Project: Silent Overkill

LePhuronn said:
I only have 100ml res, but it's a borosilicate glass job so not exactly light when it's filled up. The res will be braced at the top too, so fingers-crossed nothing goes belly up!
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I have the same res, the mount does a decent job (probably because of it having 4 screws holding it onto the base) and if you have it braced at the top as well I doubt you'll have any problems.
 
Man you're stronger willed than I. I mean don't get me wrong I'm like a Jack Russell with a Bruce Lee kung fu grip when it comes to patience (self taught I may add :D ) but those LEDs would do my head in. Do you still see them when you close your eyes?

Kinda like when you go fishing and you sit and stare at the sun rippling in the water all day and then when you go to bed you can still see it lol.
 
To be honest, the worst moment was 2/3 of the way through the second bank of three. For some reason I decided to test them...and found two lit up red on one channel and one lit up red on another channel. I'd got red and blue swapped on one of the three and it took out all the blues. Thought I was going to have to redo the entire bank again for a minute. As it is, it thickened two of the joints (extra wire soldered in) where I really didn't have the space.

Even putting it all back together was a mission. You know when you have those days where everything seems to be on a mission to hack you off? It was one of those. Screws would slip off the Allen key, and then bury themselves in the most awkward place to get them back. You put something down for a second, turn round and it would have disappeared. I think I'd depleted all the colourful language in the area by the time I'd got it all back in!
 
Yup I have those days a lot dude. Where everything you touch just seems to turn to crap and the more annoyed you get the more mistakes you make. Other days I could do stuff with my eyes closed but some days it's nothing but a slog.

My lady and I have a cow skin rug. It's literally a cow that's been skinned lol. Due to that it alternates between black and white. Put anything down on it? if you put it in the wrong place it blends in. I end up doing some break dance style move (sitting down skipping around on my hands lol) trying to find stuff.

But yeah, I am king of dropping stuff. Especially when soldering (little things like shrink roll off the desk. I pick them up then something else falls lol).
 
DISASTER!! :eek: (that's not the term I want to exclaim...but this one isn't contrary to the rules!)

Had played a bit of State of Decay and then was dealing with some email. Odd gurgling noise. Had a look and the res was just about empty! Turns out the only pieces of cast acrylic left (other than the blocks) had failed. I'd seen crazing on the Barrow filter and the Barrow 60mm link tube previously used as a riser to the GPU. They pressure tested ok but given that you could feel the fractures with your fingernail I replaced them anyway. The only ones left are the links to the rad and they'd looked fine...Nope!
Top one has split end to end but on the bottom surface where you couldn't see it. Didn't need to bother putting in a drain after all! :rolleyes:

Carpet is soaked (res is 880ml - luckily the leak was the top rad link or I'd have been in line for 2.5 litres. Only plus is that as it leaked externally (external rad FTW! :p) it didn't soak everything inside. Also, thanks to the Vax, I got the spill halted before it filled either the floor box (mains power and networking!) or the UPS!

So currently I'm thinking to replace the acrylic rad links with metal fittings. Not as pretty...but not likely to split either!
 
OH LORD! How fast must it have emptied through that split?!

It looks like the watercooling god has favored your build though. All that water and not a single damaged component...
 
I'm not honestly sure how fast as for some reason the fill level registered 100% the whole time....which is something I'll be looking at when refilling it! I only noticed when I heard the churning as the res was nearly empty. The pros and cons of black office carpet....it doesn't show the wet.

Took me a little while to work out where it had leaked from too! In that pic, the tube has been rotated but normally that split was pointing straight down so you couldn't see anything - even though it's clear.

As you say, good that I got away without soaking everything at least. Not that keen to test the non-conductiveness to that degree! Turns out there's at least some wisdom in mounting the rad on the outside :D ;)
 
I think that the Barrow supplier is having a long weekend - which is fair play...but why do these things always happen to coincide with a weekend?!
Going to see if I can knock something up for the weekend.
 
So, where are we now? Well, parts should turn up on Wednesday to replace the acrylic links to the rad. Good job I had a play around as just straight replacing 20mm tube with 20mm worth of extenders didn't fit!

For now, I've cobbled it together with a variety of spare parts: a Barrow 10.5mm F-F extender, an EK 8mm M-F extender and a Barrow 15mm M-M rotary. Spurs were suitably sharpened before assembly *jingle* ;) The lower link is still as it was....and that doesn't make me at all nervous *cough* Still, I need to get some gaming in at times over the weekend.

Three things I did discover while reassembling:
  • If you run the pumps to before replacing the cap you left off on the rad to allow the air out, it WILL spray coolant over your keyboard! Seriously, who let me near the wet stuff?! Not sure I'm even cut out for air-cooling sometimes!
  • The fill level sensor on my res is stuck. It's differential pressure based so the only thing I can assume is a blockage or it's suddenly developed knackeredness. It did work while I was filling it last time after the LEDs though. Must have stopped some time afterwards. Will strip it down when I get the parts in and see if it wants to play. May have to swap out the module from the 150ml I've got.
  • My Aquaero is most likely going to need replacing. The speaker was a bit dodgy before....but filling it full of coolant means that at best, it can click slightly. It also seems to stop responding to the screen buttons after a while. I don't think it's the cable - although I will shorten it and do better crimps now I have the tools. I suspect that the three-legged capacitor on the end that went crack when I put the heatsink on may be to blame - it stuck up a bit too far. I think it may be destined to become the media unit controller I kept trying to persuade myself I needed.

Well, one screen up and running but enough for gaming. Don't trust it on the floor for the moment and need to give the carpet time to dry!....but she ain't dead yet :D
 
Jebus, that was beyond lucky! Well not lucky, but lucky at the same time really, could have been carnage :eek:

Top work on the water fountain radiator top though, bet that was a pretty impressive sight to behold and far better than the little shop bought indoor fountains. If only you'd gone with a nice coloured pastel coolant that could have been Dubai shopping mall levels of spectacular... :D

Hopefully all goes a bit more to plan next time she's filled, not sure there can be much more left to go wrong for you now :/
 
OJ46 said:
not sure there can be much more left to go wrong for you now :/
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Have you not heard the phrase: You can idiot-proof something....but there'll always be a more talented idiot!
Just didn't realise before now that I was the talented idiot! Glad I'd only connected one pump rather than both!
 
Cenedd said:
Have you not heard the phrase: You can idiot-proof something....but there'll always be a more talented idiot!
Just didn't realise before now that I was the talented idiot! Glad I'd only connected one pump rather than both!
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It's probably for the best we live so far apart lol. Don't ever let me near one of your computers :D
 
I weakened and succumbed to the lure of a 60 degree fitting to got between the filter and the res. Found one by CoolForce. Looks good in the pics...but we'll see.
 
Can't post a pic as it's from a competitor - no other choice for a 60 degree in black. Nanoxia could be right as they turned up in the search but we're US based - assumed that was the shop name! :D They look very much like a Barrow fitting; diamond knurling on the rotary and matt black with no logo on the top. Will see if it's any good when it gets here.
 
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