Acidrain:
What size bath are you running?
I'm sure you don't need a history lesson, but for those new to this forum, and to hobby anodizing, I would strongly urge you not to attempt CV anodizing on a small scale. The reasons are as follows:
When we first started offering hobby anodizing kits, over 10 years ago, we also used the CV method, because that's all there was, and the results were sometimes good, sometimes bad, offering very little consistency for the customer.
One part would anodize and dye fine, the next part, with the same dimensions, same parameters etc, would turn out completely differently. Trying to get the same color dyed part over a batch of identical parts was next to impossible.
With the help, and infinite wisdom of Fibergeek, we were able to trace the problems mostly to increased/fluctuating bath temperature due to fluctuating current, and the seemingly infinite combinations of current that parts were subjected to during the process. When hobbyist anodizers were anodizing in 5 gallon buckets, rather than large commercial tanks, the bath was unable to dissipate heat fast enough, and the fluctuations in temperature were causing parts to come out with widely differing pore sizes, and subsequently different shades of color. LCD solved this problem.
Is CC/LCD anodizing better than CV? On a small scale, I would say, absolutely yes! For me, the difference in the number of anodizing tech support calls we field speaks volumes. From 10+ a day, to 2-3 a week, and those calls are frequently from customers who have purchased dye from us and are still using CV anodizing in small buckets.
I'm sure that Randy from Absolute Finishes would scoff at the notion of LCD anodizing, as his method is working fine for him, and that's all he's ever known. Fibergeek was laughed at constantly by "professional" anodizers when he would contact them to talk about LCD anodizing. Metal finishers seems to be a real stubborn bunch!
A good question to research would be, at what point (bath size) does CV anodizing become the preferred method over LCD?
I'm interested to see how your experiments turn out, Acidrain.