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Hydor L30 too warm??

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Maverick1707

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Hi,

I got an Hydor L30. I built a test loop with just tubing and the pump to test how dificult it would be to get rid of bubbles using a T line for bleeding/filling.

Well after 2-3 hours working, I touched the pump and it was warm like hell. Also the tube was warm so I decided to check the water temp and it was 41ºC.

It's my first watercooling experience so I don't know if that's normal. Of course that it's just pump+tubing with NO radiator but I didn't expect the pump to warm the water that much. When I build the whole loop I will have the rad. getting the water cooler but also a CPU and a GPU warming it. So should I expect the water to be cooler than those 41ºC once the loop is complete and computer on?

Thx
 
The pump will continually dump couple watts of heat into it, without a radiator to cool it, the water will not reduce in temperature. Instead, it will continually rise (up to a certain point of course). I wouldn't bother with the temps until you test the loop with the radiator.
 
The European version runs a little hotter than the us or asian models, 27w, so it gets warm.


Maverick1707 said:
Hi,

I got an Hydor L30. I built a test loop with just tubing and the pump to test how dificult it would be to get rid of bubbles using a T line for bleeding/filling.

Well after 2-3 hours working, I touched the pump and it was warm like hell. Also the tube was warm so I decided to check the water temp and it was 41ºC.

It's my first watercooling experience so I don't know if that's normal. Of course that it's just pump+tubing with NO radiator but I didn't expect the pump to warm the water that much. When I build the whole loop I will have the rad. getting the water cooler but also a CPU and a GPU warming it. So should I expect the water to be cooler than those 41ºC once the loop is complete and computer on?

Thx
 
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