Quoted from "drmaniac"

Also ich hab eh vor mir ein Aquatube incl 5.25" Halterung (Einbaurahmen) zu kaufen und ebenso das Aquabay cf Display, das bedeutet, jedes davon kann dahinter eine Pumpe aufnehmen? Muss ich irgendwelche Schrauben oder Winkel oder Halterungen dazukaufen ?

Quoted from "drmaniac"

diese hier? http://www.aqua-computer-systeme.de/shop…6e3d08607fdd2ee

Quoted from "drmaniac"

Ähm. Aquatube ist doch der AB? Davon wollte ich nur einen installieren

Quoted from "Top_Nurse"

If you go back a while into this project you will see that my Aquatube is mounted into the Aquabay in a pretty much normal manner as seen below.





Well now that is all going to change.  J-Pepper sugegsted that I flip the Aquabay upside down, but at first look I didn't think it was going to work well due to some asthetic and mechanical issues.  However, after giving it a lot of thought I decided there was a way to make this all happen and get some advantages out of the deal.  So here is what the front of my Aquabay/Aquatube looks like now.  As you can see the ports are now all vertical instead of sitting at a lopside angle.  This does two things.  The first is that now it is possible to have the intake of the pump at a much lower part of the Aquatube.  Second of all the return line gets to go in a different spot.  Guess where it will be?





This pic shows a little more detail of the front.  No more Aqua Computer name and everything is nice and black.  The only downside here is that the notch on the Aquatube no longer matches up with the notch in the Aquabay front plate.  Normally this might prove to be a problem if you need to get into the plexi plate cover a lot.  Fortunately in my case I am using a DD Fillport to fill and bleed the Aquatube. The plexi will probably never be taken off.

This is looking at the completed assembly from the bottom up (or the top if it were assembled in a conventional manner).  You can just see the in-line temp probe coming down through the Aquabay right near the bottom of the Aquatube.  One of the other asthetics was that I got to be able to put the silver/grey pump cover back on.





And of course the reason for doing this in the first place is that now the AquaStream pump has the name right side up.  ;D





As I said before my return line is in a different place now.  In this configuration the water will be coming in from the top of the Aquatube.  I expect to get some decent action from having the water streaming in vertically right in front of the plexi.  Here you can see what this will look like.  Now in many cases this would not be possible to do, but the V2000 case has about 1.5 inches from the top of the top 5 1/4" bay to the top of the case.  So in this instance everything is copasetic.  The T fitting holds the Aquaero temp sensor and the two top LED mounts will be for the Aquaero dual LED setup.






Here is another pic of what you would see if you were looking in from the middle of the case.  Once I get it mounted in the case I will shoot some more pics so you can see some of the other advantaghes of doing it this way.





And finally here is a pic of the way it will sit in the case from the top view.





There is one slight problem with this setup.  When you flip the Aquabay the nuts pressed in the Aquabay don't line up anymore with the case slots.  So tomorrow I will be drilling some holes and tapping them.