AC Fluid

Top_Nurse

Senior Member

Sunday, June 26th 2005, 11:23pm

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Does anyone know if there is anything in AC Fluid that will deter algae growth?

edboswell

Full Member

Re: AC Fluid

Monday, June 27th 2005, 2:31am

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no i don't know but when my system was off for a while - a month, i have seen algae growing inside the cpu block... (and it had ac fluid in).... though maybe i didn't put enough in.... :-/

pharao

Moderator

Re: AC Fluid

Monday, June 27th 2005, 2:39am

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there are no algae in a closed circut.
1. what on earth should they feed from? every life form needs sth to eat.
2. algae would require light.

@boswell: shure it was algae and not copper corrosion? that would be green, too.

Gute work-live-balance ist, wenn man von seinem Privatleben erschöpfter ist als von der Arbeit.

Top_Nurse

Senior Member

Re: AC Fluid

Monday, June 27th 2005, 9:58am

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Quoted from "Hobbes"

there are no algae in a closed circut.
1. what on earth should they feed from? every life form needs sth to eat.
2. algae would require light.

Are you just pullin my leg?

Algae is a very common problem here in the states. It gets light from the room lighting, LED's, and flourescent lights everybody seems to put in them these days. If I don't add an algacide to my Koolance Exos every few months I get brown stuff growing in the tubes. I start out with distilled H20 and add some stuff like anti-freeze, but the stuff still grows unless I add an aquarium algacide. :'(

pharao

Moderator

Re: AC Fluid

Monday, June 27th 2005, 10:18am

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do you have an open circuit?
I've been watercooling for three years now and never had that kind of Problem.

Gute work-live-balance ist, wenn man von seinem Privatleben erschöpfter ist als von der Arbeit.

Top_Nurse

Senior Member

Re: AC Fluid

Monday, June 27th 2005, 10:39am

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Quoted from "Hobbes"

do you have an open circuit?
I've been watercooling for three years now and never had that kind of Problem.

How do you define an open circuit?

pharao

Moderator

Re: AC Fluid

Monday, June 27th 2005, 11:31am

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the water in your circuit being exposed to freah air (not in an Aquatube, but when using a vaporizer, bong or sth similar)

Gute work-live-balance ist, wenn man von seinem Privatleben erschöpfter ist als von der Arbeit.

Top_Nurse

Senior Member

Re: AC Fluid

Tuesday, June 28th 2005, 10:22am

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These are then definitely closed circuits

CyberXY

God

Re: AC Fluid

Saturday, July 2nd 2005, 1:02am

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then it is completely impossibile

-what should the algae eat?
-where should the CO2 come from
-where should the algae come from? do you have fish in your AT? ;D

there are many other reasons why it is impossibile but my english is too bad :-[

Nexxo

Junior Member

Re: AC Fluid

Wednesday, July 13th 2005, 10:28pm

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Actually tap water carries a lot of organisms; even de-ionised water is not entirely clean because it can always get contaminated along the way.

Some organisms are perfectly happy living in low CO2 environments and will settle for warmth when light is not available. Algae can thrive on non-organic matter such as minerals etc. So it is possible in theory at least.