Investigation of Silver Plated Conductor Corrosion (Red Plague) AIR4487

This SAE Aerospace Information Report (AIR) shall be limited to information about cuprous/cupric oxide corrosion of silver plated conductors. It examines some possible causes and some recommendations to minimize the possibility of its occurrence. It also provides a number of reference documents that describe the corrosion in detail, methods to determine conductor damage, methods to produce the corrosion, and other investigative reports of this phenomena and their conclusions.