Corro-Protec™ Powered Anode Rod for Water Heater, 20-Year Warranty, Eliminates Rotten Egg/Sulfur Smell within 24 hours, Stops Corrosion and Reduces Limescale, Electrical Anode Rod Made of Titanium

I tried everything under the sun to get rid of the foul rotten eggs smell in my hot water: filters with UV lamps, flushing the tank, sterilized it, increase temperature, aluminum anode, nothing worked more than a few days. Installed this product, was very easy ( you will need an impact gun with the proper socket of 1 1/16 for the original anode and 1 3/16 to install this product), but it worked, the very first day. Been enjoying smell free water for a week now and feel totally satisfied with this anode. Stop wasting your time with useless tricks from the web, if your well water has sulfur smell, install one of these on any brand new water heater and call it a day.

installed this at 6pm on a Wednesday night, by 5:30am the next morning the sulfur smell was completely cone. Very easy to install although I do have a complaint that you have to buy a 1-3/16 deepwell socket which is NOT a standard size in any of my sets of impact sockets and I found it kind of ridiculous since all the other annode rods were 1-1/16 including the one on my tank. Why make everyone buy a special size???? Other than that this works extremely well so far, let's hope it is quality and lasts.

I thought I left a review on this months ago. We had been dealing with the same rotton egg smell from our hot water tank. Our contractor told us we needed to replace the tank, so we did. Smell went away for a month or so and came back as bad as ever. I asked him about powered anodes and he poo-pooed it. Drained it a few times and flushed it with bleach, all to no avail. People weren't coming up to our cottage because of the smell. My kids wouldn't shower at the cottage because of it, limiting our stay durations. Finally decided to give this a shot. The difference was noticeable within several hours. By the next weekend, the smell was entirely gone. Now, nearly a year later, everything still smells fine. Family who visit every now and then have commented on how much better it is. I wish I had bought this years ago - I would have saved money and enjoyed the cottage more. Installation was easy, and I am not particularly handy. I was a little worried about drilling a hole for the grounding screw, but I shouldn't have. If your hot water smells bad, this is what you need. Don't waste any time. If I could give 6 stars, I would. One of my best purchases, ever.

Easy to install. So far it is working as advertised.

The odor in the hot water (on a well) started showing up this year on a 6 year old water heater. It's been a month since installed and the odor from the hot water hasn't returned. It was easy to install. I used a 1 1/16 socket with impact to remove the old one. The new rode will take a 1 3/16 socket, but if you don't have one and since the rod's head sticks up from the heater you can probably use a cresson or pipe wrench to put it in. My old anode rod was 6 years old, and still had plenty of metal left on it, however it was corroded a lot, so my old rode was probably not working anymore. A new normal rode might have also corrected the problem, but I chose to use a powered one, so will see if it holds up long term.