dehumidifier water?

[Gulp35]

I am just about to hook up my watercooling loop but I need distilled water. My dad recommended that I use water from our dehumidifier as it is nearly the same process as distillation. I thought that the dehum. water would be more funky than some distilled from the store but I would be putting in some anti-freeze ( i've been hearing 15-20 percent is good). what would you do?

also how would i go about filtering said water.

my rig....
Cascade
'75 Ford F-150 heatercore
danner mag3 pump
1/2" tubing throughout

[nikhsub1]

Umm, Id go and buy a gallon of distilled... who knows what is in the pan from the dehumidifier. No need to filter it then, and the dehum water won't be clean.

[Mars]

Geez, distilled water is only .99 cents. Go the extra step. Who knows what kind of shit is in the dehum water. Go with what you know. I think 15% anti-freeze maximum for a water cooled system.

[greenman100]

Originally Posted by Gulp35

I am just about to hook up my watercooling loop but I need distilled water. My dad recommended that I use water from our dehumidifier as it is nearly the same process as distillation. I thought that the dehum. water would be more funky than some distilled from the store but I would be putting in some anti-freeze ( i've been hearing 15-20 percent is good). what would you do?

also how would i go about filtering said water.

my rig....
Cascade
'75 Ford F-150 heatercore
danner mag3 pump
1/2" tubing throughout

it ain't the same if there's mold growing inside, which there probably is

[cougem]

Hmm, I wouldn't really, distilled is cheap.

And if you do, make sure you don't get Legionnaire's.

[Gulp35]

Thanks for the info, It is a newer dehum. but as I said , it smells funky (but not as bad as our last one) I guess I will pick up some distilled after school, Have any favorite additive cocktails?

[Kobuchi]

I was about to say "why not just boil the water" but then realised you'd have to wait hours for it to cool to ambient.

[MadHacker]

Originally Posted by Kobuchi

I was about to say "why not just boil the water" but then realised you'd have to wait hours for it to cool to ambient.

that is just boiled water.. all the minerals are still in the water...
now the water that evaperates and condenses on the lid of the pan..
if you could collect only that part...
that would be distilled water...

[Kobuchi]

I meant pouring the dehumidifier water into a pot, boiling it, and leaving covered until cool. This demands patience and is suggestive of cooking, so I won't push it.

[mastermind2004]

Boiling it does nothing to remove the additives. It merely kills the biological agents. If you were to capture the steam, then recondense that, it would then be distilled water. Boiling is not distillation.

[slavik]

you can set up a system of a jar in a jar and catch the water vapour

my grandmother worked in a russian factory, she knows this stuff (when I told her about bong cooling, as soon as I started about the tube, she explained everything else :P)

I can make a diagram of what it would look like if you want ... if you had access to a college level chem lab, you could def do it (and in home if u can get the stuff)

also, my chemistry lab professor says that deionised water is actually a little bit better than steam distilled (no ions which actually cause corrosion)

[Kobuchi]

Originally Posted by mastermind2004

Boiling it does nothing to remove the additives. It merely kills the biological agents. If you were to capture the steam, then recondense that, it would then be distilled water. Boiling is not distillation.

Repeat: I meant pouring the dehumidifier water into a pot, boiling it. That addresses concerns about bugs from the coils later blooming in a watercooling loop.