New hot water heater

[Hambone]

I recently installed a new electric hot water heater. I am on a well that has iron and sulfer. Have a softener that takes the stuff out. But since installing new heater the hot water smells. The cold water is fine. Never could smell hot water before installing new hot water heater.
Any suggestions?

 

[Inspector507]

Replace the anode with, I think, a magnesium one.

 

[Hambone]

Okay, where does the anode go? Are they hard to change? Are they expensive? Where do you get them?

Thanks!

 

[DAP]

Ham ... the softener won't do a very good job on the sulphur, whether it's the bacteria form or the particulate form. I have the same problem and the only viable solution I could afford was a chlorination system. That's a whole thread unto itself.

Check with the manufacturer and see if the anode rod can be removed and replaced with something else or left out entirely.

This is a bandade approach however. Do NOT do as others have done and pour bleach directly into your well. You will kill your water - dead water is no good.

 

[Gatorboy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ... recently installed a new electric hot water heater )</font>

Does hot water really have to be heated? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Hambone]

That was good Dave, I even had to read it again to see what you were saying.

Of course, that coming from someone that doesn't understand binary. I don't even know what that is.

 

[Gatorboy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Of course, that coming from someone that doesn't understand binary. I don't even know what that is. )</font>

Let me try the 30 second lesson:

We use a numbering system that is base-10, meaning that we have digits 0-9. When counting up, once we reach 9 and have to increment again, we cycle back to 0 and increment the next colum to the left (e.g. 10)

Binary is base-2, meaning that the only valid digits are 0-1 (as in computers only talk 1's and 0's), so when counting up, once we reach 1 and have to increment again, we cycle back to 0 and increment the next column to the left. So 10 in binary is really 2 in base-10.

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
BASE 2 BASE 10
----------------------
0 0
1 1
10 2
11 3
100 4
101 5
110 6
111 7
1000 8
1001 9
1010 10

</pre><hr />

 

[DAP]

Sorry Dave, you've just destroyed the mystique of your sig/quote. Time to change it methinks. Cat's outta the bag so to speak.

 

[Hambone]

Thanks Dave.
I was hoping it wasn't a religious cult or something.

 

[Richard]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( see if the anode rod can be removed and replaced with something else or left out entirely. )</font>


I'm not a water heater expert, but I DID stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

My understanding of the anode rod is it's the "sacraficial lamb" and through the use of the heater over time, the rod will be what gets eaten away, rather than (insert what ever the main item is, that the anode rod protects...).

Clear as mud? Upshot, you might NOT want to simply remove it.

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