Leak testing

Soldato
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I've just had a big clean out of my PC, first time I have done it so just wanting some advice on using the EK flexible Leak Tester. Its the standard pre built O11D XL, side distro, 2 rads, gpu water block and cpu water block.
Basically do you just attach it to the distro plate and pump until it reaches 0.45 bar, seems the manual suggests this. So far in doing this the pressure hasn't dropped. Says in manual you only need to wait between 5 and 15 mins.

Questions really are, does it matter which part of distro plate, I used the fill port one. And this does the whole system? For some reason Im feeling its only doing the distro but I guess the air just goes through the whole system?
Thanks.
 
Pretty much spot on. You can use the fill port and it will pressurise the whole system as the entire run is all connected together. Only caveat might be if you've got some residual coolant left in the system it could theoretically water/air lock areas, but that's going to be pretty unlikely.
I have the same tester btw :)
 
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