Edd
15th May 2004, 21:51
I purchased my watercooling kit from WizD just before Christmas 03 and have been thrilled with it since. The only thing missing from my setup was a secure mounting method for my pump.
I planned on buying the mounting screws, but that would have involved drilling (more) holes in my lovely Lian Li PC-70.
Luckily, Pug had a solution - a velcro-mounting system.
The product is a simple but perfect solution to the problem of securing the pump.
Firstly, it's small enough to be mailed in an envelope, and requires no preperatory work on your case. No drilling required - heck my system was turned on whilst I did it :D
Secondly the pad is (I would assume) large enough for even the biggest Eheim pump. I've got their smallest model, and it sits on the pad with PLENTY of space to spare.
The only drawback I can see with this is that, due to a fair bit of sticky surface still remaining - you get lots of dust attached to it.
However that's more down to how well your case filters it out (mine = terribly), and you can always spend a bit more time and cut out some of the protective material that comes with the pads to place back on once you've got the pump in place.
The installation is simple - you just lift up the pump (or move it aside, all depending on your configuration), peel off the protective material on one side of the pad and stick it onto the case!
I made sure to push down on it fairly hard to make sure it was firmly stuck, but I don't think it needed it. Then just take the covering off the other side of the pad and place the pump onto it. Push down on the pump to ensure it's firmly stuck ... and that's about it!
For those worried about vibration from the pump - don't. The velcro stopped all pump vibration being transferred to the case, as far as I could tell. This may not be the case for larger pumps however.
So far the velcro has been installed for about 4-5 weeks and I haven't had a problem. The case has been moved around up and down several flights of stairs, and driven about 300 miles - all whilst full of water. It's also been tipped onto its back for several hours and no pump slippage has occurred.
All in all I'd say this is a perfect solution for mounting a pump to the case, and unless you REALLY want to ensure no vibrations, then it makes more sense to go with this than the mounting screws - also bypasses drilling holes in the case (although I know nobody around here is too fazed by that! ;))
Pictures coming shortly.
[EDIT]
Hmmm, my PC is being extremely lame and refuses to recognise my camera :(. I think it's something to do with the Blackbox shell for some reason :rant:
I planned on buying the mounting screws, but that would have involved drilling (more) holes in my lovely Lian Li PC-70.
Luckily, Pug had a solution - a velcro-mounting system.
The product is a simple but perfect solution to the problem of securing the pump.
Firstly, it's small enough to be mailed in an envelope, and requires no preperatory work on your case. No drilling required - heck my system was turned on whilst I did it :D
Secondly the pad is (I would assume) large enough for even the biggest Eheim pump. I've got their smallest model, and it sits on the pad with PLENTY of space to spare.
The only drawback I can see with this is that, due to a fair bit of sticky surface still remaining - you get lots of dust attached to it.
However that's more down to how well your case filters it out (mine = terribly), and you can always spend a bit more time and cut out some of the protective material that comes with the pads to place back on once you've got the pump in place.
The installation is simple - you just lift up the pump (or move it aside, all depending on your configuration), peel off the protective material on one side of the pad and stick it onto the case!
I made sure to push down on it fairly hard to make sure it was firmly stuck, but I don't think it needed it. Then just take the covering off the other side of the pad and place the pump onto it. Push down on the pump to ensure it's firmly stuck ... and that's about it!
For those worried about vibration from the pump - don't. The velcro stopped all pump vibration being transferred to the case, as far as I could tell. This may not be the case for larger pumps however.
So far the velcro has been installed for about 4-5 weeks and I haven't had a problem. The case has been moved around up and down several flights of stairs, and driven about 300 miles - all whilst full of water. It's also been tipped onto its back for several hours and no pump slippage has occurred.
All in all I'd say this is a perfect solution for mounting a pump to the case, and unless you REALLY want to ensure no vibrations, then it makes more sense to go with this than the mounting screws - also bypasses drilling holes in the case (although I know nobody around here is too fazed by that! ;))
Pictures coming shortly.
[EDIT]
Hmmm, my PC is being extremely lame and refuses to recognise my camera :(. I think it's something to do with the Blackbox shell for some reason :rant: