DryLink UQD & UQDB quick disconnects · rack manifolds
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PG25 loops · spares

Parts that survive the wrench

Service teams live on chemistry and spares.

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Loop fluid · industry-published benchmark 75 / 25 water / propylene glycol
Worst outage > $100k · industry-published benchmark 54% of respondents, 2024
Transport & storage · per the OCP UQD specification −40…+75 °C window

Start with the fluid, not the fitting

Chemistry first · compatibility per compound

PG25 · 75 / 25

The mainstream coolant on these loops: 75% water, 25% propylene glycol, with an inhibitor package that varies by supplier. industry-published benchmark

Compound level

Seals (EPDM class) and plastics (PPSU class) are verified compound by compound against inhibited glycol, not declared by material family, because a family name does not survive a glycol loop on its own.

Per fluid lot

The compatibility sheet is revised with the fluid lot, so a change of coolant supply is a documented change rather than an untested one. The long form of this is the PG25 compatibility note.

Rendering: a coolant drum tap with a sampling probe and a length of clear tubing beside it

A compatibility question starts at the drum: which fluid, which lot, which inhibitor package, and then which seal and which plastic in the parts that touch it.

A stock-out turns an outage into a long one

Outage cost · MTTR lever · site tier

Outage cost 54% worst outage > $100k

Share of respondents whose most recent significant outage passed six figures. industry-published benchmark

The lever MTTR time to repair

On-site spares are the one lever on mean time to repair that does not wait for a delivery.

Site tier Tiered by site class

The critical-spares list is tiered by site class and by the maintenance route, not by catalogue volume.

The gaps, and the half that ships with the parts

Named gaps · published retrofit review · industry-published benchmark

Gap · standards Teams are handed parts without a shared acceptance vocabulary, so a replacement is judged on whether it fits.
Support · data sheets Compatibility, cycle life and storage conditions ship with the parts, so the replacement is judged against the same numbers the original was.
Gap · skills The crews who can commission a loop are the crews already booked; familiarity is the binding constraint.
Support · training Training material is delivered with the parts, and refresher content is available on request, for the crew that inherits the loop and not only the crew that installed it.

Neither gap is closed by a catalogue. One is closed by documentation, the other by the people who read it, which is why both are listed here as deliverables rather than as marketing lines.

Isolate, swap, verify

Isolate · swap · verify

Step 1 · Isolate

Dry break

Cabinet or row isolation. A dry-break coupling comes apart without spraying, which is what makes the work possible on a live row.

Step 2 · Swap

One cycle

Every service action is one pressurised connect/disconnect cycle, so a spare is selected on cycle life rather than on appearance. industry-published benchmark

Step 3 · Verify

Re-pressure

Re-pressure and leak-check before the loop goes back into service, and before the next cabinet is touched.

Cycle-rated spares for hot-swap routes: chosen on cycle life, not on looks.

Storage is part of the specification

Window · rotation · audit

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−40 °C … +75 °C

The transport and storage window the specification sets for these couplings: the number a van, a container or an unheated store has to stay inside. per the OCP UQD specification

FIFO

Rotate stock first-in first-out: a seal that has been sitting at the back of the shelf is the one to inspect before it is fitted.

Yearly audit

Storage conditions audited once a year, so the shelf becomes a documented condition rather than an assumption.

What a spares kit holds

Selected against the loop, not against a catalogue

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In the kitspares · plugs · seals · two tools
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Kit familyblind-mate pairs, ascending

Replacement parts for retrofit work are on the colocation page; the couplings themselves are on the UQD page. If the question is interface compatibility rather than fluid chemistry, the CDU and OEM page and the FAQ both cover it.

Spares kit

What fluid is in your loop?

Send the fluid and the site tier. The reply is a spares kit selected against a PG25 75 / 25 baseline (industry-published benchmark), with the seal compatibility sheet and the storage guidance for it.

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Ships with spares kit
Documents seal compatibility sheet
On the shelf storage guidance

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