about silver kill coil

[matas17]

So i am thinking of replacing my mayhems UV white pastel liquid with mayhems pure h2o and dyes and also thinking of using XT1 with my loops which has Alphacool PETG tubing.

The only problem i can think of in my loop is the pump, since the pump pulls liquid from the reservoir and i am worried that pump might suck in silver kill coil in and destroy itself. So i was wondering is there any fitting or some small fitting that would let liquid through but stop the silver kill coil from getting sucked into a pump.

Second question would be, I read in a lot of places that petg tubing will be cloudy if used with mayhems xt1 coolant, is that true from your own experience or is it actual facts?

 

[Undesirable]

You're not supposed to use PETG tubing with XT-1 Nuke at all, according to this chart:

Having said that, I've have never been able to avoid cloudy flexible tubing with either X1 and XT-1. I used Primoflex AdvancedLRT with Mayhems X1 and Mayhems Ultra Clear with their XT-1 Nuke fluid. Both became cloudy within a year, possibly even within 6 months (it's hard to see sometimes unless you drain the fluid and / or check inside your case regularly).

It's possible that my cloudiness issue could be down to contamination. I have never given my radiators an acid bath and every time I've drained the coolant, there's either been gunk or bits floating around. So for the greatest chance of retaining clear tubing long term, I would recommend giving your radiator(s) an acid bath with either a Mayhems Blitz kit part 1 or similar, and also cleaning out your entire loop with Mayhems Blitz kit part 2 or similar.

A more crude, but less expensive way of cleaning the radiator is to flush it with hot 60 degrees tap water, flush it again several times with purified water then run the radiator alone attached to a water pump with an inline filter on the OUTLET port of the radiator to catch any 'bits' that may still be present. Then clean the filter and run it inside your actual loop to catch any long term 'bits'.

Don't use an inline filter if running Mayhems Pastel or Aurora though.



Conveniently enough, the inline filter would also stop a silver kill coil from getting in the pump if you put one between the reservoir and the pump.