anti-electrolysis zinc anode

[Stevemiana]

What to get everyone's opinion about this.

Just saw this was a thing yesterday.

Thanks

 

[ajw22]

Waste of money on your vinyl pool.

What things in your vinyl pool do you think a zinc anode would protect?

 

[Stevemiana]

Waste of money on your vinyl pool.

What things in your vinyl pool do you think a zinc anode would protect?

I was thinking more along the heater, pump

Just asking

 

[ajw22]

Does the heater or pump- manufacture recommend using a zinc anode?

What model heater and pump do you have?

 

[JoyfulNoise]

These are gimmicks. Typical of most products like this - they take a scientific principal that sounds reasonable and apply it to a situation where it will not do any good. Then they get to either sell you the product over and over again or some consumable related to the product. All the while they keep you hooked by playing on your anxieties over a catastrophe that will never happen. Or you get the standard Facebook advice that some random person posts about how their grandmother’s mailman’s sister-in-law’s boyfriend is a college professor who “studies” this stuff “in-depth” and absolutely advises everyone to get one because it’s based on “science” and, hey, it can’t hurt, right?

Save your money, buy a good test kit, keep your water properly balanced and your pool will be fine.

 

[Stevemiana]

These are gimmicks. Typical of most products like this - they take a scientific principal that sounds reasonable and apply it to a situation where it will not do any good. Then they get to either sell you the product over and over again or some consumable related to the product. All the while they keep you hooked by playing on your anxieties over a catastrophe that will never happen. Or you get the standard Facebook advice that some random person posts about how their grandmother’s mailman’s sister-in-law’s boyfriend is a college professor who “studies” this stuff “in-depth” and absolutely advises everyone to get one because it’s based on “science” and, hey, it can’t hurt, right?

Save your money, buy a good test kit, keep your water properly balanced and your pool will be fine.

I think my question has been answered, thank you guys

 

[Toxophilite]

In order for one to be beneficial, you need two connected dissimilar metals in the water you are protecting by sacrificing the zinc. Most all metal objects to a pool are pretty much isolated. Ironically, if you connect a zinc anode to a metal object in the pool you have by default created the need for it. If it's just hanging out in the water, it's just hanging there doing nothing. Leave it be.