Distilled water is highly corrosive. Brass hose fittings with DI flow 24
X 7 will reduce those shiny brass hose barbs to a dull redish brown
color that can be crumbles between your thumb and forefinger with very
little pressure.. Even DI water was not without some problems. We used
a thousand gallons at a time for our banks of 12 KW RF generators.used
for float zone refining of silicon. If distilled water were De ionized,
it would not be corrosive.
Time to change the fittings was usually announced when a hose barb
failed and water was sprayed all over the 6 or 7 KV circuits.
Now days the polycrystaline Silicon is more pure out of the reactors
than 1 or 2 passes in the zoners. and a whole lot less expensive. When
you see the 3 or 4 main producers output is in thousands of metric tons
at a tiny fraction of the price 50 years ago. It's no wonder SS devices
are as inexpensive as they are.
73, Roger (K8RI)
On 3/5/2017 2:41 PM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
Distilled water is deionized - it is one of the ways deionized water is
produced. All else being equal, deionized water can be cheaper to produce. It
takes less energy to remove the ions from an aqueous solution than the water.
Think desalination as an example.
Al
AB2ZY
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From: Amps [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jeff AC0C
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2017 2:29 PM
To: amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] SS amps watercooling - was PowerGenius XL
I suspect the terms are being mixed up here as well. We use DI water for
cleaning in many of the processes in the semiconductor process specifically
because of it's aggressive nature - it's an excellent solvent. But the
generation of DI water is a very expensive process.
For the purposes of amp cooling, distilled water would be just fine and save
you the hassle of mineral deposit accumulation. It will have high volume
resistivity initially but as metals leach from the cooling system the VR will
drop slowly over time.
73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
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From: Jim Thomson
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2017 1:17 PM
To: amps@contesting.com
Subject: [Amps] SS amps watercooling - was PowerGenius XL
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 01:44:43 +0000
From: Bill Turner <dezrat@outlook.com>
To: Amps group <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] SS amps watercooling - was PowerGenius XL
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On Sat, 4 Mar 2017 20:26:23 -0500, Jim wrote:
## de-ionized water is a chemical process, so you end up with pure
water.....
REPLY:
De-ionized water is NOT pure, it is merely free of ionized atoms or molecules.
There may still be impurities which are not ionized such as organic molecules.
When I worked in the avionics industry, we used de-ionized water to clean
circuit boards. Distilled water was strictly forbidden due to it's corrosive
properties on the plumbing.
73, Bill W6WRT
### Ok, what do you call rain water, that falls from the sky ?
It was not boiled, but was evaporated. I should collect a sample of rain
water in a SS bowl, then pour into a plastic cap, then stuff the fluke 87
probes into it, and see what the dc resistance is. I did this with tap
water,
and also distilled water. Distilled water was WAY higher, by several
magnitudes. Interesting to note that Paul bought distilled water at
wallgreens
that had low resistance. Caused grief in his vapor cooled alpha. Sounds
to me like they were selling plane tap water....labeled as distilled.
## Folks on here have mentioned the use of distilled AND de-ionized water.
AFAIK, the 4 litre jugs of distilled water, sold at my local grocery store are
distilled only.
IE: Clean water that has been boiled, and the steam condensed back to water.
Jim VE7RF
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