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Originally Posted by lolito_fr
Cathar is your man. Quite a few threads about pump heat around, maybe try a search?
How many watts is the Lowes pump?
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I think it was 70 watts which would make sense given the heat.
I ended up getting another $19.00 126gph/4 ft head fountain pump and built it into a 4x4x2 watertight
electrical box (making it into an in-line). Pretty cool really. It has 4 tabs for mounting on the wall and it is mounted on the wall where my return comes in from the GLoop. Neat, tidy and near silent. Total cost was slightly under 30 bucks.
It only uses 10 watts and I put it in series with my other one. Pressure and volume increased a fair amount and it looks like it may have bought me 2-4 C on CPU temp. Too soon to tell on the temps, but either way it is nice to have the twin redundancy.
/Add: I forgot to mention my inlet temp went to 28C today after three days of pumping 180-200 SiSoft watts into the GLoop. Hopefully that will be my stable temp. I have my fingers crossed.