Tube Lengths

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raz6000

Junior Member

Tube Lengths

Wednesday, December 7th 2005, 2:39am

Hey,

I'm new to this stuff... Can anybody see a problem with running a 2M loop between the CPU and the Pump and Rad etc?

Cheers,

Ray

edboswell

Full Member

Re: Tube Lengths

Wednesday, December 7th 2005, 11:00am

nope - to check though what pump do you have?

raz6000

Junior Member

Re: Tube Lengths

Wednesday, December 7th 2005, 11:45am

Hi,

I so far have bought a airplex evo 360. I want the system to be as quite as poss so what other bits are good e.g pump and res?

I was planning to have the PC on one side of my AV stack and the cooling box on the other so this will mean that I will have to have 2 tubes from the CPU block to the cooling tower that will hold all the watercooling gubbins... so the loop could be up 2 4M total with 2M run either way to the RAD and pump.

Does alot of tube cause issues would a bigger diameter tube help?

The PC is a media center, DVR, lighting control server! lol So it needs to be on 24/7 without keeping people awake!!

Cheers,

Ray

edboswell

Full Member

Re: Tube Lengths

Wednesday, December 7th 2005, 1:12pm

i think the aquastream 12V Pumpe Rev. 3.5 is by far enough (i think its just a modded eheim 1046). Though the other smaller pumps should be ok but i havn't tested them. I have a eheim 1048 and the loop is about 15m i thinkkk and its works fine

raz6000

Junior Member

Re: Tube Lengths

Wednesday, December 7th 2005, 1:58pm

Ok cool,

does you eheim 1048 come with the controller like the Pumpe Rev. 3.5?

Cheers,,

Ray

Mr_modnaR

Full Member

Re: Tube Lengths

Wednesday, December 7th 2005, 4:23pm

no the 1048 plugs straight into the mains. the aquastream is the only pump with a control board as it is designed to be run off 12v (ie inside your pc!).

hope this helps

raz6000

Junior Member

Re: Tube Lengths

Wednesday, December 7th 2005, 5:03pm

Ohh right,

So how do how do you lot switch the power for the pump other that pulling the mains?

I guess it wouldn't hurt to leave it running even if the machine is not on.. (Avoids girlfriends destroying the machine!)

I quite often leave my machine on standby is the CPU still running?

Thanks the answers so far!!

Ray

pharao

Moderator

Re: Tube Lengths

Wednesday, December 7th 2005, 5:14pm

I use a "Master-Slave" outlet-strip, so when I switch the PC on, the Pump (and Monitor and speakers) are turned on automatically.

Gute work-live-balance ist, wenn man von seinem Privatleben erschöpfter ist als von der Arbeit.