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Originally Posted by pHaestus
I'd rather not turn this into some pissing match between this site and WCP please.
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Certainly not
my intention - just trying to understand what they're up to as this might be the "key" to what is often called "German-style" watercooling. Of course, if it turns out that they're doing something questionable, IMHO, it wouldn't hurt to shine some "light of day" on it for everyone. They might even "fix" it, which would be of real benefit to those of us without access to, for instance, nexXxos blocks.
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I can certainly appreciate the reasoning behind "picking a test setup and method and sticking with it" if you have a lot of data over a long time.
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But it looks like their original rationale for using that particular setup (E1046, 6 or 8mm ID tubing, very restrictive radiator) is being "overtaken by events", as the newspaper folks say. If their target market is moving to 10mm ID tubing, and much less restrictive radiators, and
possibly more powerful pumps (the HPPS, for instance, is
quieter than the 1046, but still has more pressure), then, at least eventually, they're going to need to change that rig. It may even make sense to control coolant temperature and use a more powerful pump throttled down to whatever pressure/flow (or set of pressure/flows) so they have numbers to satisfy both readers using the old (restrictive system) and those using the newer (less restrictive) ones. .
Hmmm.... sounds.... sort'a familiar... ?
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I can go lower but I think that 0.5GPM is the bottom of the 1% accuracy range of my GPI flowmeter.
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Oh - sorry to have been asking for something difficult. Does it go to 5%, 10% or all-to-h*ll? Even at 10% it would be somewhat interesting - not to put on a graph, but as a side-note kind of thing.
Bob