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Nickolp1974

Nickolp1974

Nickolp1974

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Hi just wanted some advice, will post pic below.

I have a Koolance RP-45X2 dual res running 2x D5's in parallel and as you can see from the pic in the left chamber the mayhems ice white nano fluid is breaking down into 3/4 layers, both pumps are working and i have contacted koolance to check that i have it set up right and they say i do and the reason why its happening is there is no turbulence in that side of the res.
I have tried running pump on left faster than right and even turned right hand side off but results are the same, not too happy with this at all considering the price but my question to you is will this affect performance in any way??? what are your thoughts as i am going to contact koolance again.

thanks,
nick

edit:fluid looks worse in real life than on pic

That picture was over the 1280X size limit. Use spoiler tags if you want to show a humongous picture.
soz!!! forgot to resize, DONE!!
 
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Alright,
if it goes through one, then the other, and no option of missing one, then it's series. :)

hmm, now I'd speculate that the right one isn't pushing out enough, it's not getting the sediment out. It could be just pushing the lighter stuff(the water) around, this would me because the left one is pushing it completely through the right res without it getting a chance to fully mix.
Have you tried turning the left one off and seeing if the right one can take over and try and shift it?
 
just shut left one off for 5 mins and no change, i'll give it a rattle to see if theres any air, been running for a couple of months like this so doubtful, but if there was an air bubble in the left chamber it could possibly stop the chambers mixing???
 
Umm, Not sure...
Looking at the koolance website,
If we take your pic as the reference for left and right, the it looks like it's all setup right.
I'm wondering if there's some effect caused by that 180^ metal fitting/tube thing which I'm assuming is supplied to connect the right and left bays?

It should be designed to handle this, but you might be having an issue with the mayhems :/

I'm trying to think of things to suggest, because I can't think of an approach that keeps your loop intact, because I'd hate to suggest draining it if someone else has better Ideas, I hate being the only responder to someone :p
 
also using pump controller as shown in pic, both pumps appear to be working but hard to tell if off is fully off on the controller, the extra pump i installed made a loud noise at first but it was dry so shut down imediately and primed it, seems ok but they both make different humming noises possibly being due to the fact that one pushes and the other pulls??


 
right,
Now this bypass piece, It appears to me that it's preventing the left fluid from mixing, and it's the problem.
Now,only visually, it's the problem, the bay sounds like it's set-up right, but I think it wasn't setup with this kind of fluid in mind.
This bypass appears to be designed to prevent the mixing of fluid in the second chamber, as the original angled piece is designed to churn it.

The solution is to put the old piece in, but I feel that'll have a bad consequence due to the pressure the fluid will come in at :(
 
I have seen this before, but only with the pumps in series :S

In that instance because the coolant is pumped into the chamber on one side and out of the chamber on the other and the link between the chambers is at the bottom, it was only filtering across and the heat in the res was rising causing odd temps and flow between the two reservoirs which caused the coolant to break down.

*EDIT*

Haven't owned one of these in a while but IIRC if you have the bypass installed, then the coolant is bypassing that chamber, so the only flow into it will be via the connection at the bottom, so basically no flow as that operates on vacuum (flow into left chamber and out of right drawing fluid across).
 
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Nickolp1974 said:
the res is on QDC's so i could experiment!!!

would you try the 180 first or the bottom plug??? or like you said the bypass piece???
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The 180 piece is on the pump outlet, it can't be removed from there or the pump would be redundant, I only asked to double check :p

I believe it's the bypass piece not allowing the fluid coming in the inlet to circulate the left res before exiting, but I only have pictures to work from, I can't be 100% on the flow.
you could look and judge for yourself if this seems the culprit.

@ubersonic, his pumps are series
 
GiraffePencils said:
The 180 piece is on the pump outlet, it can't be removed from there or the pump would be redundant, I only asked to double check :p

I believe it's the bypass piece not allowing the fluid coming in the inlet to circulate the left res before exiting, but I only have pictures to work from, I can't be 100% on the flow.
you could look and judge for yourself if this seems the culprit.

@ubersonic, his pumps are series
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think i may just have to pull the res out and switch the bypass back, it perhaps needs to enter the res twice to allow it to mix, just wont know for about a month as the settlement process can take a while!! it is an optional alteration as stated in the manual

Also for serial operation, an acrylic bypass piece is
included for optional installation. This can improve
performance by preventing coolant from entering
the reservoir twice. With this installed, the reservoirs
can also be combined
Click to expand...
 
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