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You know, that gets me to thinking: Why have a sacrificial anode when they could just throw a 3V power supply in there and have it last forever?

It's always got power, it's attached to the house...
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It's the same mechanism, you're basically leapfrogging the galvanic series by putting something with a better potential for ions to chip away at instead of your iron. With a sacrificial anode you're basically making a battery, but you could just as easily use a power supply and do the same thing.

Both forms of corrosion protection do behave differently depending on water type including water hardness.