Is the Koolance PMP 500 960L/hr 32W any good ?
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alpenwasser
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paulstung
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That's the review I have just finished reading. From his results, it seems great. I can handle a couple of decimals, over a D5. For the price it is awesome, no need for a top, and the advantages of a built in heat sink. I'm very suprised on how small a unit it is, in the pics it looks huge.
I'm sold on it I think. It's a shame you can't mount it to a tube res though, but I'm sure I will manage. Nice and easy to control too, I suppose I can just hook it up to the Phantoms fan controller ?
I'm sold on it I think. It's a shame you can't mount it to a tube res though, but I'm sure I will manage. Nice and easy to control too, I suppose I can just hook it up to the Phantoms fan controller ?
jamesriley94
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If the fan controller on your case rapidly turns fans on and off rather than changing voltage (which I'm pretty sure the Phantom does) then I wouldn't be trusting the pump on it. Also, I doubt it could supply the necessary power for the pump.
Run it straight off molex, if you can find a short molex extender lying around, or even one of the molex to 3 pin fan with a daisy chained molex connector then you can get creative and use that...
Then rewire that extender to tap into either 5v or 7v.
I'll explain this better if you want to do it.
alpenwasser
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^^^This.
I would also recommend this if you can't get a strong enough fan controller. It's quite easy to do.
If you really want to be able to change the pump speed easily, you could try running it off a variable resistor that can handle the power, they're quite cheap and small, so you could hide it anywhere.
alpenwasser
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According to nzxt's website on the sentry mix, it has 50 W per channel, so that should work.
EDIT: A Rheostat is one form of a variable resistor, for more see here. But if the Sentry Mix can handle 50 W per channel and you already have that I don't think there's a reason not to use it for the pump, aside maybe that a potentiometer is a lot more compact.
EDIT: A Rheostat is one form of a variable resistor, for more see here. But if the Sentry Mix can handle 50 W per channel and you already have that I don't think there's a reason not to use it for the pump, aside maybe that a potentiometer is a lot more compact.
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paulstung
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That's good to hear about the sentry, I would be using it now, but with the bay res, there just isn't room (I have the inlet to the front rad on the top port ) Plus a couple of my fans won't start on level 1 on the Phantoms controller, I need to start on 2 then turn down. It's easy enough to do, but I'm lazy. I would like to be able just to switch my rig on, and not faf about. I'm probably not the only 1 with that view. Thanks again mate.
alpenwasser
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Turning something on and having it just working as we like without further intervention?
Heresy! :whipping:
/<sarcasm>
