| RustStop® RS-5 (formerly Rust
Stop RS2000) electronic rust prevention successfully combines both
Impressed Current and Sacrificial Anode technologies and effectively
overcomes the limitations of "classic cathodic protection" to help
prevent rust on vehicles. |
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Rust is basically an
electrochemical process. The RustStop® RS-5 System works like a "rust
magnet" attracting electrons that would otherwise be rusting your
vehicle. The RustStop® Rust Magnets™ then corrode, instead of
your vehicle, giving Visual Proof that the System is preventing rust!
This diagram shows the
RustStop® System turned OFF. As you can see, the Free Electron is
reacting with the Iron Atom and causing rust.
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| Sacrificial Anode: When installing
RustStop®, four sacrificial anodes, termed "Rust Magnets™", are
strategically located and attached to the vehicle where water will
collect or run. When the RustStop® System is turned ON, a positive
charge of +45 volts is applied onto these Rust Magnets™ (sacrificial
anodes) by the RustStop® Command Module. This causes the Iron Atoms and
Impurity Atoms to have a negative charge (-) compared to the Rust
Magnets™. The Free Electrons are now pulled through the steel to the
Rust Magnets™ at +45V instead of to the negatively charged Iron Atoms
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When these Free Electrons
arrive at the Rust Magnets™, the Rust Magnets™ corrode (sacrifice). This
means that the corrosion that forms on the Rust Magnets™ would have been
corrosion forming somewhere else on the vehicle.
The
RustStop® Rust Magnets™ (sacrificial anodes) corrode
giving
Visual Proof that the system is preventing rust.
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You will see a visual indication that it is preventing rust !
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Note: RustStop® RS-5
electronic rust prevention functions
extremely well due to the fact that the
output voltage on the Rust Magnets™ is
stepped-up to 45 volts, thus creating a
large voltage difference between the vehicle
and the Rust Magnets™, this in turn means
the attraction of the Free Electrons to the
Rust Magnets™ is exceptionally strong making
this system very effective. |
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| Impressed Current: The essential factor in
impressed current is that the Free Electrons in the steel of the vehicle
are controlled by the application of an impressed current from the
RustStop® RS-5 Command Module. The normal weak attraction of Free
Electrons toward the Iron Atoms is now disrupted by forcing a uniform
flow of Free Electrons (impressed current) throughout the metal of the
vehicle. In short, the constant flow of Free Electrons in the metal
helps prevent them from reacting with the Iron Atoms as rust. |
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| RustStop® RS-5 uses both Sacrificial
Anode and Impressed Current technologies to be the most effective
electronic vehicle rust prevention system available. |
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