Aquacomputer High Flow 2 53292 Flow Sensor G1/4 Aqua Water Cooling

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I have power and ground wired from the power supply to the Splitty9 to power the fans, and then ran the PWM and RPM wires to the appropriate Aquaero Fan Channel for control. In this first screen shot you can see all eight fan channels along the top of the right pane. There will only be four of these with a single Aquaero. If you do end up adding another Aquaero or two as a slave unit you will have to add the addition channels in the Controllers tab. The high flow NEXT is more than just a flow sensor. In addition to recording the coolant flow, it also measures its temperature and quality. These features in combination with the stylish RGBpx lighting and the built-in control including OLED display make the high flow NEXT interesting for both professional users and water cooling enthusiasts. Next on the same Aquaero>System Tab there is another section at the bottom called "Expansion Devices", this is where you reflash the Aquaero LT into a slave unit. Press the "Reprogram Device" button and in about a minute it is flashed into a slave unit. When you activate this product you will receive the current version of the aquasuite software including an upgrade service for at least eighteen (18) months. After the expiration of the upgrade service you may use and reinstall the latest version available during the upgrade period without a time limit. In fact, the more pressure sensors you have for a complex loop, the better it will be. This is all the more critical for the LEAKSHIELD UNIVERSAL, where the piece of tubing and air in it is the "reservoir." A steady state of the loop can thus be seen as two competing mechanisms of the coolant pump, typically a centrifugal pump pushing coolant out, driving positive pressure, and the vacuum pump in the LEAKSHIELD driving negative pressure. This is why there is a hard limit on the pump head, with a typical D5 pump being fine, but results sub-optimal with higher-head pumps or multiple pumps in series. I do not believe there is support for multiple LEAKSHIELDs, especially since it is hard to measure where each will be and how they would operate. This is also why any pressure equalization fittings or lids have to be removed—either could add a variable you do not want in the system. Going a step beyond, if there is too much of a vacuum with a water-based coolant, the water may potentially start to boil at operating conditions. Cavitation is likely too, which will hurt the coolant pump impeller and bearing especially. FYI, water boils at ~88 °C at 450 mbar of vacuum, which is well beyond the typical coolant temperatures in a DIY watercooling loop.

I set my temperature range from .4° to 6°, and the power range from 13% to 100% Spend some time adjusting all of these numbers with your system at idle and under max load like RealBench until you get the fan speeds where you want them at both ends of the spectrum. My fans will never get down to 13%, but that got the rest of the curve where I wanted it. The curve starts out flat, but you can drag the slider to change how the curve ramps up and down. If I could get the Farbwerk settings to save, I would use Porfile 2 with all the same settings as the first profile except with the lighting off. Profile 3 is the same as Profile 1 except I shortened the Radiator Fan Curve to 3° max instead of 6° which just makes the fans ramp up faster. Aquabus cables are just four pin fan cables with female connectors on each end. You can easily make your own if you have the tools, connectors, and terminals. This way, even a broken pipe - and the pipes had diameters of 25mm - would not have been a problem. In the end, the project was realized without such a system, but the idea remained in my head. Such a system would have been too big and too expensive for our usual water cooling systems. So I started to develop concepts of such a system which are small and easy to integrate. Today's LEAKSHIELD is the result of a series of ideas and a puzzle that in the end became the finished product. RGBpx LED output can alternatively be configured as aquabus interface for connection to an aquaero 5/6

Once the Firmware is updated you can remove the USB cables, and just use the Aquabus cables for control. It's absolutely fine to leave both Aquabus and the USB cables connected if you would like too, that’s what I do. It makes future firmware updates much easier. In the Data Source box I selected the Water – Air Delta Virtual Temperature Sensor that was set up previously. In the Outputs box outlined in red on the right side I added all four fan channels that control the radiator fans as well as the one fan in the HDD cage on channel 7. I might move that channel 7 onto its own controller later, but for now this will work fine. In addition, the aqua computer OCTO provides two RGBpx outputs for digitally controllable LEDsready. These can control up to 180 LEDs with many effects. Each LED can be configured individually in color and brightness. In addition to the proprietary RGBpx LED products from aqua computer, RGB products from other manufacturers can also be connected to the OCTO fan controller using an optionally available adapter . There is also an input for a flow sensor. This means that the OCTO is in good hands even in a water-cooled system. The eight 4-pin PWM fan connections of the aqua computer OCTO fan controller can be configured individually. Thanks to the high output power of 25 watts per channel, it is also possible to connect several fans to an output of the OCTO using suitable splitters. Overall, the OCTO can deliver up to 100 watts of total power. The four inputs for temperature sensors also enable temperature-controlled operation of the fans. Monitor mode is more passive, acting purely as a means to detect any leaks as a result of pressure changes. The LEDs turn green, and you can use this mode with a much lower negative pressure of ~50 mbar vacuum. The third mode is Release, which, as we saw before, simply vents air into the system after having turned off the vacuum pump and associated valve. If an alarm triggers, and believe me it will, the default setting has the LEDs light up an aggressive red along with a buzzer alarm from the unit coupled with any system-specific shutdown actions if programmed with the optional accessory cable. Unfortunately, this is where things dropped from the high I was operating in during testing. I was working with older firmware most of the time, but using the LEAKSHIELD without having configured the alarm settings was a mistake I would not want you to make. The pressure gauge is far too sensitive otherwise, with even the valves in the LEAKSHIELD alone not 100% leak-proof to the sensitivity of the thing. Once configured to ignore "minor" leaks, you need to really put some effort into identifying the associated pressure and flow-rate changes, after which things do get much better.

Besides being a fully autonomous USB fan controller, the QUADRO can also be used as an aquabus extension to an aquaero 5 or aquaero 6. In this configuration, the four fan channels of the QUADRO can be controlled by the aquaero, temperature sensor inputs and flow sensor input are transmitted to the aquaero. A maximum of two QUADRO controllers can be connected to an aquaero simultaneously. The four fan channels of the QUADRO can be configured independently, the high maximum power output of 25 watts per channel allows for connecting multiple fans to each output of the QUADRO using suitable splitters. In addition to setting fan speed manually, fan speed can also be controlled by temperature. In temperature controlled mode, set point controllers as well as curve controllers are available. If the corresponding temperature falls below the set limit, connected fans can either be switched off or be kept running at an adjustable minimum speed. For secure fan start-up, an intelligent start boost with speed signal monitoring can be configured for each fan channel.

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I actually save frequently to both Profile 1 and Profile 2. Profile 1 is my main everyday profile, I keep Profile 2 the same in case I want to try something a little different than what is on Profile 1, and I can do that without messing up Profile 1. I would like to say one more word: the only thing I am sorry about today is the fact that we have been producing water cooling systems for 20 years and this product is only coming to the market today. It would have helped so many customers and brought water cooling into completely different areas. Nevertheless, I am of course pleased that we are taking an important step into the future today! In the right red box you can see I added Ambient Top to the end of the label for the ambient sensor located on the top of one of the top radiators. Also there is a second ambient sensor located in front of the left front radiator.

Powerful fan control from aqua computer with numerous connection options and extensive software control. The OCTO fan controller brings eight channels for PWM fans, with up to 25 watts of power per channel. In addition, two outputs for RGBpx elements as well as four inputs for temperature sensors and one input for a flow sensor are provided. There is also a slot for RGBpx LED strips from aqua computer , which can be used to illuminate and control up to 64 LEDs. Alternatively, this port can also be used to connect the D5 NEXT via the aquabus interface to the aquaero 5 or aquaero 6 controllers. The Aquaero fan controllers are in my opinion the very best at controlling and monitoring your fans, pumps, and other accessories related to water or even air cooled PCs. The accompanying Aquasuite software is truly incredible and very powerful software! However, it can be a little intimidating if you have never used it before, and there is definitely a learning curve involved.Set Point controllers can adjust power to keep the temperature of the assigned data source constantly equal to the target value if possible. Two point controllers can switch assigned outputs on and off when the temperature reading of the data source rises above or falls below predefined values. There are two water temperature sensors one in a front radiator and one in a top radiator. It looks like the last two letters got erased on sensor 3 in this screen shot. The rest of the sensors you see there are default sensors. The fan amplifiers can get warm when using voltage controlled fans under heavy load. I am going to skip over the Controller tab here to start with because you have to set up all the fans properly before we can set up any Controllers. Before we move on, I had asked Aqua Computer what led to the development of the LEAKSHIELD and got a reply directly from the company's CEO. Here is the quote below: "The idea for LEAKSHIELD was born several years ago. At that time, we developed and built cooling systems for data centers used by banks. The requirements for operational reliability are extremely high and the customer expressed the wish to have all pipes double-walled.

I’ve really only ever used the Curve Controllers so that’s the only one I’ll be showing here. I have seen the other controllers used when for example if you want your fans to completely shut off under light load, or have your fans ramp up and down to keep your coolant between certain temperatures. It is not always easy to visualize what to do by merely reading instructions. So my goal here is to use many screen shots, and walk you through how I set up my two Aquaeros and the Aquasuite software on this particular build. I also use the Start Boost feature, this just turns the fans on max speed for the time specified which is set for 5 seconds here, before they drop down to the controlled speed. If no RGBpx products are connected to the pump, the RGBpx header can be configured as an aquabus interface. In this configuration, the pump can be connected to an aquaero 5 or aquaero 6 as an aquabus expansion device, giving the aquaero control of pump and fan output settings. Additionally, coolant temperature and flow rate are transmitted to the connected aquaero. A maximum of two D5 NEXT pumps can be connected to an aquaero simultaneously. For the second Curve Controller I’m using my Software Sensor of the SSD temperature as the Data Source, notice how in this screen shot it shows 50°? That shows that my HWiNFO program was off when I took that screen shot. I named it SSD Fan Curve, and the Output is for Fan Channel 6 which only controls the 40mm fans in the SSD hot swap bay.

The D5 NEXT has an integrated OLED display that shows, among other things, the current flow rate and temperature, via the integrated temperature sensoris read out. Integrated switches also allow configuration directly on the pump itself, without additional control software or a controller. An integrated RGB LED strip also provides atmospheric lighting. Anyone who still wants to control and configure the pump via the sophisticated aquatune software can connect it to the motherboard via a USB 2.0 port. In addition, firmware updates are also recorded. Power is supplied via a SATA connection. I actually got started with my Aquaero by reading a guide written by Namron, a member here on OCN. He passed away several years ago, and all of the links to his guide are broken or missing. It was getting rather dated at this point, and was based on the Aquaero 5. I was originally making this guide for my build log The Big Red "Devastator", but I thought more people would be able to find it if I made a separate thread. So I'm posting it in it's own thread, and on my build log.