Trouble filling loop :(

[Jakeltons]

Hello,

 

I’m currently working on my first custom loop and I’m having a lot of difficulty filling the loop. As seen in the linked video, the water level in the reservoir will not drop even though the loop clearly isn’t full, look at the top tube and you’ll see what I mean. When I first filled the reservoir and turned on the pump the water level dropped like expected. The second time did nothing to drop the levels. Can someone please tell me what’s wrong? This is getting frustrating

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[Jakeltons]

I’ve also thought of filling it from the top radiator instead since that’s the highest point of the loop

[Jakeltons]

Top radiator, not reservoir, my bad!

[Foul]

Dont know anything about the Topic.

Just a heads up.

The Video is just Audio

[Jakeltons]

9 minutes ago, Foul said:

Dont know anything about the Topic.

Just a heads up.

The Video is just Audio

Crap idk why it did that :\

[Jakeltons]

Hello,

 

I’m currently working on my first custom loop and I’m having a lot of difficulty filling the loop. As seen in the linked video, the water level in the reservoir will not drop even though the loop clearly isn’t full, look at the top tube and you’ll see what I mean.  

When I first filled the reservoir and turned on the pump the water level dropped like expected. The second time did nothing to drop the levels. Can someone please tell me what’s wrong? This is getting frustrating  This is a double post since I can’t figure out how to delete the first thread I made. 

[W-L]

2 minutes ago, Jakeltons said:

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There is trapped air in the loop you need to move the system around to try and get the pocket back around to the res. 

[Jakeltons]

12 minutes ago, W-L said:

There is trapped air in the loop you need to move the system around to try and get the pocket back around to the res. 

Thank you I’ll try that 

[Enderman]

Is your pump running at full speed?

The flow rate looks very low.

If it was running at full speed it would be able to push almost all of the air out easily.

[Jakeltons]

9 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Is your pump running at full speed?

The flow rate looks very low.

If it was running at full speed it would be able to push almost all of the air out easily.

The pump is powered by a molex so I’d assume it’s at full speed. There is a speed switch on the bottom of the pump but the pump cover on the pump res combo makes it inaccessible 

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, Jakeltons said:

The pump is powered by a molex so I’d assume it’s at full speed. There is a speed switch on the bottom of the pump but the pump cover on the pump res combo makes it inaccessible 

Well that's a problem..........

Does it not have any holes on the bottom for access? Maybe you mounted it wrong?

[Jakeltons]

1 hour ago, Enderman said:

Well that's a problem..........

Does it not have any holes on the bottom for access? Maybe you mounted it wrong?

There is a hole on the bottom it’s just that there’s this piece showing off the logo, it can be removed but I don’t think I can without draining the system and taking the pump off the reservoir, pretty inconvenient if you think about it lol. 

 

So I found a way to get to the speed switch and I can confirm it’s running at full speed

[Enderman]

Just now, Jakeltons said:

So I found a way to get to the speed switch and I can confirm it’s running at full speed

Ok well that sucks...

I guess your only option is to close the reservoir and tilt the PC case around until the water starts flowing well.

[Jakeltons]

27 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Ok well that sucks...

I guess your only option is to close the reservoir and tilt the PC case around until the water starts flowing well.

I think I’ve gotten it mostly fixed and I don’t see any air bubbles in the tubing and water blocks but I don’t know about my radiators, especially the top. I can’t tell if they’re full or not or if they have a lot of trapped air. Are tiny little micro bubbles normal to see in the tubing? 

[Enderman]

13 minutes ago, Jakeltons said:

I think I’ve gotten it mostly fixed and I don’t see any air bubbles in the tubing and water blocks but I don’t know about my radiators, especially the top. I can’t tell if they’re full or not or if they have a lot of trapped air. Are tiny little micro bubbles normal to see in the tubing? 

Yeah those should go away in a few days or weeks.