 20% of whatever is in the sodium Chlorite 80%.... so since I was measuring only the Chlorine dioxide, I got 25ppm. With the MMS, there is still some activation that goes on in the stomach - so ultimate ppms can be higher, but there's no way to test how high.)
2. My 1 quart (day's dose) CDS in distilled water, 24 drops MMS, 24 drops CDS in a shot glass, sitting in 1 quart of distilled water, which had been on the floor of the root cellar was a surprise. It tested at 100ppm - just sticking the testing strip into the quart of water - so it made a much stronger dose of CDS. Most of the MMS/CA had gone into the water and the residual in the shot glass was not quite clear, but very close.
3. I diluted the quart with an additional quart of water, and got it down to 50ppm. This makes a 2 day batch, and it will keep in the fridge for that long, no problem.
4. I then took 2 oz of the day's dose CDS and added it to 2 oz of distilled water (since I didn't have a gallon jar to dilute it to) and got it down to 25ppm. (again, everything is approx, closest color was 25ppm). Now, thinking about this, why did it happen? Well, remember in the video where jim blew the cds into the daily dose water, and remember how with 24 drops, he got 3 bottles, not one? I think at the end that he asked Mark about the desired ppm and Mark said 35 to 50. [This is my memory, will have to go back to review the tape].
5. My small pint jar, with the 60cc of mms and ca is currently testing at 1000 ppm, using the 1cc of the CDS and 9 cc of the distilled water to test. This was also a surprise - I thought it would be higher, but there was quite a bit of MMS/CA that had not turned into Chlorine Dioxide - IOW, the liquid in the shot glass was still quite yellow. This may be because it was sitting on the cold floor, and there was less water (4 oz) to buffer the cold???? Or because there was more to offgas? (1 vs 3cc) I don't know. I've placed the shot glass back in the pint jar and will let it continue to "work" and see what happens. I would love to let it continue to "work" until the shot glass contains clear fluid, and then test.
My thoughts - at this moment, the best bang for your buck would be the daily dose CDS, diluted to make 2 days worth of CDS (item number 3, leaving it at 50ppm, not doing the second dilution of 2oz of distilled water and 2 oz of CDS) - Remember, this had a 16 hour "make" - so it's going to be stronger than Sandy's, which was a much shorter "make" - (neither is right or wrong, just different outcomes)
Additional experiments might be
a. to shorten the make time to see what, say, 8 hours or 12 hours would do (this will not be the most efficient use of the MMS/CA, though) for item 2.
or b. to lower the number of drops to 12 activated at the longer time, for item 3 (this might just make a day's dose, not 2 day's)
or c. to make up a 4 oz with the 24 drops, over short or long times, and add water to take it to 32 oz for a days dose.
Or d. to make up a 4 oz with 12 drops, over short or long times, and add water to take it to a 32 oz daily dose.
I'm going to play with c. and d. using, once again, the 16 hour period. I'll start again this afternoon.
If anyone else wants to play along, please feel free.