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when you first set up your watercooling and you fill it then bleed it and then test it outside the case for leaks..if there are no leaks then do you just put it in your case with the water already in? or do you drain the water and then install it and then refill and bleed in the pc?
Well I guess it depends on how much room you have. With my particular case I couldn't remove the motherboard mount so I just put everything in powered up the pump and hoped for no leaks.
That would be optimal considering you would be doing your work again (filling up the tubes) anyways. It is not an easy thing to do.
SkiFletch
08-14-02, 07:18 PM
if your setup is entirely inside the case, definitely fill it, test for leaks, and then install it. if like me, you pipe things outside the case, you have no choice but to bleed already installed....
RnPgrosz
08-14-02, 10:13 PM
I just recently setup my watercooling system and I just put everything in my case(took all components out besides mobo and cpu) and filled and bled it in my case, when I had determined there weren't any leaks I put all my components and it ran just fine. If you test it out of the case make sure you do a dryfit inside the case so you know the lengths of tubing etc.. Bleeding is very easy, just make sure your t-fitting is at the highest at point of the system(so the air will come out). When you turn the pump on it will start bleeding.
JFettig
08-14-02, 10:21 PM
i say....
i say you connect everything dry how its gonna be inside your case, pull it out still connected, now take off the pump intake line, submerge the pump in water(tub or sink, and turn it on, with the out hose going into the water when its completely buble free stick it back on and fill up your bleed line...
Originally posted by maskedgeek
i say....
i say you connect everything dry how its gonna be inside your case, pull it out still connected, now take off the pump intake line, submerge the pump in water(tub or sink, and turn it on, with the out hose going into the water when its completely buble free stick it back on and fill up your bleed line...
Wouldn't that tap water contaminate the insides of the system?
Anyway, I assembled my system outside the case, filled it and... ehm... it's still outside the case! :D
Fill it up outside the case, run it for a few days, check for leaks. Install it into the case, and leave it running for a few more days, without turning on the PC. If you've still got no leaks, power up your PC.
I do it that way because if you have a leak and the PC isn't turned on, 99% of the time, you won't break anything, you simply need to take all the stuff out again, and dry off your components.
Originally posted by dxiw
when you first set up your watercooling and you fill it then bleed it and then test it outside the case for leaks..if there are no leaks then do you just put it in your case with the water already in?
Thats how I always do it. I let it run outside the case for 24 hours before installing it.
JFettig
08-15-02, 02:03 PM
i dont even leak test for very long anymore... but i just fill it up, let it bleed and that is my leak testing... i make everything the rite sizes and lengths...
Originally posted by rnpgrosz
I just recently setup my watercooling system and I just put everything in my case(took all components out besides mobo and cpu) and filled and bled it in my case, when I had determined there weren't any leaks I put all my components and it ran just fine. If you test it out of the case make sure you do a dryfit inside the case so you know the lengths of tubing etc.. Bleeding is very easy, just make sure your t-fitting is at the highest at point of the system(so the air will come out). When you turn the pump on it will start bleeding.
I am trying to kill this myth where ever I see it: The bleed line does not have to be the highest point of the system.
Mobile20 is absolutly right.
I don't know where people even got this from. It might help to quicken the process a bit in very low GPH systems , but the pumps people use now circulate the water too fast for it to make a diff.
Just keep in mind to make the bleed tube or airtrap in the spot most prown to collecting air. Usually its after the pump or before after/before a rad.
This takes a few atempts to determine the best spot.
Some people sometimes add too much water wetter....it likes to foam when it gets pumped through the impeller chamber so an airtrap/blled tube would be but right after the pump......
Makes sense, ehh??? Well I think it does.......:beer:
does it still have to be relatively long in size for fill/bleeding..? does it effectively bleed the system if its not the high point (aka quickly)?
JFettig
08-15-02, 09:11 PM
Originally posted by Mobile20
I am trying to kill this myth where ever I see it: The bleed line does not have to be the highest point of the system.
i wonder if it was this thread were i said that also... it is very true that it doesnt have to be in the top.... i choose not to put it in top.... but werever it fits.... is were i put it...
RnPgrosz
08-15-02, 11:16 PM
Originally posted by Mobile20
I am trying to kill this myth where ever I see it: The bleed line does not have to be the highest point of the system.
Your right, it doesn't have to be at the highest point of the system but you might as well put it there because the fact is air is lighter than water and will move to the top. It should bleed quicker if you have it at the top so I don't see any reason not to put it there.
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