With tube resovoir will this work?

wissel

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I'm thinking about getting rid of my bay res and adding a tube one. The reason for this is where my PC sits sideways in a unit I cant see any of the drive bays (case has a door on front , Define XL, not enough room to open).

So I'm thinking of adding a window to the side of my case and adding the tube. My question is does the pump need to be below the res or can it be beside it as in this picture?

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Pump is a D5 but would need a top for it, are the Alphacool's OK?

The order would be res - pump - bottom rad - blocks - top rad - back to res.
 
It will work fine, but you will have to tilt the case whilst filling and make your you get an advanced EK res or similar, not the basic.
 
Bubo said:
It will work fine, but you will have to tilt the case whilst filling and make your you get an advanced EK res or similar, not the basic.
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Cheers for that, was looking at the EK advanced 250.

I would add a fill and drain port, would I still need to tilt to fill?

(didn't know if your tilt comment was to get to the tube or something to do with the pump height?)
 
jeff6475 said:
i maybe wrong but i dont think that will work,doesnt the res have to be above the pump so it can feed it ?
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My thinking is as long as the top of the water in the res is higher than the top of the pump then it should be OK to feed the pump?

When I fill my res now water flows around my loop right up until its level with the top of my res, I don't use the pump to fill until I'm at this point.

If I redo my loop as shown I could move the pump lower to fill the loop then place in the drive bay once the loop is full. Would the pump placement be OK once the loop is full?
 
If you check my sig, you can see my placement of my tube res, advanced ek 150 though, but a 250 would fit i should imagine.
 
yes itll work fine as long as you have fluid or head above the pump inlet and no air in the system which u do cause the rad is higher

the res can be at the bottom of the loop as long as the pump has a feed higher.. which it does have

for filling either tilt or add in a fill port tube
 
hyperst said:
If you check my sig, you can see my placement of my tube res, advanced ek 150 though, but a 250 would fit i should imagine.
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Looks really good. I love the Define XL for modding - so much you can do with it. The reason I'm hoping I can mount the D5 in the drive bay is to try and get it silent, the bays will be empty so loads of room for dampening.

Have you modded your side panel? If so any pics?
 
wissel said:
Looks really good. I love the Define XL for modding - so much you can do with it. The reason I'm hoping I can mount the D5 in the drive bay is to try and get it silent, the bays will be empty so loads of room for dampening.

Have you modded your side panel? If so any pics?
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No, not yet, not sure what to do on it, was thinking modders mesh at the bottom for the four fans and a window above but add a fan or two on the window as it should be big enough:)
 
I am personally not a fan of fill ports as they restrict what you can do when bleeding in terms of making it hard to keep the point you are adding water horizontal whilst you tilt the case about. I attach a temporary length of tube to the top port on the res and hold that out of the case whilst tilting, that way I can keep it level so water can't get out, and also add more water easily. You could add a fill port later for topping up purposes though.
 
just make sure that it's primed and that a head of water remains above the pump. Otherwise when you turn off, any air will rise (or the water will drop, you choose which way you want ot look at it) and you'll end up de-priming the pump, filling it with air.

Why not get a res that you can integrate into your pump into? I felt sure that there is an adapter for the multires range...
 
Bubo said:
I am personally not a fan of fill ports as they restrict what you can do when bleeding in terms of making it hard to keep the point you are adding water horizontal whilst you tilt the case about. I attach a temporary length of tube to the top port on the res and hold that out of the case whilst tilting, that way I can keep it level so water can't get out, and also add more water easily. You could add a fill port later for topping up purposes though.
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Like the idea of attaching a tube for filling,so basically if I lean my case forward to fill it I should be fine putting the pump in the drive bays.

Tattysnuc said:
just make sure that it's primed and that a head of water remains above the pump. Otherwise when you turn off, any air will rise (or the water will drop, you choose which way you want ot look at it) and you'll end up de-priming the pump, filling it with air.

Why not get a res that you can integrate into your pump into? I felt sure that there is an adapter for the multires range...
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I use clear tubing so will easily see any drop in levels. The water level in the tube also works out about 4 cm higher than the top of the pump.

I did think about attaching the pump directly to the tube, thing is I'm trying to get as silent as possible and having the pump in the empty drive bays gives me lots of room for dampening.
 
Well it seems to have worked :cool:

Tilted to be filled:

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Filled and leak testing (hopefully for the last time):

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...and it is now silent with the pump and fans all on so I'm happy :)
 
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