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Basically im thinking of putting one in my loop but im not going to be using any dye in the coolant , would there be any real benefit to doing this? At the moment i have 2 kill coils in there.
Benefits of a loop filter ?
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Do you know what they are classed as on OCUK ? I cant find the section they're in lol
I tryed "filter" and "loop filter" with no results.
Soldato
Actually, yes.
Koolance Inline Filter is the one I use, not really available in OcUK but you can get one if you search around.
Koolance Inline Filter is the one I use, not really available in OcUK but you can get one if you search around.
Thanks , just had a quick look, gonna buy a few of those.
Soldato
You don't need a few, just one, in front of your drain valve it'll be fine.
note the direction of the mesh, if you place it right all the debris it filtered will be drained out instead of trapped in the loop when you drain the fluid.
Also, don't put more than 1 in a loop, the finer the mesh the more resistance it pose to the pump.
Man of Honour
Most of my loop is external to the case so I have one of these fitted (I only paid £6.99 for it last year). I needed a male and a female 3/4" to G1/4" adaptors so I could fit standard water cooling fittings to it which I got from a online plumbing retailer. It filters very fine stuff but because the actual filter is quite large and long it doesn't restrict flow at all. You couldn't use one in a case though unless you had a large secondary compartment to hide it away.
I could use one of those pasty muncher but the place i would have to put it in would change the look of how the tubing is now, whick i like. Gonna have to be a koolance filter.
Don
Phobya do filters with an expanded body that won't have a significant impact on flow. Personally I'm not convinced there is a benefit to it if you've flushed your loop when putting it together but it won't do any harm having it in there.
Does anyone know who makes the filters that kind of look like a mini turbo?
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Man of Honour
Remove the competitor link before you get a holiday.
If you have a look on the bay Barrow do some nice looking inline filters.
If you have a look on the bay Barrow do some nice looking inline filters.
I didnt think it would matter because the part in question isnt stocked at OCUK but just incase i did anyway .
Man of Honour
They do sell other stuff that OCUK sells though so they count as a competitor.
An inline filter is always good if you don't open up your loop to make changes often because if crap doe build up in the system it takes longer for things to clog over time. Having said that modern CPU blocks and some GPU blocks use jet plates these days which means they filter the coolant and attract the crap (this make a filter more important as clogged jets will raise temps).
I think you mean flow rate sensors?
Thats what i was thinking of but at the time i thought it was a cool looking filter ...
Whats the full name of this? done some searching but couldn't find anything I considered expanded size for less flow resistance..
Thank you for any help!
Man of Honour
Like I said before, have a look at the very nice Barrow ones on ebay. They shouldn't affect flow rate either.
Barrow one work fine 
but do not add in direct line of flow, add a t-line in. If in direct line of flow and they do fill up they will cause back pressure. only ever seen it happen once in 20+ years of cooling but it was enough to put me off some of the cheaper ones. The koolance ones are brill.
but do not add in direct line of flow, add a t-line in. If in direct line of flow and they do fill up they will cause back pressure. only ever seen it happen once in 20+ years of cooling but it was enough to put me off some of the cheaper ones. The koolance ones are brill.