Pump vibration...

[r4fo]

Any ideas on how to stop the pump vibration? putting rubber or some kind of foam between the pump and the chasis, do you think could do the job??

[Moony349]

Yeah. Try cutting up an old mouse pad and absorbing vibration that way.

[Graystar]

I found that suspending the pump works great. I just tie a piece of string around some part of the case and the pump, then make sure the pump is just a tiny bit above the floor of the case.

[r4fo]

Great...thanks for the tips...

[Icebl@ster]

hmm suspending it that would be interesting

[Como]

that was my first thought.

[WejRepus]

suspending is ok as long as you dont plan on moving your case to a lan party or anything, if you dont leave a little slack for the pump to move there is a chance it will pull on all the tubing and cause leaks or worse, plus a pump swinging around like a crazy ape can damage your mobo, vid card etc...

[Guderian]

or cut up 3-4 half inch long loops of tubing (1/8 wall tygon/clearflex/etc) and set them up on their sides ( so they would roll if the case were tilted) and set pump on top. cheap, and effective shock absorbers.

Doesn't work too well with thinner (vinyl) tubing, obviously.


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[Graystar]

suspending is ok as long as you dont plan on moving your case to a lan party or anything, if you dont leave a little slack for the pump to move there is a chance it will pull on all the tubing and cause leaks or worse, plus a pump swinging around like a crazy ape can damage your mobo, vid card etc...Actually I found that 1/2" Clearflex tubing is firm enough to hold my D4 pump in place. All the string does is elevate the pump a bit so it's not touching the case.

[WejRepus]

some tubing is firm enough, but from the original post i have no idea if he is using 1/2" tubing with a decent wall that wont wiggle when suspended or small koolance tubing that is as likely to move around in the case as a rabid weasel if suspended

[Kaso]

Meh that all seems far too complex, i just hacked up some Packing foam i had i shoved it in that

[isisfreak]

When I got my ViaAqua I decided it was way too loud for my liking, so I did the silence mod to it. After that, the only noise coming from it was the vibration on the bottom of my case. I decided to use the same method I use on all of my fans, rubber gromets. The pump was epoxied to a piece of acrylic and mounted to the case with four bolts with washers and gromets. And I no longer have any noise from it. Heres some pics (the pump is now painted black):

http://isisfreak.kickassmods.com/Project%20Kickassmods/Pump/3.jpg
http://isisfreak.kickassmods.com/Project%20Kickassmods/Pump/4.jpg
http://isisfreak.kickassmods.com/Project%20Kickassmods/Pump/5.jpg

[dkeller]

Here's what I did for my Eheim 1048 to reduce the noise:

http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/d/dkeller/pump_05.jpg
http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/d/dkeller/pump_08.jpg
http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/d/dkeller/pump_09.jpg

[thorilan]

usualy i use rubber mmountings also but as grey has done i have done suspensions also but they where done with old HD drive cages and 1inch wide rubber bands that secured to top and bottom of case and in 1 server in the sides.

[r4fo]

I went the rubber method.... Using rubber mounting and some "rubber washers" reduced the vibration a lot..