LED PUMP?

Pseudobob · October 23, 2016

Hi, I was wondering if there was a pwm pump with built-in led or attachment. My over all goal is to use an rgb led as a status indicator with my reservoir. I'm asking for an led pump because I would like the light to change as demand is put on the pump something like light load = blue, mild or normal load = green, heavy load = red. The led should piggyback off the connector to the motherboard, right? I don't know if any of this makes sense. I'll use the "This is my first time attempting a water cooling build" and apologize now if this has already been answered or this is the wrong section to post in.

JHY · October 23, 2016

Corsair, and NZXT have aio cooler with rgb coolers.

Enderman · October 23, 2016

You can use one of these and stick an RGB led in it:

https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-plug-g1-4-plexi-led-5mm

Or you can just stick an LED strip behind the reservoir which is what most people do.

atomicus · October 23, 2016

Surely with that EK Plug you're always going to have a wire sticking out the top of your res?

OP, I'm not sure how that 'status indicator' would work exactly, or what function it actually serves. Are you worried your pump will not be up to the task? If you have a PWM pump it will look after itself anyway, and most people with Vario pumps just find a speed that suits them, set it and forget it. So I'm a bit unclear why you feel you need this 'status' light, other than it just being a cool thing. Your pump generally is going to be just fine... simply monitor temps and flow rate if you must (not necessary though). I also don't know what would constitute a light/mild/normal/heavy load on a pump... and how would that be known? If it's a PWM pump, as mentioned, it sorts itself out... if a Vario pump the speed is set, so what determines the 'load' exactly? And even if you knew this information, what would you do with it? Simply turn the speed up or down (if it's a Vario)? Most people don't need to do this once everything is running as it should, and there would be other more obvious indicators that necessitated such an action (temps sky rocketing for example). Perhaps I'm not understanding this correctly, but to my mind this all sounds a bit unnecessary and over complicated.