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Activated Carbon Powder

Not any. Different activated carbons have different distributions of macro, meso, and micropores. This strongly impacts the adsorptive performance for volatile components despite similarity in the molasses number. I'll often specify exact vendor carbons to my customers to ensure performance in their systems.

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Awesome, so what “ exact vendor carbons” would you recommend? Is there a specific brand etc...that you use? And how do you know so much about carbon? Thanks


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Awesome, so what “ exact vendor carbons” would you recommend? Is there a specific brand etc...that you use? And how do you know so much about carbon? Thanks


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I personally prefer a blend of Calgon WPC with a grind of Darco H2S for mercaptan/sulfide removal (farts). Overkill. Off the shelf coconut PAC is fine.

Why do I know so much about this stuff. I'm a chemical / environmental engineer and hold a Ph.D. from UW. I've been engineering systems that utilize activated carbon (and ozone) for over a decade.

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I personally prefer a blend of Calgon WPC with a grind of Darco H2S for mercaptan/sulfide removal (farts). Overkill. Off the shelf coconut PAC is fine.

Why do I know so much about this stuff. I'm a chemical / environmental engineer and hold a Ph.D. from UW. I've been engineering systems that utilize activated carbon (and ozone) for over a decade.

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Awesome thanks man!


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I personally prefer a blend of Calgon WPC with a grind of Darco H2S for mercaptan/sulfide removal (farts). Overkill. Off the shelf coconut PAC is fine.

Why do I know so much about this stuff. I'm a chemical / environmental engineer and hold a Ph.D. from UW. I've been engineering systems that utilize activated carbon (and ozone) for over a decade.

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Love it when BassBoys chimes in on activated carbon and ozone topics! I just sit back and wait for his definitive words of wisdom....
 
Real science trumps testimonials and opinions. I believe Bass science


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I personally prefer a blend of Calgon WPC with a grind of Darco H2S for mercaptan/sulfide removal (farts). Overkill. Off the shelf coconut PAC is fine.

Why do I know so much about this stuff. I'm a chemical / environmental engineer and hold a Ph.D. from UW. I've been engineering systems that utilize activated carbon (and ozone) for over a decade.

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Do you use scentlok?...what your opinion of it?
 
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Do you use scentlok?...what your opinion of it?[/QUOTE]Good product. Not for me. I would rather run virgin carbon on my base layers and clean outerlayers and electrostatics. I'm not crazy on the scent control though these days. Most sits I hunt the traditional way. Important sits I'll do more. I have less important sits these days.

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Good product. Not for me. I would rather run virgin carbon on my base layers and clean outerlayers and electrostatics. I'm not crazy on the scent control though these days. Most sits I hunt the traditional way. Important sits I'll do more. I have less important sits these days.

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Those boys over at the hunting beast have worked their way into my head too... I haven’t abandoned scent control but definitely paying a lot of attention to the wind last season!


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Those boys over at the hunting beast have worked their way into my head too... I haven’t abandoned scent control but definitely paying a lot of attention to the wind last season!


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Don't let them fool you. scent control works if you want it to. Nothing wrong with no scent control. it's an easy way to hunt.

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Do you use scentlok?...what your opinion of it?
Good product. Not for me. I would rather run virgin carbon on my base layers and clean outerlayers and electrostatics. I'm not crazy on the scent control though these days. Most sits I hunt the traditional way. Important sits I'll do more. I have less important sits these days.

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What are electrostatics? Ozone? I'm a believer in O2 for treating gear. What's you opinion on it (not the O2 for field use...I don't believe that works).
 
Good product. Not for me. I would rather run virgin carbon on my base layers and clean outerlayers and electrostatics. I'm not crazy on the scent control though these days. Most sits I hunt the traditional way. Important sits I'll do more. I have less important sits these days.

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What are electrostatics? Ozone? I'm a believer in O2 for treating gear. What's you opinion on it (not the O2 for field use...I don't believe that works).[/QUOTE]Scent is composed of volatile and particulate components. Most hunters focus on the volatile component but the particulate (in the form of skin rafts) is equally important. The average human expels over 40,000 skin rafts per minute. That's 7.2 million skin rafts over the course of a 3 hour hunt. That's a lot of scent.

Electrostatic clothing works no different than a duster. It collects the skin rafts rather than letting them float downwind.

Ozone works. It may not completely eliminate scent but it renders the scent into a different form. This changes your scent fingerprint. The resulting byproducts are generally more water soluble as well. Ozone also reduces biological activity on your clothing and skin rafts attached to your clothing. This further reduces your active scent.

I believe field generators work but the mechanism is completely different than ozone in a tote. My hypothesis is that ozone attacks a whitetails sense of smell. Ozone solubility allows it to concentrate in the zone of olfaction. When a whitetail steps into an ozone steam downwind, the ozone accumulates and the ability to smell is temporarily reduced/impaired. Once the whitetail exits the ozone stream, proteins "wash" the residual ozone and the ability to smell is restored.


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What are electrostatics? Ozone? I'm a believer in O2 for treating gear. What's you opinion on it (not the O2 for field use...I don't believe that works).
Scent is composed of volatile and particulate components. Most hunters focus on the volatile component but the particulate (in the form of skin rafts) is equally important. The average human expels over 40,000 skin rafts per minute. That's 7.2 million skin rafts over the course of a 3 hour hunt. That's a lot of scent.

Electrostatic clothing works no different than a duster. It collects the skin rafts rather than letting them float downwind.

Ozone works. It may not completely eliminate scent but it renders the scent into a different form. This changes your scent fingerprint. The resulting byproducts are generally more water soluble as well. Ozone also reduces biological activity on your clothing and skin rafts attached to your clothing. This further reduces your active scent.

I believe field generators work but the mechanism is completely different than ozone in a tote. My hypothesis is that ozone attacks a whitetails sense of smell. Ozone solubility allows it to concentrate in the zone of olfaction. When a whitetail steps into an ozone steam downwind, the ozone accumulates and the ability to smell is temporarily reduced/impaired. Once the whitetail exits the ozone stream, proteins "wash" the residual ozone and the ability to smell is restored.


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So, is electrostatic clothing a product on the market or is it something that can be dyi created on existing clothing?
 
You won't find camo with this technology.
Most of the garments available are for the healthcare industry. DIY is your best bet and there are several sources for split microfiber fabric. I won't to make more this summer.

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You won't find camo with this technology.
Most of the garments available are for the healthcare industry. DIY is your best bet and there are several sources for split microfiber fabric. I won't to make more this summer.

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Base layers don't need to be camo.

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You won't find camo with this technology.
Most of the garments available are for the healthcare industry. DIY is your best bet and there are several sources for split microfiber fabric. I won't to make more this summer.

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Very interesting info as usual, BassBoys! Thanks.

For targeting skin rafts with electrostatic clothing, do you have to cover your entire body or just escape points? I am imagining (though I could be wrong) that skin rafts don’t travel through your clothes so much but instead come out through the neck of your shirt, cuffs of your jacket and pants, etc. Is this correct? So are these the areas to target with electrostatic “gaiters” or do you need to cover all skin?
 
Very interesting info as usual, BassBoys! Thanks.

For targeting skin rafts with electrostatic clothing, do you have to cover your entire body or just escape points? I am imagining (though I could be wrong) that skin rafts don’t travel through your clothes so much but instead come out through the neck of your shirt, cuffs of your jacket and pants, etc. Is this correct? So are these the areas to target with electrostatic “gaiters” or do you need to cover all skin?
Exit points would presumably work. Just don't let your buddies laugh at you if you walk around looking like this.

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Concerning skin rafts... We lose a lot of them during a hunt and they smell like a human. I understand that. But how are they escaping my clothes? Are they sliding through the fabrics? I wear gloves. My pants are tucked into my boots. I wear a hat and face covering. How are those little SRBs escaping???

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Concerning skin rafts... We lose a lot of them during a hunt and they smell like a human. I understand that. But how are they escaping my clothes? Are they sliding through the fabrics? I wear gloves. My pants are tucked into my boots. I wear a hat and face covering. How are those little SRBs escaping???

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I'm guessing that they pass through the fabric, but I am curious about the average micron size of a skin raft. If they are larger than the pore of breathable fabrics like Goretex, then those types of clothes may help to contain them?? Just a thought.


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Were you the ozone expert on the wired to hunt podcast that went over all this?


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Were you the ozone expert on the wired to hunt podcast that went over all this?


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I did an interview with Garrett and Boswell on the DIY sportsman podcast. I haven't done anything with wired to hunt.

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