Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a fishing rod outrodder including a fishing rod holder having an expanded first portion, a tubular second portion and a narrowed third portion. The active splitter may include a plurality of active circuits connected in parallel that produce the plurality of split output signals from the received input signal, where each active circuit of the plurality of active circuits produces a corresponding split output signal from the plurality of split output signals that is substantially similar to the received input signal. A value of infrared energy reflected from the metallic substrate with the corrosion product is determined. As the DC power provided by the light load power supplying circuit is small, the switching loss ratio is lower in its light load state.