Maintenance on a Water Cooling Loop

[Surfie]

Hi All,

I found on another site a guide for the maintenance of a water cooling loop. Given that the advice in question is >2.5 years old, would the advice still be relevant?

If it is, what are the ways in which I can avoid/minimise the maintenance of a water cooling loop?

And before any one wonders why I haven't included the link (thus enabling more helpful comments), be advised that I can not. I already had a post removed for containing said link.

Thanks for the advice!

 

[B NEGATIVE]

Change tubing every six months/1 year and dont run dye.

Split and clean blocks once in a while to check for growth of any sort.

Use a good biocide or silver coil.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Dye is fine to run. The 'clogging' is just the growth you get with any system tainted by the dye.

Biocide is always a good idea.

 

[B NEGATIVE]

Dye is fine to run. The 'clogging' is just the growth you get with any system tainted by the dye.

Biocide is always a good idea.

He wants minimum maintenance so dye is the first to go
If you want colours then go for coloured tube,clear tubing is a minefield of bad clarity and plasticizer,its the plasticizer that causes most clogging,the dye just stains the gunk.
Plasticizer is worse with clear tubing,black is the best.

Dont add CU biocide to any glycol premix
or you get this....

 

[Surfie]

Great. Thanks for the heads up!

When it comes to tubing, I was considering UV reactive tubes, or clear tubes with UV reactive dye, and then running a combination of LEDS in the case that simulates black light, lighting them up (hopefully).

Knowing that these can (potentially) clog up a system is great to know, and knowing how to maintain/minimise this effect is even better.

Thanks for the replies!

 

[Reily234]

I would just mayhem's concentrates mixed with de-i water