Patent ID: 6315876
Filing Date: 2001-11-13
Classification: C23F

Abstract:
A packaged cathodic protection system for the protection of a guy anchor structure and the like comprising a test station, reference cell, and at least one anode, said system including a connection adapted to be electrically secured to said structure, a first electrical lead from the connection to the test station, and a second electrical lead from the connection to said anode, said second electrical lead including a shunt comprising a calibrated resistance wire which is encapsulated in said test station, and a third electrical lead from the reference cell to the test station, said test station including a pair of studs exposed at a top of a tube for reading a cell-to-structure potential and a pair of studs exposed at the top of said tube for reading an anode-to-structure current, wherein the connections to said studs are encapsulated at the top of said tube, and spacing of the studs to read the cell-to-structure potential is different than spacing of the studs to read the anode-to-structure current, whereby a probe with fixedly spaced electrodes can contact one pair of said studs but not the other pair of said studs.