Whole Room Water Cooling Part 6 - The Road to Stability
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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2,297 words · ~11 min read
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rolling are you i can't see the light
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all right well it's a beautiful day so we're gonna
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go inside and work on whole room water cooling but first
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it's time for a haul video yeah baby
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hall time
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so here it is so much fun stuff
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this is from my trip to home depot actually the vast majority of this stuff
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has nothing to do with whole room water cooling
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some of it is for the hard pipe hard pipe build that's upcoming some of
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it is just general supplies in fact the only thing for whole room is actually
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this uh abs cement so we need that
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and yeah the rest of that can go aside for
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now then oh this is our new lab by the way i actually complained about our lab
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breaking on a previous uh previous whole room water cooling so road watched that
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and they're like hey we have a new lab coming you should try it so it's modular
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so you can actually take apart all the pieces if it breaks which is kind of cool
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all right what else we got here all right these are some pleats pleats only these
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are for the mechanical filter these
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are some uv sterilizer tubes
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a pleat is um
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think that's a bleep you know what's a bleep
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okay
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uh then we've got our lifeguard mechanical filter so this is from
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lifeguard aquatics it's for ponds but i talked to them about it and they
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basically asked me what's your flow rate what's your overall volume of water etc
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etc etc and we agreed that the best way
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to keep junk out of the system and remove the junk that's in there is one
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of these bad boys and the best way to keep anything from growing in the future
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is one of these bad boys so i'm gonna be putting these two
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uh the sterilizer and the filter in
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series in our loop then
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i apparently didn't learn my lesson the first time also i couldn't really find a
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particularly better option
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is that a new reservoir it is exactly the same reservoir that we
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bought last time again but this time it was on sale
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maybe for a reason unboxing skills are rusty just like our
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last reservoir
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all right let's open this bad boy up
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the first step is to put these guys together
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excuse me we're all about the maturity here
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really it doesn't it doesn't look that big on here well i guess the size of the
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box would have been an indicator oh look it's an open-ended glass tube i know
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what these are for small mammals right
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that okay well i don't think i was supposed to take this off yet oh we're ruining it
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already there's an o-ring i don't know where it goes
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i got this
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oh
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oh maybe it goes here
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no oh it's a compression fitting so i
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should probably
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use it as one wait what
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i think this is supposed to go through here
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no i don't think so though
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over open end of quartz sleeve
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until entire gasket is about one quarter inch of your seal oh i see coupling onto
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cap
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lightsaber is looking at me carefully insert quartz sleeve into
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bottom receptacles inside the center housing grow up ed
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all right hey this is go oh crap
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sorry i didn't have a position just right there
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carefully match pins
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of this to this match in what way
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oh god oh no it's okay i can't even oh there it is
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well that was easy i just pushed harder i think the cord goes in
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there oh oh i see why they want me to use lube
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okay so that's a pleat you know the number of
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people who offered me soldering lessons after my last video you know what the
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funny thing about that is is most people were telling me to do it the
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way that i normally do it but i specifically looked up a video on the
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internet for how to solder to make sure that i like kind of did it the way that
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you're supposed to so that i wouldn't get a bunch of people giving me soldering lessons all right
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i am feeling good about having filters and
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live things killers on my system here so
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the mechanical filter is first which means this
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goes into so the out goes into the in
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with this glue i bought it's just if this one gives me a
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refreshing spritz off at the end it's gonna be probably like super poisonous
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browsers
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how am i gonna get this open
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holy crap
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i think you've glued the cap on this is not a prank
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yeah we legitimately need it open
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i feel way less bad about not being able to do this now
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so brains versus brawn here
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maybe if we actually use a tool open
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well so much for that yeah
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so after all that taryn opened it that's right tearing the weakling
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wait but whose idea was that i was actually no
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i was gonna do it i couldn't find them
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but i was gonna do it it's actually your eyes
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i did fetch them thank you okay i'm sure that no matter how i apply
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this uh the internet will find me to be wrong and stupid so i'm just gonna wing
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it okay so we'll do some
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i here i've been outed as not a handyman i know
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the shame oh it was a shame thought of changing my
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name what's in a name
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and i got downhearted
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every time that i but not in front of the kids you can
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probably pull a fart sound effect from one of the other
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ones from today that's what taren wanted to use to open
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the clue did he really yeah oh my god
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yeah brains over brawn my ass my friends you will actually know less about water
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cooling an entire room simply by watching this video than you did before you
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started it could be that you have so much knowledge in this
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one video that it's just pushing out all the old information
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out of their heads that was what i meant
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uh we're not sure yet we're just sniffing blue right now yeah we're high
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on fumes our filter assembly is complete so i
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never actually gave an explanation of what all of this is supposed to do so
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this right here is going to filter all of the physical debris so any of the the
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dead bodies of the junk that we have growing in there now or or did because i
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gave the entire loop a blast of iodine concentrated iodine liquid a little
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while ago that should have pretty much nuked whatever's in there so this is
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going to as all that stuff gradually makes its way out of the blocks and
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everywhere else that it's stuck this is going to filter that crap out then we
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have replacement pleats for when this inevitably gets gummed up and i need to
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put new ones in there once it's running and everything's clear i
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should rarely if ever have to replace these pleats
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this guy right here is going to keep anything else from ever growing again so
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as the liquid comes through the system this has a uv lamp inside that is going
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to sterilize all the water that passes through it so this
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is my one-two punch that is going to keep the loop clear now that or well
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once it is clear again well we'll clean it and then clear it keep it clear one
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two punch doesn't seem like the pleat would do
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everything though all right so i'm back
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um 20 bucks later i have activated filter
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carbon which i don't know there were like a bazillion different kinds of
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carbon and carbon mixtures and find out what's up with this whoa okay it came
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out real fast so that's carbon
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minus media group they don't know what funnels are you know what let's get everyone
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disconnected from the whole room loop and then we'll get in there
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yeah and turn this off
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uh which off the computer uh oh [ __ ] i'm leaking
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okay good just like that can you move and i'll do it
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sorry i had to film oh what's going on hold on
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okay uh okay i need the bucket in the bathroom
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are you holding it yep oh no karen can
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you get like paper towels or something no idea
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okay okay all right
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oh it's an o-ring so i was trying to take off the quick release ah it's got
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me in the eye iodine is good for your eyes
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everywhere it's actually quite horrible
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probably okay
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um okay we need to get all the other systems off the whole room loop oh
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because it's gonna be great because it's gonna be draining
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so it's just mine and brandon's and taran's left which is more than half of
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them
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i'll just hold this
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yeah i'm going to need more paper towels i have this whole thing a paper towel oh
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god 30 hits and the ship hits the fan
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i don't why isn't this uh sealed
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o-ring failed
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uh yeah we'll have to replace the fluid well i don't know if you should save
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this one okay mine's all ready and i filmed it
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that's okay guys we got this i'm terrified of oh it's
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what it stopped it stopped yeah doesn't make any sense well i'm sorry but it did
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i'm just reporting what's happening it's no longer leaking it was leaking uh
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problem solved pretty good there well what do you think happened
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because the o-ring popped out here
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i didn't do anything i just held it oh
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whoever assembled these fittings
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compressed the o-ring it's a miracle this didn't leak before
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so who assembled it who do we not just me other people as well no i
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think you did all of the actual no because it's not here
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it's here i also got david to help all right
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i'm sure blame the guy isn't here yes
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and can't defend himself
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okay it could be either of us
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i mean technically speaking neither of us have
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ever had any experience i thought we were done with this whole project
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you guys are still fiddling with it it's because it's not done yet
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yeah i got that your system can turn
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back on now okay well i turned it off the power
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supply because that's all i could do
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well it was important for me to film what was happening
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all right so the carpet's wet and sockets wet as well
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wet socks are the worst Corsair h80i gt and h100i gtx all-in-one
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liquid coolers make your CPU run cooler and they make your computer look better
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too and you don't have to deal with all of
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this so for the last month or so we've been
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flushing the system uh periodically putting fresh well with the shower head
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on putting fresh water into it um what
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i've observed since then is that while before
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with our reservoir in our tubing ended up looking like this in the last four
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weeks and this happened quite quickly in the last four weeks the new tubing we've
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added has stayed completely clear which means it looks like whatever was living
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in our system is no longer being dispersed throughout it so that's a
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really good sign so what we're going to do then is we're going to power down the
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whole thing drain the whole thing because we've got all of the systems
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running independently now then what we're going to do is we are
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going to put our inline filter in we are going to
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give it another blast of iodine
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and we're going to put our reservoir back
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and then i think we're good to go i think that's it we're actually done
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unless something else unless something else breaks thank you all the systems
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are good everything is going
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now is the time to introduce our sterilizer
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so i'm going to go ahead and plug this bad boy in
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uv sterilizer so you can see the light is on
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which is probably good
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to take care of all the microbes that i was not aware
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of before that apparently
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live in ethylene glycol so this
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is just our corrosion inhibitor this time around this time i don't think that
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it's a biocide because it's not
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apparently i'm an idiot
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thanks taran helpful let's uh let's
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finish topping her up now that it's blend yep okay i'm coming back up
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wait wait we need two more seconds of water
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oh god i hooked it up in reverse again this is cold
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and this goes through the top which is right okay