In action, and especially with heavy currents of high  pressure, electrolytic breaks are very noisy; so the whole cell  and attachments should be cased in felt, to deaden the sound,  and the break should be kept in a separate closed room where  possible.

With heavy work the electrolyte becomes very soon heated,  and operation of the break is thereby embarrassed, and later  stopped. A cell of large capacity should therefore be employed  to delay the heating effect, and that may be set into a larger  vessel containing cold water if continuous heavy work is  expected.

The cells require no cleaning, which is a great convenience.  For use with currents of small quantity and low potential,  as from batteries, these breaks are unsuitable.  They require for efficient working a current of about  40 volts or more, will not work under 30, and work best  between 60 and 80 volts. Unless for specially strong currents  indeed, such a break is not advisable, since its action is not  reliable enough to commend it for ordinary purposes for  which other breaks may serve.

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