Heater element borehole water (lemmy.world)

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Is there a better way to heat up my geyser that uses borehole water? The area I live in has no reliable water unless you drill a borehole. Every three months I change out my copper elements in my geyser. I am just asking since it is a pain in the butt

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[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

NGL, at first I was kind of concerned that you had a "geyser" so close to your house until I realized it was probably another term for what my American brain calls a "water heater".

Someone else suggested a water softener which would help a lot. Aside from that, does your geyser have a sacrificial anode? If so, when was the last time you replaced it?

[-] notaviking@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Sorry we have weird names here in South Africa, a traffic light we call a robot, a fuel station a garage and in my example a water heater a geyser. I apologise I did not know no one calls the water heater a geyser apart from us.

I will look into the softener idea a bit, but yeah my anode is usually replaced on a nine month to yearly basis as well. But yeah the anode is usually almost completely dissolved or corroded away by then.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

You have to replace it when it still has some magnesium on it, it stops working otherwise

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