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Best practices for a maintenance-free loop?

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Reading this thread:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1038255236#post1038255236

got me to wondering.

  • What are the "best practices" for building (and maintaining) your loop?
  • And, why do a cleanout every year? That seems like a lot of work.
  • Are there any ways that would allow you to do this work every 2 years? More?
  • Are there any ways to "monitor" the performance of your loop, so you don't wait too long for this maintenance?
 
do the clean out to get rid of any growth that may occur

building - make shortest tube runs, easy to setup, easy to fill/drain

you can go 2 years i guess if you don't have algae growth

there are flow meters that will let you check the flow rate of the loop i believe


*note* i'm still new, not sure if these are 100% right.
 
After some research, I'm came to the conclusion that is better to avoid using water dyes, and only use distilled water.
Put a silver coil in the loop, like Kill Coil, and fuggedaboutit :p

And buy good quality tubing
 
How hard is it to drain your loop and refill it with water? Takes me half an hour at best. Half an hour once or twice a year just to make sure there is nothing accumulating.

It's not like you're taking every component out and flushing it. You're just taking most of the old water out, and refilling it with fresh water.
 
Once a year too often to clean? Are you a person that lets a carpet of dust build in your computer and wonder why it stops working? Cleaning is part of having a high performance rig, if its too much work for you, pay someone else to do it, I would be glad to do it for $50 :)
 
Go with a low toxic antifreeze, or antifreeze with embitterment mixed in, mixed into the distilled water. The antifreeze will stop corrosion and alge growth. I will not tell you not to use pure silver strips, that is your choice, but here is a good read about galvanic corrosion and the different levels.

http://martinsliquidlab.org/2012/01/24/corrosion-explored/
 
I am running just the distilled water in mine with no problems. Although, I am looking for a killcoil to stick in the res I am wondering where I can pick one up here in Indy, any idea's anyone?
 
Not sure about picking up one locally, and you want to make sure it's pure 99.999% silver. The last two nines make a difference. Check performance-pcs, frozen-cpu or sidewindercomputers.com though; it's fairly cheap.
 
Yea, i've seen them around and they are cheap but they screw ya on the shipping, lol.
 
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