Lumos Maintenance (Liquid Cooling/Dust)

First, don’t worry...changes in your coolant clarity and or cpu temps will tell you when coolant might need changing in a year (or three) down the road.    When coolant starts looking a bit dirty from normal corrosion or impurities, then you change it out.    Generally for a very long time ahead, you will only need to top off your coolant reservoir every 6 months to one year or so whenever normal evaporation over time lowers the reservoir level a bit.    A plastic squeeze bottle coolant fill kit will do that job nicely...   

Second...you would not use water in the coolant system.    Ask DS what specific brand/model coolant they are using in your system, or order a few extra liter sized bottles of that coolant from DS.    Coolants for pc systems are non-conductive non-potable premixed liquids formulated for max thermal performance in reservoirs and radiators.    You only use one brand/model coolant in your reservoir/radiator system at a time, as the formulations cannot be mixed with other brands coolants these days.    EKWB, Koolance, XSPC , Alphacool are a few of the companies making pc coolants that you can find on amazon, Newegg, frozencpu...etc.    Most of these companies have fairly recently reformulated these products to comply with govt regulation of the industry and to comply with hazmat regulations and product labeling rules.. ( I use XSPC EC6 clear coolant.)

The only time distilled water is used these days is to flush out a drained coolant system until it is clean enough to refill with coolant, or when facilitating a change of coolant brand/model to something different.   

You will have to ask DS how much coolant is required to fill your particular combination of reservoir/radiator/tubing used.    DS has several different manufacturers they may utilize for assembling HydroLux components. Generally premixed coolants will be sold in 1 liter bottles.

Hope all that info helps you. Lol... My own DS HydroLux System with 360mm rad has not yet required anything but normal coolant top offs...haven’t needed a coolant change in 8 yrs. of 24/7 operation.


Edited by HockeyBuck - 28 Jan 2020 at 12:27am