Can you add food coloring to a watercooling system?

Albedo · 01-March-05, 01:00 PM

Dumbarse question... can you add food coloring to a water cooling system? I'm too cheap to buy dye.

Enko · 01-March-05, 01:02 PM

dye is pretty much food coloring . ..

Cyno01 · 01-March-05, 01:31 PM

Should be no problem, if you want it UV reactive you could always try emptying out a highlighter into the water instead. Works for most colors, but not usually blue... We do this with cool liquor bottles, fill em with water, squeeze out a highlighter ink tampon thingy, or pour it out (if its a liquid) into the water and put em in front of a blacklight. Im suprised this has never come up, is there some reason i dont know that no ones ever used highlighter ink as a cheap UV dye for watercooling?

elitelilnoyd · 01-March-05, 01:35 PM

I would not recommend it. I did a search of the forums and this question has came up multiple times. It looks like the it can have bad results, such as pump damage.

EDIT: My recommendation would be get a bag of this, its 4.99 and its a total premixed uv fluid. That means no need for distilled water or any other additives.

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01-March-05, 01:02 PM		#2 (permalink)
Enko Apex Tech God	dye is pretty much food coloring . ..

01-March-05, 01:31 PM		#3 (permalink)
Cyno01 Apex Tech God	Should be no problem, if you want it UV reactive you could always try emptying out a highlighter into the water instead. Works for most colors, but not usually blue... We do this with cool liquor bottles, fill em with water, squeeze out a highlighter ink tampon thingy, or pour it out (if its a liquid) into the water and put em in front of a blacklight. Im suprised this has never come up, is there some reason i dont know that no ones ever used highlighter ink as a cheap UV dye for watercooling?

01-March-05, 01:35 PM		#4 (permalink)
elitelilnoyd N-Hoe-yd	I would not recommend it. I did a search of the forums and this question has came up multiple times. It looks like the it can have bad results, such as pump damage. EDIT: My recommendation would be get a bag of this, its 4.99 and its a total premixed uv fluid. That means no need for distilled water or any other additives.