My first watercooling rig (da2ca)

name='PV5150' said:
Your rig internally looks real sweet after the new changes da2ca. One question though - what's up with all the bubbles in your res?
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Very, Very good question and i do not have an answer. It was something i was going to ask on here about but have not got around to it.

These bubbles appeared after the last rebuild. I used new F1 coolant and added the new pump. I am thinking it may be the pump is to powerful for my setup? As (i have added a better picture) the return water is really churning up the surface water in the res.

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Does filling the res up not help? Buy one of those whirlpool stopper things.. that go between the intake and outtake...
 
name='Pat123' said:
Does filling the res up not help? Buy one of those whirlpool stopper things.. that go between the intake and outtake...
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I was told to leave space for expansion. The stopper is for a different res. This res doesn’t suffer the whirlpool effect as the return comes in via a 100mm long pipe within the res. Its just that the return goes through this tube through the rest of the res and breaks the surface like a geyser.
 
name='FleX.overclock3d' said:
really really nice dude, it looks so much better than a first attempt :D
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I don’t know if i really should call it a first attempt now as its been modified over the past few months with bits being changed/updated as i go. I thought rather than starting a new thread i would just update this one. I will look at updating the title of the thread, but i think a mod will have to do that.

Thanks for your kind comment.

Dave.
 
I dont think you need a gap that big.. Ive left about 1cm at the top of my res.. And i ve never noticed it change as as the computer is running.
 
200mL of water at room temperature will only expand to 208.31mL at 100C

Feser one is a bit different...but I wouldn't expect a drastic deviation
 
No problemooo... Take a pic of the res when you have topped it up? Sweet looking rig mind. Wish i could be arsed to make my cables tidy
 
name='Pat123' said:
I dont think you need a gap that big.. Ive left about 1cm at the top of my res.. And i ve never noticed it change as as the computer is running.
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Undo the top of your EK res after it's been running a while.

@ da2ca: Feel free to fill it almost to the top and your issue will go away.
 
You still get bubbles? :S wtf lol.. That must be one powerful pump.. Have you tried cutting down the tube?
 
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