
Troubleshooting Noise in an Electrochemical System with a Rotator
DRK10039 (REV001 | JUN 2017)
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polishing the end of a brush rod with a sandpaper. First, remove the brush rod assembly from the clamshell door by
unscrewing it by hand. Then, take the brush rod out from its plastic housing, and polish the rod with a piece of
sandpaper. The sandpaper should be secured to a flat surface, and the brush rod is perpendicular to this surface
while being polished. To facilitate polishing with a defined perpendicular orientation, it may be advantageous to
hold the brush rod in a fixture, such as the chuck of a drill press. Brush contact rods should be replaced when the
carbon portion is about to be worn through. Replacement brush contacts can also be purchased.
2.4
Grounding the Rotator Motor
Electrical noise associated with the brush contacts can also be the result of electromagnetic interference from
either a nearby AC power supply or the rotator motor itself. For example, a rotator motor often emits magnetic field
into its surrounding space, and any unshielded signal line around the motor will likely pick up this noise source. The
frequency of electromagnetic noise could be the line-frequency (
60
𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻
) of the AC power supply or some other
frequencies generated from the rotator motor. Motor noise can sometimes be reduced by grounding the rotator
motor case. First, to check for motor case grounding, use a multimeter to measure the resistance between the
support post of the rotator and the chassis ground (the silver post)on the front panel of the rotator control unit. The
resistance should be less than
1
𝑂𝑂ℎ𝑚𝑚
. Next, connect the chassis ground of the rotator control unit to the chassis
ground of the potentiostat. For the WaveDriver series potentiostats, the chassis ground is a silver post (banana
socket connector) on the back panel. The Pine Research CBP bipotentiostat chassis ground is a silver post on the
front panel beneath the electrode connections. For WaveNow series potentiostats, the chassis ground is shorted to
the DC common by default, and the DC common can be accessed through the black banana plug of the
WaveNow cell cable. Optionally, the chassis ground can be attached to an earth ground in the lab or to a large
metal conductor such as the main metal post of the rotator (see: Figure 2).
Figure 2. Schematic of Grounding the Rotator to the Potentiostat
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