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Possible obvious reservoir question
- Thread starter Pecos
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You need some airspace as expansion room for your liquid. Water expands when it warms up, and a completely filled (cold) reservoir would overflow/burst when your system warms up. Reverse problem with a hermetically sealed and hot filled system, you're creating a vacuum when cooling, increasing cavitation or inviting leaks (most seals only like one direction, pressure or vacuum). So I'd leave about 10 % of your systems capacity in airspace to be on the save side.
If you have a problem with too much air entraining you could always fill the airspace with a ballon. All you need is something that can expand or compress, doesn't say anyway it has to be able to mix with the water.
If you have a problem with too much air entraining you could always fill the airspace with a ballon. All you need is something that can expand or compress, doesn't say anyway it has to be able to mix with the water.
Given that explanation, a t-line system would explode then also! 
I don't think that the temperature change in the coolant is enough to cause any real expansion that the elastisticity of the Tygon can't handle.
I think this res is just too small and/or designed improperly for the the flow rate of this pump. I had thrown a couple of extra barbs into a tennis ball tube that I had. The barbs were mounted on the side of the tube with one near the bottom and the other 2/3's of the way up the tube. I attached the return hose to the upper barb and the pump fill hose to the bottom. It bled the system of air in just a few minutes. I don't trust that thing for full time usage though.
I actually I have a smaller res from DD that I may put in to separtate the return line from the pump fill line which *should* alleviate my problem. Although dual Waterplants would look hella cool...
I don't think that the temperature change in the coolant is enough to cause any real expansion that the elastisticity of the Tygon can't handle.I think this res is just too small and/or designed improperly for the the flow rate of this pump. I had thrown a couple of extra barbs into a tennis ball tube that I had. The barbs were mounted on the side of the tube with one near the bottom and the other 2/3's of the way up the tube. I attached the return hose to the upper barb and the pump fill hose to the bottom. It bled the system of air in just a few minutes. I don't trust that thing for full time usage though.
I actually I have a smaller res from DD that I may put in to separtate the return line from the pump fill line which *should* alleviate my problem. Although dual Waterplants would look hella cool...
I cleared the problem. I bump started the pump with my server box power and forced the bubbles through the lines into the res. I then filled the res completely and cinched everything up. Now there's no bubbles in the thing. So much for the coolness factor of the vortex in the res!
I still think a dual cylinder res would look pretty sweet -- one res for the return and the other for the pump fill. Maybe I'll try it someday, who knows.
I still think a dual cylinder res would look pretty sweet -- one res for the return and the other for the pump fill. Maybe I'll try it someday, who knows.