When I plate in the chrome tank I like to look at my volts instead of the amps, just a little trick I learned from a plater. My 300 amp rect. has a 8 volt meter, I take the the volts to about 7.5 for (5) sec. and then drop down to 5.5 for 1 min. and if the parts are small I hang a dumy piece on the rack to take some of the current. The reason for going to 7.5 for 5 sec. is to make sure the whole piece gets covered, because the first 5 sec. is when it gets its plating, the last few sec. is just plating over what you plated in the first 5 sec. of plating.
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