Pump failure LED question
 

I've got a quick question that hopefully someone can help me out with. I've decided I want to install an LED in my case that will light up when my pump is NOT on. A warning light of sorts. I'm using the swiftech pump relay kit wired to my pump, and I was wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to wire this up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...

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of course that LED really just shows that power is getting to the pump. For a real pump failure LED I guess you'd want to wire up something like LMandrake did at overclockers with a Hall sensor:

http://overclockers.com/tips642/

He posts here sometimes so if you go this route he might have some pointers or advice.

I would personally prefer something like a "pump's working fine" LED and a pump failure shutdown circuit. Wouldn't make me feel better to have fried hardware due to pump failure and know it when I came home immediately because the LED on front of case was red and not green :)

pHaestus... Your overclockers link is broken... :(

Could be my firewall at work... because http://www.overclockers.com doesn't work either. :(

works fine from here. Can always try a www. in front:

http://www.overclockers.com/tips642/

Both ways point me to that article though

Not quite that dumb... :mad: thanks anyways...

I actually did that and the site was unavailable at the time of my post. Must have been down for some reason because now it's back.

Don't worry pHaestus... I still lub j00... :dome:

Overclockers is unavailable for me at home if I have IE set to "automatically detect settings" in the connection tab. I am guessing it is something funky with my ISP's proxy they use for caching content. Who knows with the stellar coding at overclockers (I found that link with google; I have given up trying to locate items using their menus).

Good article though... I will have to capture that when I get home so I can keep it. :D

i wouldn't see the problem with shutdownnow killing your machine once it passes a - let's say 50°C - treshold . temps creep up very slow in case of a pump failure.