Failure of the chromium plating layer is not necessarily related to the plating solution

Failure of the chromium plating layer is not necessarily related to the plating solution

Fri Jun 06 09:02:30 CST 2025

When using decorative chrome additives, in order to ensure the quality of the plated layer, the plating plant should use a low ripple DC output power supply. However, in actual production, plating failures can also occur if not operated properly.

Even for the low ripple DC output power supply, the DC output waveform may be deteriorated or even mutilated due to the lack of phase in the power supply, or damage to the internal components of the rectifier, at which time the chrome-plating effect will be deteriorated.

Therefore, when there is a sudden deterioration of the effect of chrome plating, plating plant technicians need to first check the rectifier DC output ripple is normal, and not first of all the components of the plating solution (such as chrome plating additives and the main salt) to do a blind adjustment, or not necessarily be able to quickly troubleshooting to solve the problem (it is recommended that the usual use of oscilloscopes to determine the DC waveform).

A plating plant in the large production has had lessons: decorative set of chromium, the morning is normal, the afternoon suddenly chrome layer of white spots, yellow spots, suspected that there are problems with the plating solution, chromium plating solution repeatedly with sulfuric acid, barium carbonate, chromic anhydride adjusted to try two days, not only to try a whole lot of workpiece pile up, and can not be adjusted to the total good.

Introduced by a friend, contacted the decorative chrome additive supplier Bigely engineer to help. Asked about the occurrence of the fault, as the plating solution will not change suddenly (not adjusted), the engineer judged that the problem must be in the rectifier.

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