like the sleeveing mate looks great
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like the sleeveing mate looks great
Ditto what the others have said on sleeving the cathodes, that is just excellent. +rep
So far the cathodes have been running 2 hours and no melting of the sleeving, yet. ;)
Here's a little teaser:
They don't call em cold cathodes for ****s 'n giggles.
Ok, teasin' again.
I wonder what this is?
I'd rep you for the cathode idea, but I don't have any rep that I know of. >__<
Mind if I try it sometime in the future?
#46: A little tip: Look at my post (#45). Right next to it, there an icon of a heart with a green plus sign. Click it. I dare you. Click it. :)
Oh, and just go ahead using the sleeving CCFL's idea. It's not like it's patented or anything...
oh good, I can call off the lawyer.
anyway, +rep for an awesome project
love the cathode wrap man , wayy clean.
It's been a while since my last update, so here's another huge one...
In the meantime a lot has happened. For some good reasons I cannot reveal everything in this update (see the next update, which I'll post RIGHT after this one).
Last time I showed you a video of me filling the loops. Oh, and yeah, I showed a teaser picture, too. More on that picture in the next update ;)
Ok, prior to filling the loops, I had installed the pumps on the XSPC reservoir:
I had decided not to sleeve the pump wires, since they'd be hidden on they way up to the Aquaero:
The reservoir is now in place:
Ok, put the bottom radiator in and installed the dust filters on the intakes. I had to remove app. 1,5 mm. of material from one side of each filter to bring the spacing between the inner mounting holes down to 15 mm., to fit the standard mounting hole spacing of the fans on the radiator:
Radiator in place:
Worked on Cable management for the fans on the bottom radiator. Of course I don't want them to just lie there in the bottom of the case:
I had to remove one of the corners on the backside case fan. Otherwise, I'd run into spacing problems with the draining system for the lower loop::
As seen from the outside, this is the backside case fan:
Also sleeve a short cable for the S-SATA HDD:
The new Corsair HX620 PSU would't sit all the way into the case, due to the top radiator taking up all the space, so I had to pull it out slightly. I found some spacers to attach the PSU to the case:
Didn't like the brass surface, so I heat-shrink'ed it. Looks MUCH better, IMO:
Additional pictures of the assembly process:
This is what was left from 2 metres of tubing after I was done putting both loops together:
Add coolant to the loops - you've already seen the video, so here are the pictures:
Had ordered some Bitspower low-profile plugs for my Bitspower X-adaptors:
Yeah, there actually much more low-profile than the old plugs:
Not a lot of room left when the X-adaptor is in place on the bottom radiator. There's a gap of app. 1,5 mm. between fan and plug - and app. 1 mm. between grill and plug:
In the end there was room for everything:
While testing the Aquaero'en I managed to erase its firmware (don't ask why it's even possible to do so!)...
It happened while I was trying to reset it to factory defaults - using a key combination that I held TOO long (we're talking of 4-5 seconds too long here) the firmware was erased completely and now I have to ship the device to Germany to be fixed. As I said: don't ask why they included an option to erase the firmware completely, rendering the device utterly useless. And don't ask why they opted to put it on the same key combo used for resetting the device. Really stupid, if you ask me! Fortunately, they've removed this "feature" from the Aquaero v.4, but since I have a v.3.07, I had to send it to Germany. Sigh....
Oh well, while it was on its way to Germany, I used the homemade fan controller. And that means lots of cable mess:
Fortunately, it's absolutely free to have your damaged Aquaero repaired at Aqua Computer (well, at least for damage like this). Free for anybody - not just me, hehe. They put the latest firmware on it and sent it quickly back to me. All I had to cover were the shipping costs.
And now it's back:
So I sleeved the USB cable that connects the Aquaero to an internal USB port:
... and tested it:
Lo and Behold, it works - however, it has some trouble powering 2 fans connected to the same channel. It's as if it's distributing most of the power to only one of the fans. I don't know why it's acting like that, but I must change my plans due to that. Originally, I had planned to connect the RPM wire of the 2 pumps to 2 channels on the Aquaero, so it would shut down the computer in case of a pump malfunction, but now I'll have to use the fan headers on the motherboard for that task. Which means the Aquaero will control 4 fans (2 on each radiator), one connected to each channel. And since that's the number of fans it was meant to control, everything's fine and dandy, I guess. This also leaves me with some additional fan controlling options. Eg. now I can switch of one of the fans (or maybe even both) when there's no need for it - the Aquaero will automatically turn on the fan when it's needed, which could be nice.
Join me for the next update that will reveal some major stuff!
