Plain Ol' Water!

bennyboy2606 · 22 Jun 2008 at 22:15

Hey, Can't get any distilled water at the moment, would plain water be ok for my watercooling setup, I will be adding G11 Coolant and Petra's Tech "Pt_nuke" biocide.

Thanks
Ben x

virdee2 · 22 Jun 2008 at 22:19

i think its a bit more dangeropous to use normal water in an electrical system mate. cant you find any deionised water from your nearest car/garage shop? i got mine from there and its exactly the same as the feser stuff just without the cool colours etc :-)

the deioniosed stuff stops short circuiting in case of any spillage.

bennyboy2606 · 22 Jun 2008 at 22:21

virdee2 said:
i think its a bit more dangeropous to use normal water in an electrical system mate. cant you find any deionised water from your nearest car/garage shop? i got mine from there and its exactly the same as the feser stuff just without the cool colours etc

the deioniosed stuff stops short circuiting in case of any spillage.

Will do Halfords do the job ?

thefishdude · 22 Jun 2008 at 22:22

yeah halfords will have deionised water its used in some type of car batteries.

virdee2 · 22 Jun 2008 at 22:25

yeh thats the stuff i used, its only a pound or so... (relatively expensive mind you...for water :-)

but what can you do)

weescott · 22 Jun 2008 at 22:30

Halfords or a local garage. Normal tap water is ok for short periods of time if you live in a soft water area, else you will get a limescale build up and poor temperatures.

bennyboy2606 · 22 Jun 2008 at 22:49

Halfords or a local garage. Normal tap water is ok for short periods of time if you live in a soft water area, else you will get a limescale build up and poor temperatures.

Don't get limescale build up in my pipes at home, but it's only for my test run anyways, to make sure theres no leaks

Will install it properly tomorrow with that stuff from halfords

Glad I'm not having to pay £8 for Feser Coolant, so £1 is fine by me, plus I have some blue dye

Richie P · 22 Jun 2008 at 22:52

Halfords, or I found 2L Deionised water tubs at Tesco's for about £1.50 a pop.

bru · 22 Jun 2008 at 23:20

what additives do you intend to use if any, i did hear that a small amount of anti freeze is a good idea.

bennyboy2606 · 22 Jun 2008 at 23:46

bru said:
what additives do you intend to use if any, i did hear that a small amount of anti freeze is a good idea.

Like I said above, I have G11 Coolant, and Petra's Tech "Pt_nuke" Biocide.

bru · 22 Jun 2008 at 23:55

so you did.....its late .....well thats my excuse

platinum87 · 23 Jun 2008 at 04:20

de-ionised water = distilled water = water with no impurities , such as calcium, trace metals etc etc.. absolutely pure water doesnt conduct. particles will eventually enter it and cause it to become conductive..

so, none of that, only normal tap water? - no problem!

boil water ---> condense water ---> collect it in a glass container and bingo!

weescott · 23 Jun 2008 at 04:29

platinum87 said:
de-ionised water = distilled water = water with no impurities , such as calcium, trace metals etc etc.. absolutely pure water doesnt conduct. particles will eventually enter it and cause it to become conductive..

so, none of that, only normal tap water? - no problem!

Not true. Have a look at the sticky.

Part 1 and 2:

http://www.overclockers.com/articles993/

platinum87 · 26 Jun 2008 at 12:50

weescott said:
Not true. Have a look at the sticky.

Part 1 and 2:

http://www.overclockers.com/articles993/

of course you can use distilled water! and your own article this is what the guy has wrote

Recommendation: I highly recommend using steam-distilled water as the primary coolant.

and id rather people dont post, than just link to articles. put the line or two which is relevent in a quote box.

In general, most brands of purified drinking water will be OK to use in your PC water-cooling system.

i didnt know they had "soft" water to drink, you want to drink hard-water, because lots more minerals for your body.

but anyway, is your point that he shouldnt use distilled water? because that would be wrong, if you tried to point out a flaw in the other stuff, than that doesnt really help the OP does it?

weescott · 26 Jun 2008 at 15:39

I was posting an informative and relevant link. A lot more than can be posted in a quote. Merely pointing out that there is a difference between distilled and deionised water, but for all intent and purpose either will do as per the information in the link provided.

platinum87 · 29 Jun 2008 at 01:22

weescott said:
I was posting an informative and relevant link. A lot more than can be posted in a quote. Merely pointing out that there is a difference between distilled and deionised water, but for all intent and purpose either will do as per the information in the link provided.

if you get what im saying, you post quotes of only relevant info, for example an essay for uni, you dont put quotes to articles, you quote the parts.

but yes i know they are not the same, its just essentially in terms of conductivity which i was referring to anyway

edit: posting the link is fine, but you should have posted the key points, im not about to read every 10 page article people post randomly! i dont have so much time!

weescott · 29 Jun 2008 at 09:50

OK, Thanks for telling me how to post. :rolleyes: