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mrweasel
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I think I must have misread that...you're watercooling a production server??? R U Nuts?
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Little Bruin
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edvallie
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Evil_spork
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| HackaX0rus wrote: | | i know spork had a minor drip in his that he caught before it did any damge it jsut formed a little puddle at the bottom of his case. |
the clamp on my pump was on funny/wrong. it ended up as a minor drip that i caught while still in the testing phase of setup. i adjusted the clamp and it stopped. never had a problem since.
the lucite top of my waterblock is even cracked and it hasnt leaked yet.
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Kilamon
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edvallie
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| Posted: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:33:38 Post Subject: |
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| Kilamon wrote: | | Why not use distilled water? As I recall from chemistry, water is nonconductive but the salts and impurities in the water make it able to conduct since it's no longer a pure solution of water. |
A lot of people do use distilled water when water cooling, just incase of a slip up and a slight leak. |
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Doctor Feelgood
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thePMG
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| Posted: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:07:20 Post Subject: |
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I had 3 full years of near continuous running with no leaks on my Koolance. I ran a 60/40 mix of plain tap water and regular antifreeze.
The impurities in water are what make it electricly conductive. When you use distilled water and an additive to inhibit corrosion (Coolermaster fluid, Koolance fluid, antifreeze, etc), guess what you just did to your distilled water? Yep, made it electrically conductive. Running pure distilled water is also a bad idea, as there is most likely enough junk (dust, oil from pump bearings, whatever came off the funnel you used to put the water into the system, etc) to make the water impure and conductive again, and galvanic corrosion will set in anyways.
So in conclusion, use hose clamps, double check your work, and if you are that paranoid, use a specialized non conductive coolant.
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Little Bruin
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Evil_spork
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| thePMG wrote: | I had 3 full years of near continuous running with no leaks on my Koolance. I ran a 60/40 mix of plain tap water and regular antifreeze.
The impurities in water are what make it electricly conductive. When you use distilled water and an additive to inhibit corrosion (Coolermaster fluid, Koolance fluid, antifreeze, etc), guess what you just did to your distilled water? Yep, made it electrically conductive. Running pure distilled water is also a bad idea, as there is most likely enough junk (dust, oil from pump bearings, whatever came off the funnel you used to put the water into the system, etc) to make the water impure and conductive again, and galvanic corrosion will set in anyways.
So in conclusion, use hose clamps, double check your work, and if you are that paranoid, use a specialized non conductive coolant. |
what he said. if you use your head you wont have any troubles save for the extremely rare freak event
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