Blood Red
As with all the ECX colors, Blood Red is packaged in a 110ml capacity plastic bottle that is filled with 100ml of the Ultra Concentrate Coolant. The key points on the label we addressed on the Introduction and Information page, so no need to go over it again here.
The MSDS advised that ECX Concentrate has a pH level between 7.5 – 9.5.
Using a Bluelab pH pen, the reading we got for the Blood Red ECX Concentrate was 8.3.
The 100ml provided is enough to make up 1 liter of solution when mixed 1:9 as instructed on the labeling. For the review we made a small batch using 20ml of ECX Concentrate mixed into 180ml of distilled water.
When mixed Blood Red is a very deep shade of red and with a black background it is hard to distinguish from the background.
With a white background we get an idea of the deepness of the red color, and in matching it to an X11 color it is closest to Dark Red or Maroon when in a reservoir BUT Red as seen in tubing.
The darker shade becomes more obvious when put side by side with another brand of PC coolant:
In the bottles above, the color is similar to how it will look in a tube reservoir, but will appear a significantly lighter shade of red in any sort of thin tube – as seen below. We like the darker red which results in a great looking vibrant red fluid in the tubes.
Left to right the following tubes are set up to help show color and clarity for of the Blood Red sample:
- Acrylic Res Tube
- 14mm OD Clear PETG tubing
- 14mm OD Clear Acrylic tube
- 3/8 x 5/8 Ultra-Clear soft tube
- 1/2″ x 3/4″ Adv. LRT soft tube.
First up is Overhead lighting with LEDs at the rear:
The next photo is similar, but it has an additional LED bar angled up so we can see how the fluid color changes with lighting directly behind it:
No photos were taken of the Blood Red in tubes with a black background because the color is not distinguishable as seen in the sample mix bottle above. No photos with UV lighting were taken because it is not a UV reactive fluid.
Next up is Blue UV.
Outstanding! I checked this out to see how the XSPC coolant looked and see what you folks thought about it in general. As always, ER delivered an article with amazing detail covering things I didn’t think about!
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