The boating world becomes emotional about potential stray currents. Normally they are not present and not a major task to deal with. However, our team can provide you with the DIY kits to undertake the basic tests yourself if you feel so inclined.

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How Does a VpCI Work – In simple terms, VpCI’s are products that simply transform from a solid state (powders) directly to a gaseous inhibitor VAPOR. This can best be understood as a product similar to Dry Ice that transforms from a solid to CO2 Gas. Or the Vapor Rub we all have used at some time in our life to relieve congestion in our breathing passages.

VpCI’s come in many forms. For the boat owners, the most useful products are for engine oil additives plus the tennis balls (VpCI – 111) that can be used to prote4ct electronics as well as atmospheric spaces in engine rooms to reduce the corrosion generally in the Engine Room space.

The VpCI cloud seeks out negative pressure spaces and generally will form a MONOMOLECULAR film on all enclosed metal surfaces. In so doing it will displace any moisture that would have otherwise settled on your metal surfaces and resulted in a corrosion situation.

Engine / Gear Box Oil Additives – VpCI-329 is an oil additive that will allow corrosion inhibitor gas to be released into the air spaces of the crankcase and gearbox enclosures of your marine engine/s. No more needs to exercise your engines monthly to keep the oil circulating and reduce corrosion within your engines and gearboxes. The VpCI cloud will produce a monomolecular film on all metal surfaces and displace any potential corrosive moisture.

This is better than what Silica Gel can provide and it works in oil.

Electronics, Switchboards & Engine Rooms – VpCI-111 is a powder impregnated sponge tennis ball size product that will provide VpCI inhibitor protection to a 3 cubic meter space for two years. You can stick one VpCI-111 tennis ball in your switch ball or engine room compartment (outboard cover) and achieve corrosion protection for two years in a three cubic meter space. Got bigger spaces, use more tennis balls.

For your electronics, use a VpCI-101 band-aid size stick up and you can protect 0.11 cubic meters (1 cubic foot) for two years.

Other VpCI’s – Vapor Corrosion inhibitor products are available in almost every form of Vapor Cloud Inhibitor form from impregnated plastics, tarpaulins, Machined parts coatings and soluble coolants.

The Anode Engineering corrosion prevention team are excited about the solutions to your potential corrosion problems. Call one of the A-Team Corrosion Engineers / marine Corrosion Surveyors today to get more information and answers on how to forget about silica gel options and seriously focus on the greatest new technology yet to arrive on the marine management scene.

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Dairyland Galvanic Isolators are one of the few internationally certified devices approved by the ABYC international certification body for small and medium sized marine craft. A Galvanic Isolator is a device fitted between the shore power and your vessels AC input supply point.

When your vessel is connected to shore based AC power, the GI devices electrically isolate the shore copper earthing system from your vessels immersed metal work as well as appliances on board. In the event of an electrical leakage or short on board the vessels AC system, the Dairyland GI will allow any AC to pass to ground via the shore earth.

However the Dairyland GI will not only allow AC to pass, but it will block any DC galvanic currents passing between the vessel and the shore copper earthing system.

All Dairyland GI devices are stringently designed and built to carry fault currents at the rating of the power outlet from the shore power. So there is no danger of overheating due to excessive currents which might otherwise result in inappropriately built units catching on fire. Dairyland GI’s are we believe the only GI’s built and certified for Lightning strikes as well.

Dairyland GI’s are designed to fail closed. Whilst there have never bene any reported electrical failures of Dairyland GI devices for marine purposes, they will fail closed to ensure maximum safety of personnel and electrical systems on a boat.

Why GI’s must be fitted to the vessel and not the Mooring or shore power pedestal

If a GI was fitted to a shore based pedestal outlet, should two vessels be moored and powered form the same pedestal outlet, your vessel would then be interconnected to the adjacent vessel via the common MEN earth on the common power supply. Also if you move your boat, you need to take your electrical protection with you. There is Australian Standards that nominate that vessels need to have their own GI’s and it is not the responsibility of the marina owner to provide such equipment.

If you want to ensure that your vessel remains protected and is not suffering from a lack of protection or stray currents from a number of possible sources then A GreenAmp CPMS system with 3G remote reporting could be the wisest investment you make to protect the value of your asset. If you have a Dairyland GI (galvanic isolator) fitted you will be assured of electrical safety at all times on board your vessel, plus should any issues arise with your AC Earth isolation the GreenAmp CPMS should report it to you within a week of the issue arising.

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Benefits of GreenAmp ICCP are that if the amount of current the hull, propeller and skin fittings require increases, your GreenAmp ICCP will automatically adjust its output and retain the protection on your hull. You might ask why that would change. Well below are some examples of changes in protection criteria demand currents:

Deterioration or loss of underwater hull coating systems.

Changes in salinity of the water your vessel is moored or operating in.

Increased tidal currents that deliver more oxygen and nutrient that increases corrosion activity.

Stray current activity form on board faulty wiring or from adjacent vessels or piled structures.

Operating speed decreases the effectiveness of a normal sacrificial anode system.

All of this and many other variables can result in the number of sacrificial anodes providing insufficient or excessive protection. The auto controlled GreenAmp ICCP system will record your operating data as well as display the protection in an easy to understand helm mounted meter.

GreenAmp ICCP can be operated from the ships DC batter supply or operate independently from a purpose fitted solar system.
Call Anode Engineering today or enquire with your local stockist.

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GreenAmp CPMS system simply monitors the level of cathodic protection on your vessel and logs the data once a week or more as the owner requires. That data is transmitted via 3G to the Anode engineering team cloud and then onto the owner by way of email, text message or other convenient methods.

What can go wrong with a boat protected by sacrificial anodes?

There are a number of issues that can arise with any vessel either at a mooring in a marina or out in the stream.

The sacrificial anodes can become consumed and thus leaving the boat without adequate corrosion protection (cathodic protection – CP). This can cause corrosion of metallic hulls or skin fittings and result in damage to those metallic surfaces immersed in the water.

If there is battery power on board, due to salt water condensation, a high resistance connection within the DC power reticulation on board can result in what is referred to as Stray Currents. These stray currents can cause extremely accelerated corrosion of immersed metallic hulls and or skin fittings.

If a hull is steel or aluminium and is very well coated, the DC stray current can discharge from the uncoated propeller or skin fitting and result in accelerated corrosion damage to the propeller.

If the vessel is moored in a marina and connected to the AC shore Power earthing system, your vessel can become interconnected to the adjacent vessels through the MEN power earthing system. So if the adjacent boat/s have any sort of corrosion issues or have no or little CP, or have any form of electrical issues, the problem can be transferred to your boat.

There are many other issues regarding CP and sacrificial anodes fitted to boats generally. However the basic intent of the GreenAmp CPMS monitoring system is that monitoring CP levels on your boat will generally confirm that your vessel is protected and nothing has occurred to cause premature corrosion damage to your hull, propeller/s or skin fittings. Because the system records the protection data and sends it to you via the Anode Engineering cloud, you get to know weekly on the status of your vessels CP and electrical condition relative to underwater corrosion protection activity.

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We know how important it is for our clients to be kept informed in a professional and easy-to-navigate format which is why we have made this latest upgrade. Take a look around, you will find it simple to find your product and submit multiple products for a quote. Go ahead – try it!

Our range of engineering services and products are all listed and displayed through our menus with the ability to add multiple options to a singular quote. The website will be consistently updated with news and product reviews to guarantee the best in service. And as most of you know our products are tailored provide solutions in the oil, gas, mining, marine, water and petrochemical industries.

If you would like any information on products, services or our company, please don’t hesitate to contact our head office if submitting a quote does not suit you. In the meantime, feel free to take a look around our new website.

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• Friday – Phil Burns (TDC Drilling)
• Saturday – Mark Bunker (Santos)

Phil & Mark have both won themselves a $100 gift voucher of their choice. Congratulations to you both!To all others who played – better luck next year!

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Please call or email us at Anode Engineering or Lordco for a friendly discussion on the latest technology used in our industry.

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The Electrobraze system provides the ability to attach 6, 8, 10 & 12mm threaded pins as well as direct brazing of crimp terminals from 2.5mm² cable right the way up to 120mm² including all the commonly used sizes in between such as 6, 16 & 35mm² cables.

The system comes complete ready for remote use with a battery pack in a rugged waterproof housing that will fire around 80- 100 pins on a charge and another rugged case for transporting the marine grade stainless steel gun. The unit doesn’t rely on electronic components to operate which means it’s incredibly reliable and the ergonomic design makes it easy to operate day in- day out.

The Electrobraze System is preferred over traditional banding methods due to the lower heat transfer to the substrate metal. The Electrobraze System thus lowers the incidence of copper penetration.

We offer free training for every unit purchased and have a demo system available if you would like to see it in person simply contact us at Anode Engineering.

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This year the conference was held in Perth and all indications point to it being an unbridled success. The Anode stand was well patronised, many old friends stopped by and many new friends were made. Ross and Wayne from Anode Engineering were joined by Hamilton from GPT. Hamilton was able to assist many of our customers and prospects understand the finer points of flange isolation and sealing technologies. Of particular interest was the new VCS-id isolation gasket, developed to overcome the shorting across flanges due to metallic build-up. Details on the www.anodeengineering.com and www.lordco.co.nz/ websites.

Ross Darrigan was introduced to the industry and as an ex-APA network manager, he was able to fit in straight away. The conference was successful in many ways, with new projects and potential services being discussed with a great many companies, to the highlighting of the Dairyland electrical grounding, isolation and overvoltage protection systems. The Dairyland cows were a hit (see picture below). Ross, Wayne and Hamilton assembled a great many cow facts over the few days at the conference. Did you know that the Dairyland systems were developed after dairy cows were found to have been affected by stray voltages from dairy power system earthing leakage?

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