spootey pump shakes monitor!

[demon-eater]

okay im still playing around with my water cooling but i finally put it into the case that im going to use with it and my backup crap, now i fired it up and what i thought was going to happen happened my monitor shakes because of the pump.. how do i get rid of this?? a piece of lead on the inside of my case or just move my case far enough away from my monitor when i finally set it up the way i want it with my "good" stuff in it?? i think i could move it far enough away from my monitor but id still like to beable to reach the cd bay without having to get out of my seat, that would be work.

 

[Hoot]

Separation is the best solution. If I put my full tower next to my monitor, I get the same effect. That's why it's down on the floor where it belongs. it's also cooler on the floor.

Hoot

 

[muddocktor]

As Hoot says, separation is the key. I have my watercooled case about 2 feet from my monitor and I'm having no problems with interference on my monitor.

 

[Colin]

Another thing to try is floating the ground for the pump.

 

[tft]

I think the same thing is happening to my monitor. But, on yours, does the whole monitor shake, or does it just seem like the picture is a bit shakey? For a while, I thought I had a bad monitor, but this might be the problem.

 

[SNIPER1M]

What kind of pump do you have?

 

[tft]

One that I bought at a local aquarium, its called a Power Pro 4

 

[demon-eater]

thanks guys thats what i will probably end up doing like i said moving it away from my monitor, btw i have a via aqua sumthin that does 512gph but i need it for my huuuuge heater core i have its from a 92ish bmw and it fits 3 80mm fans on each side, in fact it has slots like it was almost designed for them to be mounted by threes on both sides!!

ahh the many joys of ebay shopping...

 

[SNIPER1M]

These pumps for the most part are large electromagnets, Shielding is in order if you place your monitor close by. One thing I noticed about you water-cooler guys is your preoccupation gph. If you got a question about "overclocked aquariums" I'm the guy to ask. Your processor wouldn't notice a temp change if 10 gph or 500gph, its head that is important. Aquarium pumps are not pressure pumps by their design and head is their equivalent to pressure. It measures how high it can pump water at a given flow through a given diameter pipe. A poor 512 gph may not even pump higher than 36" if the "pipe" widens to 1", such as through a radiator.

 

[Tecumseh]

For low freq as in AC there is no way you can practically
shield the monitor. If you could find a sheet of mumetal
in a junk yard that COULD help, but the best thing you
can do is separation. The old HP printers with the "brick"
power supplies did the same thing.

"Ya gotta keep 'em separated."

 

[ocean]

As ashort term solution you may just try to change the orientation of the pump relative to the monitor. I turned mine 90degrees and the problem diminished greatly. Separation is the best though