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mountainborn
Explorer
Dec 14, 2014

SACRIFICIAL ANODE, other than the hot water heater ?

Most RVer's know about making periodical checks of the Hot Water heater's sacrificial anode. Yet, I have talked with some that have additional anode's that they have little familiarity with. Here is t...
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Sport45
Explorer II
Dec 16, 2014
Veebyes wrote:
Water-Bug wrote:
Dave H M wrote:
So who changes their anode in the stick home? Mine is 14 year old teen ager now. :h


Obviously Veebyes does.


Not I. I understand how a zinc works on a boat. It is useless without water. How it can work in the air is beyond me.


Yeah, an anode is pretty much useless without an electrolyte. And air is useless as an electrolyte.

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