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Heya Tom's!
I made a couple stupid errors while putting together my loop, and am now worried about my pump. My watercooling setup consists of a number of things, but the important part is that it only runs on the CPU, and is powered by an Apogee Drive II. The very important part is this:
When putting it together, I made a noob mistake and forgot to factor in the fact that the socket on the z77e-itx is very close to the PCI slot. I get everything installed, go to put in the graphics card, and what do you know, the pci slot is blocked. After cursing for a while, I undo a few hours of work, drain the loop, and re-tube it with the apogee turned ninety degrees.
After re-tubing, I fill the loop again, but make another idiot mistake, and don't fill the slightly curved tube leading up to the pump. I cycle the power supply and it takes about three seconds before I realize the pump is running dry and frantically turn it off.
After this point, I was very worried about it; the pump would struggle to start, and one time didn't start at all. Now that the system is back together, I think that it's okay, because it starts reliably in about three seconds when the system gets powered, which I believe is just it getting power. However, it's emitting a very high-pitched, very annoying whine.
Have I damaged my pump by letting it run for three seconds with no water? I know it's very bad to do, but I don't know if it caused a problem.
Does anyone have experience with this pump? Is the whine normal, or something I need to address? I don't think it was there before my error, so is it a sign of damage? If not, can I fix it?
If the answers to any of the above are bad, should / can I return the pump, do you think?
I made a couple stupid errors while putting together my loop, and am now worried about my pump. My watercooling setup consists of a number of things, but the important part is that it only runs on the CPU, and is powered by an Apogee Drive II. The very important part is this:
When putting it together, I made a noob mistake and forgot to factor in the fact that the socket on the z77e-itx is very close to the PCI slot. I get everything installed, go to put in the graphics card, and what do you know, the pci slot is blocked. After cursing for a while, I undo a few hours of work, drain the loop, and re-tube it with the apogee turned ninety degrees.
After re-tubing, I fill the loop again, but make another idiot mistake, and don't fill the slightly curved tube leading up to the pump. I cycle the power supply and it takes about three seconds before I realize the pump is running dry and frantically turn it off.
After this point, I was very worried about it; the pump would struggle to start, and one time didn't start at all. Now that the system is back together, I think that it's okay, because it starts reliably in about three seconds when the system gets powered, which I believe is just it getting power. However, it's emitting a very high-pitched, very annoying whine.
Have I damaged my pump by letting it run for three seconds with no water? I know it's very bad to do, but I don't know if it caused a problem.
Does anyone have experience with this pump? Is the whine normal, or something I need to address? I don't think it was there before my error, so is it a sign of damage? If not, can I fix it?
If the answers to any of the above are bad, should / can I return the pump, do you think?
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