[BC] Grounding by the sea

[Milton Holladay]

The obvious just occurred to me: these oceanic stations need sacrificial 
zinc electrodes to keep the ground system from being eaten away !
M

On 2/15/2012 15:24: VIRUS ALERT!, Cowboy wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 February 2012 11:35:12 am Alan Alsobrook wrote:
>>   I would not expect galvanized pipe to last more
>> than a couple years.
>   Considering that galvanizing is zinc, and zinc is used for the
>   sacrificial electrodes on ship to prevent loss of props and such,
>   I wouldn't expect anything galvanized to last long.
>

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