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Originally Posted by AngryAlpaca
How do you plan to electrically isolate the radiator (we're talking reservoirs, by the way) from the water block? Not have water flowing through them? That won't work very well.
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The four parts of the corrosion cell are the Anode, Cathode, Electrolyte, and a Metallic path. By eliminating one you blow the circuit. In this case the water is the electrolyte. So yes, it isn't very effective to take this out of the loop. By isolating the reservoir from the waterblock you eliminate the potential for
dissimilar metal corrosion between the reservoir and the block. They may as well be on two different sides of the ocean.
I'm not saying that he should isolate it, but if he wanted to he would simply need to install it with dielectric fittings, some rubber or something of that sort. Like I said it may not be possible depending on his installation method. If it is something that would be easy to do, then what the hell go for it.
