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    Views on water additives?

    Hope this thread is in teh right place?? Anyway, just wanted to see what people add to their water cooling loops. Ive always just used a bit of antifreeze, is it so much better to use water wetter or similar - ive heard people reckon the temps are decreased - so is this rubbish or not?

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    I use nothing and look what happens



    but that was with a copper/aluminium mix which is not good .

    Anyway this is pretty cool article on the benifits/disadvantages of methanol and antifreeze which explains it all clearly.

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    Ouch!! that looks nasty turkster! Thanks for the linky - im going to give it a read now

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    hmmm, so methanol may perform quite well, but in a rig used at home it doesnt sound like a good idea! What about commercial additives like water wetter etc??

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    Commerical additives tend to have other compounds in to aid the system in not getting algae floating around in them as if that happened its a right pain in the rear to clean the system 100% of this growth. As long as you use a 1/3 ratio i.e 33.33333333% Propylene Glycol based additive to 66.666666 % water then the system should not have a problem staying floaty bit free and also provide the cooling you require. Deviate from this and if you use more PG based additive then you'll be looking at higher temperatures.

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    I cba having 1/2 of my system filled with crappy additives. I see no evidence that they work. Purple ice, for example, is proven not to work (corrosion and algy). Water wetter smells like dead rats, and zerex is hard to get, also note they they all cost a lot more than they should (unless you by a big bottle direct from a car related shop, the industry these products are designed for!).

    Also most chemicals used as additives are also poisnious, so dont use it if the system is not sealed. Water will evaporate and if you breath it, it will harm you in the long term. Glycol is quite poisnous, from what I remember

    From my experience its best to aviod galvanic corrosion compleatly in the first place.

    Using de-ionised/distilled water is important to start with.

    Next make sure there are no dis-similar metals touching that are wetted. Copper and aluminuim are the obvious ones. The pic above shows what happns if they are

    If aluminuim is not touching any dis-similar wetted metals, then its use in a copper system is usually ok. Ive had a laing d4 pump for many months now, when it arrived, the impeller was poorly annodised, however there is no evidence of corrosion yet. The impeller is usually the most likely place to corrode (excluding where dis-similar wetted metals touch) and also the metal casing was fine (which was wetted), thats also alu.

    My system also has a lot of other metals,some of which are:
    Copper, alu, silver, chrome, lead (solder), brass (copper+ zinc), bronze (tin + copper, used as solder)

    That should prevent cossosion, almost compleatly.

    Next theres algy. I prefer the simple solution to use 2mlof biocide per 2 liters of water, of course, taken from where I work. This stuff is used with industrial chillers, to prevent legionairs disease and other such things, so it definatly works. Wish I remembered what it was called....

    I dont think performance difference is really going to be noticable...

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