Bitspower dual rotary's leaking?

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Ultim8

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Hi,

I started putting my rig together last night and i've had to replace a bitspower 45 degree dual rotary and a 90 degree triple rotary as they were leaking from the rotary joins. And now another 90 degree has started to leak again from the rotary joint.

Obviously with it being the rotary joints there little i can do but wondered if anyone else had experienced this?

Cheers
 
You have three leaky fitting in the same delivery !!!
either you have a REALLY powerfull pump
or someone spilled some solvant on your fittings
or quality is going to pot at Bitspower.
or your the unluckiest watercooling in the UK

Edit: google brings up a few (but we are talking a hand full) the OZ one have a vid on the forum post.
Does the joint have any lateral movement (aka wiggle)
 
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yeah think i must just be unlucky, bought a load of bitspower stuff and paid that extra compared to other brands because they are the best of the best and they failed on me lol.

And to answer a few of your questions shadowscotland.

Pumps are dual DDC 3.25 (2 Loops)
No solvent as they was still sealed in the original bitspower bags.
Possibly although maybe i just had a 1 in a million bad batch, generally bitspower rock.
Yes also possible :D

And yes the dual rotarys are very stiff however the ones i used were more easily rotating hence i used them first........ to get the replacements on i had to hold the collar with pliers and rotate the bend :-s
 
Hi.

I had used a Bitspower 90 degree rotary fitting and had experienced leaks aswell. I did figure out that the thread on the barb that I had used was a bit long, hence the cooling fluid escaping between the threads. I used a spacer between the barb and fitting which had solved my problem!!
 
its official im the unluckiest watercooler..............just after getting everything sorted i put the machine on the last leak test....everything fine and dandy, put the side panel on so the toddler wouldnt rip it to pieces fired her up and began installing win7............went for a smoke..........came back...........nothing on the screen thought it was rebooting but it couldnt seem to kick in......reset cmos same thing........hmmmm noticed an air bubble by the cpu block........tocuhed air bubble and accidentally touched the compression fitting.........owww f$%£ thats hot.

When i slid the side panel on it must have just caught the power connector to one pump........looks like the cpu fried and i have a burnt finger and the tubing which was clear now looks a misty white near the block.

So new i7 920 D0 needed and redo the tubing.....b@llox
 
I'd be suprised if the CPU is fried - they have good thermal management... fingers crossed fire it up with a working cooler on there and it'll be fine.

I do seriously advise you to ditch the watercooling tho :S lol
 
Yep, had my 920 shut down when pump failed to start and i didn't notice, got to desktop, realtemp loaded and saw 88c before black screen and PC shut down, tried turning back on and would only go for a few seconds before shutting down

Checked loop and block was baking, let it cool whilst looked at loop and the power connector from pump had come loose, sorted that and turned back on and all was well :)

Thermal management of the chips works well
 
right plugged it back in and its still a no go so going to start another thread in the general hardware section.
 
Nightmare - really not having much luck with the watercooling - usually leak testing should have cleared all the bubbles hours before loading up a OS

Might be worth a wanted thread for a local watercooler to pop round and give your loops a once over for potential issues / simple fixs.
Some times a second pair of eyes will spot something you've missed.
 
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i had the axact same thing of knocking the pump connector out... cpu went to 90oC and made it into windows, but shut off very quickly. the pipes going into the cpu block were very warm, but it didn't dmage my cpu :) you'll be fine

edit: you sound as unlucky as me dude!
 
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