| 1. | The system functions by maintaining the current at an auxiliary electrode.
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| 2. | This isolates the undesired redox events taking place at the auxiliary electrode.
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| 3. | There may be several auxiliary electrodes to aid in starting and maintaining the arc.
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| 4. | The auxiliary electrode may be isolated from the working electrode using a glass frit.
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| 5. | More complicated experiments may add working electrodes as required and at times reference or auxiliary electrodes.
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| 6. | The auxiliary electrode passes all the current needed to balance the current observed at the working electrode.
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| 7. | The auxiliary electrode functions as a cathode whenever the working electrode is operating as an anode and vice versa.
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| 8. | In the electrochemical polymerization at first an auxiliary electrode layer on the dielectric has to be applied and to be connected to the anode.
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| 9. | The auxiliary electrode can be almost anything as long as it doesn't react with the bulk of the analyte solution and conducts well.
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| 10. | The auxiliary electrode tries to keep the reference electrode at a certain reduction potential and to do this it has to balance the working electrode.
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