Try a simple test. Take a couple of plates of stainless and put them into a cup of plain distilled water so that they cannot touch. Apply voltage and watch the current draw as you slowly add dry electrolyte to the distilled water, giving time for the electrolyte to dissolve and disperse into the distilled water. You can stir it to help it dissolve if you want. There will be a point where the current will peak, and as you add more electrolyte, the current will stop increasing or may even begin to drop again. Add a little more distilled water to get back to just before the peak, and you will have the maximum electrolyte concentration you should run. Be sure you keep track of how much water and how much dry electrolyte you used. Try that concentration of solution in your unit. Your problem may have been that you just exceeded the concentration limit, and adding more only made it worst.
BobStatistics: Posted by Bob Boyce — Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:24 am
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