Draining & flushing a small form factor waterloop
On 2/23/2019 at 5:19 AM, Insorior said:
That should work, as Benjeh stated, the drain should be at the lowest point in your loop. Using a 4 way would work much the same as long as you plug off the unused port For the ball valve, take a look at the Phanteks offering - it's pretty sweet.
One note regarding draining,,, no matter how well you design it into your loop, some coolant will remain in the system. You'll end up tilting, shaking and possibly swearing to get most of it out which should be easier in a small factor build (mine is quite heavy being housed in a Phanteks Luxe with 2 radiator (480mm 420mm & 240mm), 2 GPU blocks, a CPU block and a res/pump combo). I screw in a piece of soft tube to the top of my reservoir and use a compressor's regulated spray gun outlet (set to a relatively low pressure) to push out the stubborn coolant via the drain port (which again is connected via soft tubing into a 5lt bottle sitting in a bucket to reduce the risk of a mess/spill).
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