I think that using stainless steel for a cathode in larger setups to
save money is ill advised. The way to save money is to reverse the
current every minute, with two silver electrodes. If you do that 90% of
the plateout will get used to make CS, instead of plating out on the
stainless steel.
Marshall
Bruce Anderson wrote:
Hi Carol Ann
Now that my brain fog has been lifted by Ode, maybe I can answer that.
Using a stainless steel rod for the cathode an idea I got from "Ole
Bob" (now deseased). It acts as anelectron emitter only and
contributes nothing else to the EIS. In setups that use large silver
annodes this saves the cost of using silver cathodes. You can't use
it if you use polarity switching and it would make little difference
if you are only using 6"-8' electrodes.
Bruce A
Carol Ann wrote:
For clarification to this novice, why would one be using stainless
steel and silver trodes together. What are they making?
*/Ode Coyote <[email protected]>/* wrote:
According to a simple little electroplating diagram I keep handy,
the
silver goes on the + side.
Electrons may head from minus to plus, but the silver is *losing *
electrons to become ions.
Ode
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