At 10:04 AM 04/09/2009 -0700, Pablo Brena wrote:
>Hello Jon,
>
>Your statement: " a DC voltage can be used to prevent corrosion" kept me
thinking... it might be worth value to design the electric circuit to help
keeping the hideous rust away (I guess this is how Auto's electrical
circuit works right??), even if it required to rectify modern hub dynamos
AC into DC current.
>
>Would you be so kind as to give general design considerations?
There are both cathodic protection systems and electronic protection
systems. The only area I know they are used with any success is in marine
applications. They are also sold for cars, but I've never seen any evidence
that they work in that application, so I doubt that it would work on a bike.
See http://corrosion-doctors.org/
John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada