Home made UV dyes

[mlwood37]

Hmm this is the biggist head ace getting a decend biocide made. This is realy good stuff but if it does that to the green its going to cuase to many problems. Ill Ive just been chatting to the chemist and hes said dilute it and see how it goes. So ill have a play .. gonna try a 50/50 redction.

[Elpy]

Why not just use a killcoil? . Havent received the dyes yet but most likely wont be using the biocide because I like silver coils . Or well I'll probably test it with the blue, just to check if there will be any... funny stuff . Most likely will receive them tomorrow so will post pics then.

[Alien Grey]

Hmm this is the biggist head ace getting a decend biocide made. This is realy good stuff but if it does that to the green its going to cuase to many problems. Ill Ive just been chatting to the chemist and hes said dilute it and see how it goes. So ill have a play .. gonna try a 50/50 redction.

As I added more water the Green colour came back.

The easiest way to find out is to add 1 drop to 500ml water + UV Yellow/Green-Green dye. Than add more water till the green colour comes back.

[Alien Grey]

The Yellow/Green-Green dye is very good. You don't need much dye to have it to look like green with UV light.


I added 20 drops UV Yellow/Green-Green and 10 drops UV Green to +/- 500ml DEMI water. You can do with less dye but I wanted it to show green also with daylight.

Now it's a nice green with a lot better glow with my 2 UV Cold Cathode lights.


I'm going to ask someone I know to take some pictures because my camera isn't good enough.

[mlwood37]

wow thats alot of dye. I think my idear of nice colour is a little diffrent to every one else. hehe. 20 drops is a lot. Please keep an eye on you system.

Any way ive been playing again lol ive reduce the biocide to 50% strengh and its not effecting the green how ever i need to run this over at least 3 months to see if it still degrades the dyes.As for now the biosides been pulled becuase it way to strong for normal users untill i can get a defeante answer. No one seems to read warnings lol so i need to comepnesate this...

[Alien Grey]

wow thats alot of dye. I think my idear of nice colour is a little diffrent to every one else. hehe. 20 drops is a lot. Please keep an eye on you system.

Any way ive been playing again lol ive reduce the biocide to 50% strengh and its not effecting the green how ever i need to run this over at least 3 months to see if it still degrades the dyes.As for now the biosides been pulled becuase it way to strong for normal users untill i can get a defeante answer. No one seems to read warnings lol so i need to comepnesate this...

I used a little more than 1ml for 520ml DEMI Water. I don't worry about staining or anything else. If I do run in to trouble I know it's because I used to much but I don't think I will because... well you know what I'm using in my loop to try to keep it clean.


As for your Biocide. I should have used 1 drop for 1 liter. There's only 520ml in my loop so I should have used 1/2 drop.

[mlwood37]

Yeh its 1 drop per 1 ltr dut im wokring on chainging that to 2 drop to 1/2 ltr with the new mix ive just orderd. lol

[Alien Grey]

Yeh its 1 drop per 1 ltr dut im wokring on chainging that to 2 drop to 1/2 ltr with the new mix ive just orderd. lol

That's good. If you only use a watercooling to cool the CPU and you don't have a big reservoir you probably need less than 500ml in your loop so 1 drop could be still to much.

That's why I tried with 2 drops to see how strong it is and it's extremely strong.


I don't know if you're going to change something in the Biocide but if you don't change anything I could try with adding 40ml DEMI water to the 10ml Biocide and make 250ml coolant with the dye and 1 drop of the Biocide to see if it's better and keep that in a bottle for some time to see if it stays good.