• 12.10.2024, 21:16
  • Register
  • Login

  • You are not logged in.

 

high flow NEXT Water Quality Rapidly Declining on New Build

Dear visitor, welcome to Aqua Computer Forum. If this is your first visit here, please read the Help. It explains how this page works. You must be registered before you can use all the page's features. Please use the registration form, to register here or read more information about the registration process. If you are already registered, please login here.

syzygy

Newbie

Posts: 2

high flow NEXT Water Quality Rapidly Declining on New Build

Monday, July 22nd 2024, 12:52am

I recently completed a new custom water cooled build and am having coolant quality issues. Here's what my loop consists of:
  • ultitube D5 150 pro with leakshield
  • high flow NEXT sensor
  • octo
  • quadro
  • DP Ultra red coolant
  • Mayhems - Premium Soft Tubing - Ultra Flex PVC - 10/16mm
  • Hardware Labs Black Ice Nemesis 360GTS radiator
  • Hardware Labs Black Ice Nemesis L-Series 420 Stealth radiator
  • Hardware Labs Black Ice Nemesis 140GTS radiator
  • EK-Quantum Momentum² ROG Maximus Z790 Hero D-RGB - Plexi
  • EK-Quantum Vector² Trio RTX 4090 D-RGB ABP Set - Nickel + Plexi
I flushed the radiators out with Mayhems Blitz part 1 radiator cleaner before installing them into the loop. They were bone dry at the time of install. Once I got the loop assembled, I ran Mayhems Blitz part 2 system cleaner through it. Part 2 calls for flushing the system three times with distilled water, waiting 60 minutes in between flushes, after running the cleaner through it. Then you check the pH balance of the loop with a provided litmus test strip, which I did, and the test showed my loop was balanced.

After I was finished flushing I added DP Ultra red coolant to it. There was a very small amount of distilled water left in the loop that I could not remove.

Upon initial fill, high flow NEXT reported the water quality as 100% and conductivity around 45 uS/cm. Over the span of a few days, the water quality began rapidly declining and the conductivity rose. The water quality reached 36% and conductivity was 79 uS/cm before I decided to drain and refill with fresh coolant. I figured there must have been some residual cleaning agent in the loop or something. After the new coolant was added, high flow NEXT reported initial water quality as being 95% and conductivity as 52.2 uS/cm. In less than 24 hours, the water quality is now 61.78% and conductivity is 67.2 uS/cm and continues to decline.

I'm using aquasuite version x.79 on Windows 11 and the firmware on all the aqua devices is up-to-date.

Any idea why this might be happening?

DumpTronald

Newbie

Posts: 2

Sunday, August 4th 2024, 3:15am

Try using just distilled water and maybe a clear coolant.

Go back to basics .
Over the years I've seen this whole coolant chemistry idea becoming over complicated,

I've been running EK clear in my system for two years and only now does it look like it needs cleaning. No of sign of corrosion. Never tested pH or conductivity.

Before that I ran distilled water and silver springs
in the reservoir for three years , but that was two long .
That said it sounds like you have two different metals in the system and galvanic leeching into the coolant .
Maybe one of the fittings has a scratch in it coating ? .

syzygy

Newbie

Posts: 2

Friday, August 16th 2024, 10:50pm

It's been a few weeks and my water quality is slowing improving. It's now ~69%

Similar threads