Laing DDC ultra DEAD! Burned!

[| raVen |]

Hello guys!

Yesterday while I was playing Skyrim, i felt smell of burning plastic and electric staff, and realised that my pump doesnt work. So immediately turn off my system and than I checked every singel component. When I took pump a part smoke start to coming off and this terrible smell I'm so happy that I didnt sell my D14 and now this baby cooling my cpu I already spoke to specialtech and they said that when I will send them my pump they will send me replacement, so yeah for next weeks o so I'm on air cooling again

Does any one know what was the reason that pump burned???

Should I ask specialtech for D5 instead of DDC?

Thanks.

Also have a look at this pictures.









burned Phobya noise descructor

 

[SieB]

Wow, thats messed up

Either your pump couldn't cope or it was from a bad batch, i'd get a stronger one just in case though, the D5s are stronger than the DDCs so go for one of those.

 

[Firat]

Simmilar thing happened to me, although mine just stopped working rather then catch fire.

DDC's are known to be hot and seen as you were playing a game, the looped must have gotten very warm and caused it to burn.

The mount could have caused it, the bootom of the ddc (the circular center) needs airflow so a flat foam/rubber surface would only increase heat.

were was it mounted, was there airflow directly on the ddc?

mine failed because i moved my pump from a high airflow part of the case (sat there fine for 6 months) to the 5.25" bays for a better loop, it failed in 2 weeks... not enough airflow.

 

[ruthless_villain]

this is why i ordered two for my next rig lol

 

[AMDFTW]

wow that is F'd

unlucky mate hope you get it sorted ASAP

 

[mayhem]

a water leak can make that happen when water gets into the housing. could have been like that if you used a after market top and it leaked into the pump it self, or if it over heated.

Also like for like replacement and like for like is not a D5. If they did do that that would above and beyond the call of duty.

 

[| raVen |]

I havent got any water leak, already cheacked it. I dont know because before I was playing even for longer( yesterday for just about 2h), my cpu while Im gaming doesng get hot at all, than on idle. If anyone want to check how pump was mounted just go to rig gallery and search for "H20 green raven".

I think I ask specialtech for D5 and I just can pay some extra money cuz D5 cost more than DDC. Dont really know what to do. Does D5 goes that hot like DDC?

 

[mayhem]

All pumps get hot, they dump the heat back into the water to get rid of the heat.

You can get a HS for the DDCs though.

 

[| raVen |]

All pumps get hot, they dump the heat back into the water to get rid of the heat.

You can get a HS for the DDCs though.

Which one?

http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop...or-Laing-DDC-Pumps--HTS-PMP400-pid-12653.html

or

http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop...-MCP35-Series-Pumps--MCP35X-HS-pid-13559.html

and if I will use the koolance one, how can I mount the pump into the case with this heatsink cuz you have no longer mounting holes for the screws???

 

[Paulie]

DDc's are well known to go bad but only rarely, that said yours is quite possibly the worst I've ever seen though, looks as though it actually caught fire

I own 3 ddc's ultras in total, the oldest being a swiftech that is now, 3 years+ old i think and thankfully all are still going strong with 2 in daily use.

I would recommend the koolance HTS-PMP400 or the swiftech ddc heatsink as due to the compaq design, they do produce a large amount of heat and its only made worse if you try to reduce the pump speed without the use of a dedicated controller.

I'm really quite surprised that still today nobody has designed a water block for this pump as tbh it needs one.

If you do go for a d5 its a good choice, stronger pump and much quieter but much larger

 

[mayhem]

Some has made a water block for them but its a custom job.

@X raVen X yes those are supposed to be one of the best HS. Another excellent Koolance product. There is a mounting system for that product. All do you can add a small fan to that to help dissipate the heat.

this might be it but contact koolance first mate : http://www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=980

and the fan http://www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=69

 

[| raVen |]

Thanks guys

Nice one

Yeah I think that I go for this HS, but I dont think so that I'll be able to screw the base to this mount with HS cuz you have different screw spacing.

Anyway I think that I will no longer be doing this in RV03 because its bit to small case for proper water cooling and I wont to have a GPU and CPU cooled with no spacing issues, because when I had to drain my system and took out everything I found this to bit quite hard, because of my case size.

So yeah I think that I will have to get a LITTLE bit bigger case with 2 rads support

Also this HS have some side mounts so I guess that I will be able to just drill 2 tiny holes in the bottom of case and than put some rubber and mount the pump with HS and extra 80mm fan http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop...-Series-Cooling-Fan--FD-FAN-80-pid-10880.html

Yeah first I need to get this pump back

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

So your cooling solution needs a cooling solution?

 

[| raVen |]

So your cooling solution needs a cooling solution?

My cooling solution not, but looks like my pump needs some.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

My cooling solution not, but looks like my pump needs some.

Same thing

. Nevermind

 

[| raVen |]

Same thing

. Nevermind

Not really

 

[airdeano]

X raVen X, have you got a solution to your pump burn-out, yet?

this has made me re-think my loop abit.

airdeano

 

[db87]

Since today I can say that I burned my second Laing pump. I always tought that Laing made decent pumps but the electronics are junk!

Avoid Laing pumps.

 

[Bartacus]

Or you could just go D5 since those seem pretty indestructible.

 

[Warchild]

this is why i bought 2 heatsinks to go with my mcp35x pumps