I've got a problem with excessive amounts of bubbles in my watercooling loop. I've got an Eheim 1250 pump, DD Maze 4 block, Thermochill 120.1 rad and a Tank-o-matic micro res in the following order: Res --> Pump --> Rad --> Block --> Res Common sense suggests to me that the flow rate from the pump is too much for the small res to take and is causing too much turbulance. But could it be anything else? I don't really wan to have to go out and buy another res. Any suggestions welcome.
you could try running it as a closed loop system, just remove the res and put a t-piece in its place with a small length of tube on the T and use that for filling/bleeding the system.
Im guesing its the turbulance thing that is a monster of a pump for such a small setup consisting of a sngle fan rad and only 1 block. You could try sitting there slowly removing thebubles i did that once with a Tank-o-matic and my loop was completly free but i did have a 1048 so it was less flow.
I was going to add a few more blocks in the near future so I went for the 1250. I tried dunking the res in a bucket with the lid off and that sorted it out, I'll try using a t-piece when I can get my hands on one. If I create some flow resistance by squashing the tube slightly just after the pump could this help? or will it cause too much premature wear and tear or risk the tube splitting? (it's tygon). Thanks for the quick help guys!
Put the res in the bucket and odn't conenct the inlet leave that flowing into a bucket. Shake the rad and block and pump etc. untill all da bubbles are out. Then under water connect the hose to the inlet of the res.
Why didn't I think of connecting it underwater? That worked perfectly, thanks HQ08-Modder! Now for the leak test...
Yer im doign the same now, bloody hard stuff. Leak testing for liek 2 nights because i cbf setting it up
SeVeReDhEaD you can put a sponge in the res to prevent bubbles from coming into the inlet. you can either use the sponge from the eheim or take a new one and cut into a rounded shape. it works very well p.s. If you want to sell the res let me know i'll buy from you straight away!
Leak testing for 2 nights thats a bit exsecive but thats just me i don't bother leaking it now just slap it in and wack it on . Thats a bit of an old pic but the res is still inthe same position top of the case looking cool and containing minimal bubles its got a few tinny ones in it but not much, currently my res after a quick re tubing last week has a ****ING great big one in it lol its great looks so cool doesn't affect cooling as theres no air in the system but damn its cool
Didn't realise how long the proper tank-o-matic looks, the acrylic on the micro is about 1/3 of the size! It hasn't got those tubes inside it either, which I'm guessing seperates the inlet from the outlet a bit more. There's no bubbles in it now (at last) so don't really want to take it apart again yet, but when I do take it apart again I may try the sponge idea. Thanks for all your help.
