Aquacomputer High Flow 2 53292 Flow Sensor G1/4 Aqua Water Cooling

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In the right red box you can see I added Ambient Top to the end of the label for the ambient sensor located on the top of one of the top radiators. Also there is a second ambient sensor located in front of the left front radiator.

The Aquasuite software can be used in a fairly simple setup, all the way to very complex builds. I’ve been using Aquasuite for over six years now, but I still do not use all the aspects of the software, so I will not be to covering those areas that I don’t use myself. Now that the Aquasuite software is installed, all the firmware is updated, and all the MPS devices are set up, it’s time to setup the temperature sensors, fans, and make some Curve Controllers which all happens in the Aquaero tab. The OCTO is connected via USB 2.0 to the mainboard and 4-pin Molex to the power supply. The connected fans and other elements are controlled using aquasuite software. This makes it easy and convenient to set up, control, monitor and visualize all processes and sensor data. The high resolution OLED display combined with mechanical buttons underneath and a touch slider on the bottom side allow can be used to configure and adjust the pump without using the PC. As can be expected from an Aqua Computer product, the pump also features an USB interface for convenient configuration and monitoring using the aquasuite software. Additionally, current data such as temperatures, processor usage etc. can be transmitted from the PC to the pump via USB, allowing them to be used for pump control, fan output or RGBpx illumination.

The Aquaeros all come with four channels of fan control. Since I have two Aquaeros I have a total of eight fan channels. I have six radiators in total, 4 x 560, and 2 x 280 with a total of 30 140mm fans. I also have one 120mm fan in the HDD cage, and one 120mm fan in the rear of the case for exhaust. For easy installation, the controller unit can easily be detached from the motor unit. This is immensely convenient for installation - all cables can remain plugged in to the controller unit while the motor unit is being installed into a pump top/cover or reservoir.

The Aquaero fan controllers are in my opinion the very best at controlling and monitoring your fans, pumps, and other accessories related to water or even air cooled PCs. The accompanying Aquasuite software is truly incredible and very powerful software! However, it can be a little intimidating if you have never used it before, and there is definitely a learning curve involved. The high flow NEXT can be configured conveniently and directly on the device via the built-in OLED display and the three buttons. The display shows the desired measurements as values or graphics. All settings can be freely selected, saved and displayed. When you activate this product you will receive the current version of the aquasuite software including an upgrade service for at least six (6) months. After the expiration of the upgrade service you may use and reinstall the latest version available during the upgrade period without a time limit. I am going to skip over the Controller tab here to start with because you have to set up all the fans properly before we can set up any Controllers.This way, even a broken pipe - and the pipes had diameters of 25mm - would not have been a problem. In the end, the project was realized without such a system, but the idea remained in my head. Such a system would have been too big and too expensive for our usual water cooling systems. So I started to develop concepts of such a system which are small and easy to integrate. Today's LEAKSHIELD is the result of a series of ideas and a puzzle that in the end became the finished product. Power everything down again; you can disconnect the USB cable as it is unusable. Connect the Aquabus high port to a Hubby7 or the Aquabus high port on the Aquaero XT. Then you can connect your wiring for the extra fan channels to the Aquaero LT. You can actually add a third Aquaero for up to 12 channels of control if you need more channels. There is an OCN Aquaero Owners Club if you haven't already seen it. None of the links on the OP work anymore, and if I posted it there it would just get lost. Aquabus cables are just four pin fan cables with female connectors on each end. You can easily make your own if you have the tools, connectors, and terminals.

It is not always easy to visualize what to do by merely reading instructions. So my goal here is to use many screen shots, and walk you through how I set up my two Aquaeros and the Aquasuite software on this particular build. If you are adding an Aquaero LT to have four more fan control channels, you will need to flash the Aquaero LT into a slave unit to work off of the main Aquaero XT. Nothing can be connected to the Aquaero LT unit except for the five pin USB cable.The eight 4-pin PWM fan connections of the aqua computer OCTO fan controller can be configured individually. Thanks to the high output power of 25 watts per channel, it is also possible to connect several fans to an output of the OCTO using suitable splitters. Overall, the OCTO can deliver up to 100 watts of total power. The four inputs for temperature sensors also enable temperature-controlled operation of the fans. In fact, the more pressure sensors you have for a complex loop, the better it will be. This is all the more critical for the LEAKSHIELD UNIVERSAL, where the piece of tubing and air in it is the "reservoir." A steady state of the loop can thus be seen as two competing mechanisms of the coolant pump, typically a centrifugal pump pushing coolant out, driving positive pressure, and the vacuum pump in the LEAKSHIELD driving negative pressure. This is why there is a hard limit on the pump head, with a typical D5 pump being fine, but results sub-optimal with higher-head pumps or multiple pumps in series. I do not believe there is support for multiple LEAKSHIELDs, especially since it is hard to measure where each will be and how they would operate. This is also why any pressure equalization fittings or lids have to be removed—either could add a variable you do not want in the system. Going a step beyond, if there is too much of a vacuum with a water-based coolant, the water may potentially start to boil at operating conditions. Cavitation is likely too, which will hurt the coolant pump impeller and bearing especially. FYI, water boils at ~88 °C at 450 mbar of vacuum, which is well beyond the typical coolant temperatures in a DIY watercooling loop. I also use the Start Boost feature, this just turns the fans on max speed for the time specified which is set for 5 seconds here, before they drop down to the controlled speed. Monitor mode is more passive, acting purely as a means to detect any leaks as a result of pressure changes. The LEDs turn green, and you can use this mode with a much lower negative pressure of ~50 mbar vacuum. The third mode is Release, which, as we saw before, simply vents air into the system after having turned off the vacuum pump and associated valve. If an alarm triggers, and believe me it will, the default setting has the LEDs light up an aggressive red along with a buzzer alarm from the unit coupled with any system-specific shutdown actions if programmed with the optional accessory cable. Unfortunately, this is where things dropped from the high I was operating in during testing. I was working with older firmware most of the time, but using the LEAKSHIELD without having configured the alarm settings was a mistake I would not want you to make. The pressure gauge is far too sensitive otherwise, with even the valves in the LEAKSHIELD alone not 100% leak-proof to the sensitivity of the thing. Once configured to ignore "minor" leaks, you need to really put some effort into identifying the associated pressure and flow-rate changes, after which things do get much better.