Reservoir Help

[TheIcedCanadian]

Hi,

I need help on how to get a three-reservoir setup going. I don't currently have the parts, but plan on including it on a watercooling loop i might do is the near future.

 

I was wondering how I could get three reservoirs all working and looks like this:

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Here is what I have a rough idea of though I don't know how the water is going to flow in/through it.

 

This is a picture of what I got the idea off of: - here is the original video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHQvaej5SKA&index=11&list=UUXajVL9igC2Enc4lC41WlbA

 

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Thanks in advance

 

 

[Altecice]

seems quite simple. use normal compression barbs out of the res and attach a 45/90 degree angle compression fitting. EK sell all this sort of stuff 

[TheIcedCanadian]

seems quite simple. use normal compression barbs out of the res and attach a 45/90 degree angle compression fitting. EK sell all this sort of stuff 

Will the water flow in and out through the loop as normal? If I add this on, how many pumps will I need?

[DirkW]

Will the water flow in and out through the loop as normal? If I add this on, how many pumps will I need?

 

Depends. In the example (photos) you provided, yes, perfectly normal flow - and one pump should be enough, as more res in parallel don't add flow resistance. The drawing of the setup however, is incomplete, to say the least.

 

This is more what it appears to be built (sorry for the crude quick drawing):

 

Not that this type of loop/gimmick makes much sense to me...

[TheIcedCanadian]

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[TheIcedCanadian]

 

Depends. In the example (photos) you provided, yes, perfectly normal flow - and one pump should be enough, as more res in parallel don't add flow resistance. The drawing of the setup however, is incomplete, to say the least.

 

This is more what it appears to be built (sorry for the crude quick drawing):

 

Not that this type of loop/gimmick makes much sense to me...

 

It is mainly for looks

Would this also work? - srry for bad pics - never used sketchup or any alike program before

[DirkW]

It is mainly for looks

Would this also work? - srry for bad pics - never used sketchup or any alike program before

Should work... since equal flow and pressure don't matter as much for reservoirs, as for let's say parallel GPU setups.

[FluffyNuggets]

Only problem I'd see doing it that way is if any water would reach the last reservoir since it would probably mostly fill the first and slightly fill the second. I've never done it but it makes sense that the last reservoir would dry up. Only way I think to solve the issue is to split the loop into 3 streams before hitting the reservoirs that way equal amounts of liquid reaches each reservoir. 

[TheIcedCanadian]

Only problem I'd see doing it that way is if any water would reach the last reservoir since it would probably mostly fill the first and slightly fill the second. I've never done it but it makes sense that the last reservoir would dry up. Only way I think to solve the issue is to split the loop into 3 streams before hitting the reservoirs that way equal amounts of liquid reaches each reservoir. 

 

But if I put enough coolant in the system to fill the three reservoirs, this shouldn't happen, right?

[FluffyNuggets]

But if I put enough coolant in the system to fill the three reservoirs, this shouldn't happen, right?

Well the last reservoir in still gonna drain so unless you're getting some liquid in it then it's gonna run dry. I'm just not sure there's gonna be enough fluid pushing through to make it past the second reservoir. Again, I've never done it so I may be completely wrong but that's just how I see it going. Water rushes into a reservoir pretty fast with nothing really stopping it so who knows how much would even make it to the last reservoir. Typically with dual reservoirs those are on their own dedicated loop so you wouldn't have those concerns since each has it's own source to fill it. Only other thing I could think would happen is the first 2 will be completely full and and the last will just pick up whatever is left. Maybe that's how it will work lol!