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DC Current/Rebar/Electrolysis

Thread starter ghostbuster7
Start date Oct 18, 2013

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Oct 18, 2013

ghostbuster7

Electrical

DCNew site to be designed.

Measured 10 to 20 amps dc ground current at site.(Source of DC current will never go away and is generated by some other group).

What is the best way to protect the rebar in the concrete from electrolysis?

Epoxy coatings?

Galvanizing?

Sacrificial anodes?

Thanks