Need help with drainage point in my loop

[west1980]

This is first time I've put a drainage point in my loop ,but it doesn't seem to drain all water.

There is still water left in system I can't get out,I've put a fitting in top left port in radiator to release some pressure,the only place I can find for lowest point is bottom of reservoir.

 

[Supa Koopa]

Maybe I'm confused but the lowest point in your system is the bottom rad, so if the drainport isn't there you'll never get all the water out. Sorry if I'm mistaken.

 

[west1980]

Maybe I'm confused but the lowest point in your system is the bottom rad, so if the drainport isn't there you'll never get all the water out. Sorry if I'm mistaken.

I didn't think that would work that way,never used a drain point before.

I normally use soft tube so it was easy to cut tube and drain that way.

 

[Supa Koopa]

yeah it would be tricky with how you have it set up, but that is the problem with the Enthoo and using the bottom rad space. Probably the reason why I've not done it myself yet.

 

[west1980]

yeah it would be tricky with how you have it set up, but that is the problem with the Enthoo and using the bottom rad space. Probably the reason why I've not done it myself yet.

Was thinking of getting the fractal design s,might make life easier

 

[Glanza]

If your keeping it there have you tried putting your case on it's side with the drain pipe hanging down?

 

[west1980]

If your keeping it there have you tried putting your case on it's side with the drain pipe hanging down?

I've tried different ways and can't get any more water out ,but case is so heavy it's akward,probably be easier if i could suck the water out with a wet vacuum lol.

 

[west1980]

Maybe I'm confused but the lowest point in your system is the bottom rad, so if the drainport isn't there you'll never get all the water out. Sorry if I'm mistaken.

if i was to put a q adapter on the bottom rad and use that for a drain port that would be best option ?

Tried it,still didn't get all water out,nearly 2 litres of water in the loop.

 

[Undesirable]

Maybe you can syphon the rest out by attaching flexible tubing to one of the bottom rad ports that you can get to and sucking until it nearly reaches your mouth then lower it into a container (make sure fill port is open). Or you can get 2 flexible tubes either end of the rad, blow into one and it should come out the other tube into a container. I would never have a rad flat on the bottom like that for this very reason (unless the rad had additional end ports and I was willing to drill a hole in the bottom of my case).

As you can see, some of the liquid has drained from the tubing below the drainage point level (it got sucked out by pressure or somesuch) but it'll never empty an entire rad.

 

[elmuzzy66.]

You could always put a piece of tubing at the top of the res and flip the case up side down.

 

[Sin_Chase]

Sorry to be blunt.....but you are making this more complicated than it is.

You will not drain any water out of the loop that is BELOW your drain port. That bottom rad will never drain without:

- Suction
- Siphon action
- Changing orientation so that drain port is lower

It's that simple.

Best case scenario is that the bottom rad has 4 ports, 2 of which are on the bottom side (as viewed), on one of which you can add a drain port to. Without that, you will need to add a drain port to the bottom rad and orient the case 90 degrees so that said drain port is the lowest point.

 

[deFiniLoGy]

Sorry to be blunt.....but you are making this more complicated than it is.

You will not drain any water out of the loop that is BELOW your drain port. That bottom rad will never drain without:

- Suction
- Siphon action
- Changing orientation so that drain port is lower

It's that simple.

Best case scenario is that the bottom rad has 4 ports, 2 of which are on the bottom side (as viewed), on one of which you can add a drain port to. Without that, you will need to add a drain port to the bottom rad and orient the case 90 degrees so that said drain port is the lowest point.

Actually, the OP can, just a bit more complicated then he'd like to be.

The majority of the fluid can be drained by repeatingly inverted the case and so the bottom rad can have its water flow across and out of the draining valve.

However a few invertion, the bottom rad should only have less than half of its full capacity, at which point if you just dissassemble the loop you can take the rad out directly and pour it down the drain (or however you dispose the fluid)

 

[Sin_Chase]

Actually, the OP can, just a bit more complicated then he'd like to be.

The majority of the fluid can be drained by repeatingly inverted the case and so the bottom rad can have its water flow across and out of the draining valve

Yup, that's changing the orientation to move the drain port location. Looking at that tubing run though, it's going to be an absolute nightmare to manhandle that case in such a way to get the coolant out.

 

[deFiniLoGy]

Yup, that's changing the orientation to move the drain port location. Looking at that tubing run though, it's going to be an absolute nightmare to manhandle that case in such a way to get the coolant out.

True.

But actually, OP can start by draining most of the loop, ensure the top rad is all drained and unplug the tube connecting the GPU block to the top rad, and use that to blow the fluid out. (Occluding the now-empty inlet of the rad of course)

I often that and it seems to work for me for a lot of hard tube build.

After all, bottom rad is not supposed to be drained empty when any drain valve anyway.

 

[west1980]

Sorry to be blunt.....but you are making this more complicated than it is.

You will not drain any water out of the loop that is BELOW your drain port. That bottom rad will never drain without:

- Suction
- Siphon action
- Changing orientation so that drain port is lower

It's that simple.

Best case scenario is that the bottom rad has 4 ports, 2 of which are on the bottom side (as viewed), on one of which you can add a drain port to.

Without that, you will need to add a drain port to the bottom rad and orient the case 90 degrees so that said drain port is the lowest point.

Might have to do that then,I would see about a XSPC RX240 Dual Fan Radiator V3 with 4 ports.