Alternative to Pure Distilled Water in watercooling loop

[ButUsername1]

Is there an alternative to 100% pure distilled water as a coolant? I'm using the Blood Red EKWB Cryofuel coolant concentrate and I'm wondering what kind of water I can mix it with. The closest I can find to distilled water has about 0.2mg of sodium per 100ml of water. I wonder if that will do, or if I can use Car Battery Water as I heard that it is pure distilled water

 

[n0ns3ns3]

I'm using normal distilled water sold on gas stations and "home depot" like stores at about 1USD per gallon for over a decade.
Over the years, I mixed it with dyes, pastel or just some biocide when it was in closed case.

As a side note, red is bad. very bad. It has this nasty habit to stain the tubes and fittings and the worst part - it will reside in blocks and reduce the flow

 

[ButUsername1]

I'm using normal distilled water sold on gas stations and "home depot" like stores at about 1USD per gallon for over a decade.
Over the years, I mixed it with dyes, pastel or just some biocide when it was in closed case.

As a side note, red is bad. very bad. It has this nasty habit to stain the tubes and fittings and the worst part - it will reside in blocks and reduce the flow

I wish the stores here sold distilled water like that. But would it be okay if the distilled water isn't 100% pure mixed with the concentrate? Since the concentrate already has biocides and anti corrosive properties, would it work?

 

[faalin]

Yeah no issues with the XSPC blood red in my system. And just used a couple 1L bottles of smart water from the store, its vapor distilled.

 

[Flying Head]

Have you a pharmacy?

 

[Eximo]

Another source for decent distilled water are air conditioners or dehumidifiers. You will have to make sure the receptacle for the water is as clean as possible.

If nothing else you could just filter tap water several times using one of those drinking water filters. Not ideal, but it would be better than nothing.

That settles it, build a distillation plant and start selling distilled water!

 

[n0ns3ns3]

yes, little imperfections are fine as long as it is not drinking or tap water

 

[Paperdoc]

Distilled water is best, of course. Sources I'd try: MAYBE a supermarket - look in laundry supplies for use in steam irons - or a pharmacy.

Second choice would be DEIONIZED water. It is not as pure as distilled, but it has most of the troublesome mineral traces removed.