Can’t seem to drain EKWB FLT res/pump

[vrod]

Hi all,

 

doing my first hard tubing

loop and decided to run pure distilled water for a leak test. Leak test ran fine and now I wanna get the distilled water out so I can put in the real coolant. Issue is though, I cannot seem to drain the loop somehow..

 

Case is a phanteks evolv x and I am using a Kinetic flt 120mm res/pump combo which sits in the bottom front. Only water that came out was from the res itself, from the loop, nothing is coming out.

 

looked at the manual but there’s no notes about draining. Used to run separate res and pump before, draining was not an issue there. Would anyone have an idea, perhaps I overlooked something? Image attached.

 

Thanks!

Chris

[For Science!]

Likely to be air locked or lack of a proper flow pattern, photo of overall loop would be helpful, the drain is likely just in a bad place. Any U shaped bends will not drain by gravity

[W-L]

8 minutes ago, vrod said:

Hi all,

 

doing my first hard tubing

loop and decided to run pure distilled water for a leak test. Leak test ran fine and now I wanna get the distilled water out so I can put in the real coolant. Issue is though, I cannot seem to drain the loop somehow..

 

Case is a phanteks evolv x and I am using a Kinetic flt 120mm res/pump combo which sits in the bottom front. Only water that came out was from the res itself, from the loop, nothing is coming out.

 

looked at the manual but there’s no notes about draining. Used to run separate res and pump before, draining was not an issue there. Would anyone have an idea, perhaps I overlooked something? Image attached.

 

Thanks!

Chris

 

There will always be a small amount due to the channeling since it's essentially a trap for water as you can see in the photo. It's a non consequential amount of water and won't be an issue when adding in coolant. if it's a concentrate just mix the concentrate with what I would guess at most being 30mL less of distilled. 

[vrod]

Here’s the pics. For whatever reason I confused the inlet/outlet so I have to swap those two. Already had the liquid in, so just decided to do the leak test for the “other”.

[-rascal-]

17 hours ago, vrod said:

Here’s the pics. For whatever reason I confused the inlet/outlet so I have to swap those two. Already had the liquid in, so just decided to do the leak test for the “other”.

 

You are going to need to open up a second opening for the air circulate into the loop -- ideally a high point in the loop (or a second port on the res).

Usually, open up the "fill" port, and the "Drain" port.

There is a vacuum in the loop, and you need a second opening to "relieve" the vacuum.

Like plugging one end of a drinking straw with your finger.