Project: LavaStone (UPDATED 19-08-06) - LOOP COMPLETE AND FILLED

tbh, i would rather have that external line just go straight down rather than out of the case...

 

id shove the DDC in a airing cupboard or somthing (somewhere warm) for a day, then try it, after the water is gone it might go again, otherwise its RMA for you

 

yeah thats one of the changes Ive made, it now come up in the corner of the case near the edge of the PCI slots...

pics will come shortly

The DDC is in the airing cupboard atm, will give it a go tomorrow at some point. Think I have the invoice somewhere so if it doesnt I should be able to RMA

 

It should dry up fine. Unless you left it plugged in then it may have corroded the wires.

 

Well, Ive not had a hugely productive day, Ive been helping a friend get some bits together for a mod on his P180.

But anyway here is the product of the last few days work on my rig - as I said before, the copper pipe idea has been scrapped for the moment until I can get a better way of fitting the pipe to the blocks (its a work in progress). So here are some pics of the rig as it stands:



^^ Here you can see where the tubing now comes up in the corner of the case, notice it is connected via a small piece of copper - this is for the future for when I do the piping proper, I can just sweat an in-line coupler on to there.



^^ My nice new 700w FSP PSU.



^^ Repack res all sorted and nice amount of flow going through it - water looks kinda cool and blue in the photo, but really its not coloured at all, only water wetter added.



^^ Radbox innards and PSU cables - I remounted the pump, this time with a section of Acoustic Foam underneath, nice and quiet now, only a vauge humm in the background but nothing noticeable.



^^ Got the mounting sorted for the Rheobus, those two pieces of batten allow it to just sit snuggly in the side of the radbox.

Notice in the Fourth picture that there is a small blue and white braided wire going by the drive bays - this is the red LED for the back of the Rheobus, it works great, but Im saving pics of that for tomorrow!

I did have one problem today though (grrr) when I was doing some work inside the drive bays, I was having to fight the tubing a bit to get the angle on the screw I needed to put in, and for some reason I'd forgot to put a hose clip onto the right hand barb of the NB block - DOH!, so on knocking the pipework, a little bit, and I mean a LITTLE bit of water dripped onto the top of the GFX card, I'm hopeful that overnight it should be OK to power on the sytem. Ive now rectified the problem, not with a hoseclip, as that would mean having to drain the loop and put a clip on, but Ive secured it with a nice big cable tie, and no matter how much I wiggle that tube now no water escapes so I think problem solved!

On another note, Ive left my DDC in the airing cupboard overnight and given it a try not so long ago, and its still dead, so Im gonna leave it til Monday, and if it doesnt work then I will have to RMA it to Alphacool.

Thats it for now, I hope tomorrow to get the front bezel back on and start installing the rest of the components back in, the Eudemon unit is going to take a while, but all being well I should be able to power up around this time tomorrow evening (hopefully it wont blow up due to that bit of water on the GFX card! )

 

Sweet ever considered softwall copper tubing for some of the places mainly where it meets a water block.

 

by that do you mean the 10mm microbore tubing you buy on a reel that is insulated in a white rubber type of lagging?