Yup I have noticed that as well with the Primo LRT black. Just used distilled and no additives. However the tubes insides still turn white no matter what the tubing or what water treatment. That part is still a mystery to me.
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I've been running Feser One Blue and Feser One Red on two loops in my machine and I have yet to encounter any problems whatsoever. The machine has been either gaming or folding 24/7 for 6+ months and everything is still clean as a whistle. I wonder how well a lot of these people cleaned their radiators and parts before they put the system together. I read this thread and many others like it for weeks before I redid my loops and settled on the Feser fluid. My conclusion? dirty parts are putting gunk into the loops and the water blocks are just filtering it out.
The only coolant I've seen problems with is with PC Ice and those terrible dye bombs. I had an old bottle of premix PC Ice for YEARS and the dye never came out of solution. Had one bottle with a blue dye bomb and it settled out within a week. Now it just sits in my closet with all the dye at the bottom.
Of course, your mileage may (and will) vary, and this is just my experience, but I wanted to weigh in on this.
Hi Linus! Got a question for you, I am going to use the Primoflex LRT tubing in my loop with distilled water. But my Feser rads say that my warranty is void if I use distilled water because it doesn't have a corrosion blocker. Now my 480 Feser came with a corrosion blocker solution.
Would it be ok to use the water blocks and rads after flushing with distilled water and then add this whole bottle of corrosion blocker with distilled water?
I don't want to mess this up, any help would be great!!
Corrosion is only a problem when you are using aluminum in a loop with copper/brass. That crap you got with the rad is just under 70% ethylene glycol. On top of the "nasty stuff" in the link, it also hurts thermal transfer to the water due to a much lower thermal capacity.
is the problem just with feser coolants
is the Aquatuning Protect UV Blue safe to use or should i just go distilled
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Yep, distilled is best. Any dye stuff can give you issues. Moe often than not experianced watercoolers use distilled for ease of use. Some custom builders that always rebuild etc use colored stuff, but they know the pitfalls and accept the fact.
It's up to you.
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Hi, I recently finished my first WC build. I was using Feser UV dye additive to my distilled water + PTnuke PHN but after reading this thread I drained my loop and refilled it with just distilled + PTnuke. I really liked the look of the UV dye but I guess I'll just replace the tubing with some UV tubing later on instead. Anyways, do you think I need to take apart my loop and clean the various parts out to get any remaining dye out? Or would the small residual amount not be a concern? I have a Apogee XT cpu block and a MCR-320 rad in my loop with a D5 pump and a microres. I notice that there does seem to be some uv-reactive film in my reservoir where the top level of water used to sit and I wonder if there may be more of that stuff in my cpu block or rad.
distilled water, one of the best and cheapest cooling coolants
//but I thought feser is specialized in coolant?!
you are damnly right, they are specialized in coolant, which damage our water cooling systems, like fotos show! Strange thing is, there are still some shops selling their liquid!
Ive had my Faser One UV Red (Premix) coolant in my loop for 6 months. Took it apart yesterday without any signs of gunkg in my blocks :/
I have use both, distilled in two of my rigs and F1 in other two, one of them is folding. Still can't make them gunk. I think the problem is with mixing with other coolants or additives (which I don't do) and proper loop maintenance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwQDLeCz9FI
6 month test on the EK Supreme HF..Hmmm How long has the HF been around now? Has 6 months gone by already? Just asking as I honestly do not know. Time flies when you get old you know...:yepp:
Ah okay...Oh and BTW Dazmode...Love that HF block I bought from you! Cannot be happier! :up:
You sure about this? I don't recall ever hearing of Fester until about 3 years ago and I've been water cooling since '03. The date on their site also seems to confirm the 3yr thing as well. Judging by your prior posts involving Fester, this post looks pretty much like a broken record. It also looks like your trying to do "damage control" for Fester which, in my book at least, warrants me shouting "SHILL".
How do I take apart the GTZ for cleaning. I took the 4 screws around it out and thats just for the hold down plates?? it's been on a distilled + silver coil loop for over a year and I'm about to readd it to my loop. Any advice on cleaning, or rinsing? i guess I don't need to take it apart. Looks clean inside but I'd like to rinse it. Whats the best idea and way.
thanks!
My guess is i used something similar prior to that and don't even recall. I have been watercooling for as long as you and never had an issue with any coolant until today. I'm sorry for my mistake on the dates.
I don't have anything to do with FESER nor do i want to protect them in any way but the truth is i never had any problems with them, it's weird that so many people do. Think what you will, i'll keep using FESER as it's good and it does the job well done until something else worthwhile appears and makes me change :shrug:
For what its worth, I'm in the same boat as NaMcO.
I've been using Feser One coolant for 3 years and have never had any problems with it; other than maybe the "black" not being black nor the "red" not being red. I just did an upgrade on a two year old machine running the UV green and was very impressed to see no residue in the blocks - even the Tygon tubing was still perfectly clear!
I don't know what conditions would cause the problems folks are having but until I see anything lumpy myself, I'll continue using it - for blue and green themes anyway. ;)
Oh, i is not a Shill. :)
So the 4 screws in the middle that go through the copper block are all you need to unscrew then the block comes apart. I did that but it's tight as can be.. do I just need to pull harder?
Primochill says so in the product description.
Sorry to keep this beast kicking but check out this awesome dye gone wrong mess:
Wicked eh? I suggested he come share but I guess he didn't get the link?Quote:
Here's a Swiftech GTX CPU water block that has a non-copper/soft metal in the top that has been reacting with chemicals in the fluid from mixing dyes.
The gunk:
http://imgur.com/ZFFCx.jpg
The dye alone (covering the pins) would have annoyed me without the gunk:
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With some of the gunk scratched away: north myrtle beach hotels|miami hotel
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With the gunk gone you can see how it was using the metal in the water block as some sort of catalyst eating it as it went:
http://imgur.com/xEifB.jpg
Coolant used: PrimoChill Ice Clear
Dye used: PrimoChill DyeBomb UV Blue (Approx. 1ml due to container breaking)
Re-Fresh Dye used: Feser View UV Blue (Approx. 10ml)
Wow.. Those pictures are going to make me have nightmares.....:shocked:
That is plain nasty......
However there is some good news, I just saved a bunch of cash changing my insurance to Geiko....JK...
At least the OP's nails are nice and clean......
Makes me think about the Primo Chill I have in my loop.......
Fluid XP.
The original was notorious for leaving a waxy residue everywhere.
And not its not a simple film, but a thick wax coat.
Needless to say... many many many hours in with my radiator + rubbing alcohol + rad flush was required to get rid of all that nasty stuff.
really makes me wonder is this just cause off mixing feser with other stuff if so with what did op mix it with ?.
Im running Feser one UV blue right now :eek:, Im going to disassemble both my loops soon and attempt to open my cpu-350 (last time i tried i couldn't open it)
Dam guys thats some nasty stuff, I was using the feser uv blood red for a week but didnt wanna take the chance even with PT nuke so i ended up using distilled + Utopia which is basically the same as PT nuke.. @Naekuh u got pics dude? sounds interesting :D
Any updates for the effect of Feser 1 UV dye? Because I'm going to use Feser 1 for my dual loop and don't want to see many gunks around wc parts :eek:
Get coloured tubing.
I'm fairly positive that SNiiPE didn't mix anything else in with it. He also isn't the only one having the problem so it's not an isolated incident.
You may want to reconsider using that crap too. It has some form of surfactant (such as Water Wetter), which we stopped using a long time ago as it didn't have any positive impact on the system and long term use showed a slimy buildup on components that was difficult to remove and hurt temps.
why not do distilled + a bit of propylene glycol? I have unlike metals in my loop... so without a softener, galvanic corrosion would eat through my rad, in due time.
E: actually, whatever because that's what i've been doing for years and never had problems. *shrug*
E2: it's cheap too, you can just buy the green antifreeze. that's what it basically is.
Hi!
How is it an absolute best? In temps vs distilled?
Btw, something about the stuff.
http://www.naturalnews.com/023138_pr...od_health.html
Also, mixing all the metals are fine except for AL as Polizei has mentioned.
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so getting any kind off corosion is just imposible without corosion protection like when you got copper rad some nickel + bras fittings etc.
cous i'm thinking about going demi + killcoil atm ;P
Glycol is toxic, and reduces the efficiency somewhat. It's not as much antimicrobial as silver or copper. And since it's an alcohol, it destroys acrylic and generally doesnt play well with plastics (even tubing not meant for it).
Unless you need its antifreeze properties (in which case you know what you are doing playing with a chiller) it's not a good solution for room temperature pc watercooling.
If you haven't aluminium in loop (and as you mentioned - all your components are nickel/copper/brass/stainless steel), any coolant will do, as you don't need to care about corrosion. What i can advise - distilled with something to prevent algae growth. For example - killcoil or few drops of some biocide (eg. PHN copper). Glycol sounds like some antifreeze? No need for that (see above). It will just worsen thermal transfer properties of coolant.
It's in the product description.
The "PLT" sounds like it forms some sort of layer on your parts to protect against any microbes from making a home. The thing is, we've seen in the past where things that leave "layers" tend to stay there and need extra work to get rid of them, if you don't, they'll build up and create a layer that doesn't transfer heat to well and there go your temps.
Hmm my coolant is still blue, ill see what damage (if any) has been done to my system, i know it left horrible blue marks on my table. that primochill stuff looks good
That term "layer" seems like marketing jargon referring to nothing more than a wetting agent. Best results are straight distilled, distilled with kill coil/PT Nuke and if you want color, LRT tubing.
finaly decided to ditch colored crap asswell.
i had a gunk in my ek supreme HF full nickel after 1 month or less usage.
flow dropped from 3 liter per min or even 3,1 liter per min to 2,5 2,6 liter per min sudenly.
now if pre ordered colored tubing and new reservoir while at it.
still running fine with koolance blocks
anyone expriences with thermochil ec6 clear uv coolant ?
and no i dont got uv dye's in it just the clear bottle off water so my guess i should't worry about any kind off gunk or some sort thats caused by uv dye's ?
reason i'm asking cous it say's clear uv on bottle makes me wonder does it have a uv dye in it or does it just mean its good to use with uv dye's cous i dont care about that.
wow. guys hope I don't have the same problem as you guys as I bought feaser before reading this for my 24/7 liquid cooling of my i7 950 CPU with DD-MCP water block. I will report back soon. I just hope it'll last longer than 8 months. :)
Not to resurrect an old thread, but
I just looked at my res today and notice white stringy flakes in it. I flushed the cooling system completely couple of weeks ago as I was adding evga gtx 580 hydrocopper 2 to my system. I am using fesser one clear UV coolant, been using it for over a year before. Not sure what those flakes are... As far as I know evga uses swiftech waterblock for their gtx 580s. Is there a chance of a reaction between new card and my cpu waterblock Heatkiller 3.0? Or my rads? Algae growth?
I am afraid that I would need to disassemble my new gtx 580 to clean it now, is there a way to flush it??? Should I just refill it after I flush it with same fesser one fluid?
i been running feser dye for a year with out anything clogging, maybe because i flush my system every 3 months?
If you flush every three months, you're not running the same fluid for over a year ;)
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Yeah buddy, vinegar and salt = back to new.
Guy's years ago I bought a bottle of Midnight Blue Fluid XP ULTRA. It's the kind that is concentrated and I mix it 1 part with 3-4 parts distilled. I've used it in prolly 5 different loops, and I have never once had any build-up, corrosion, color fade, or algae. Also It only very very slightly stains the tubing.
To bad you can't get the ULTRA anymore:(