I have a hydor L30 in my water cooling setup but it seems to be running very hot and if i leave it on it heats my block and rad up !! has any1 got this problem or heard of it because i am wondering weather or not to buy and eheim to replace it. i have a friend with the same setup but he has a eheim 1250 and it runns alot cooler the only difference is that he has a maze three instead of my maze 4 his runns about 33c idle but mine runs upto to 40c idle !! I have got all the air out and the block correctly setup plz can sum1 help me cos i am seriously considering about selling the setup !!
They do run hot thats why i got a eheim 1250 instead of the hydor,been reading on a few forums about the heat problem.
they definately run warm... to aid with cooling the pump down i positioned it just behind my rad fans so the air flows directly over the back of it (where most of the heat is)
well i think it has now died cos i went back to bleeding it and it has not tured back on and it feels extremely hot !!!
If its not turning on you got a jamed impeller. Take the pump apart and repack it. Hapened to me, all in all my hydor l30 is not a bad pump (has been runing non stop for 6months now) it does run hot but im a silence type of person so I put it under 3layes of insulation. Yes my pump gets hot but I dont care. My old temps with a 20-25c room temp are 25-28c idle and 35-38c load with my northwood p4 3.0c@ 3.6 Now with my prescot 530j @ 3.95ghz I idle around 38-40 and load a bit over 50c. Now mind you that I run a swiftech mcw5002 moded to lga and a danger den maze 4 gpu block along with a mid size hetercore and ofcourse the hydor and the last fiew days have been scorching hot (just in time to screw my prescott overcklocking up). I would look into the new 12v swiftech pumps if I were changing setups. The new gen swiftech pumps have lots of pressure and are ajustable and performance and temp is top notch and noise aint too bad either.
had a relative discussion about this with some gurus about watercooling from another forum and we came down to the conclusion that a ~25watt pump will add into the loop about 0.2oC more on the water (if i recall correctly..., it might be 0.6oC). So, if your liquid is getting warm then it is mostly your radiators that need more fans or bigger ones Don't forget that water is passing with a certain speed through the pump so it doesn't pick up much heat from the pump internals.
that pumps looks so damn sweet once painted silver! also guys, have a look for the latest Hydor babies L35/45... ceramic shaft and 1700lt/h / 2800lt/h respectively
