Originally Posted by
dennis13030
I agree. It's terminology. I'm an electronics engineer and I am OK with calling a plate inside the eletrolyzer that is not WIRED up as a neutral plate. I know the plate is biased because it is sitting in the electrolyte and between the anode and cathode.
It's sorta like saying that a secondary coil of a transformer is isolated from the primary. If it was completely isolated, it would not function. In this case, it just passes the AC component and blocks the DC component.