I’m surprised they haven’t thought of clothing!

David

> On 29 Apr 2021, at 10:52 am, Mal Rowe mal.rowe@...> wrote:

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> On 29/04/2021 10:20, David Batho wrote:

>> That should be “shock”, not “sock”! Hopefully my post now makes more sense…

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> Damn! I was hoping for Sydney Light Rail themed clothing. Yarra trams did hand out "Love Your Trams" t-shirts for a while.

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> Getting back to the topic - there's a simplified article about electrolysis on the Melbourne Tram Museum website.

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> http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/papers/electrolysis.htm

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> When the approach is to insulate the rails from the surrounding environment there will be a small voltage difference between the rails and surrounding objects connected to the 'real ground'. If there was no voltage difference then you would not need electrolysis mitigation.

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> However, it will be small so the risk of anything more than a slight tingle is minimal.

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> Mal Rowe in a city that used the 'boot' on curves to provide rail resilience prior to the introduction of the current track laying techniques

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