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Originally posted by pHaestus
My wife and son are going out of town this weekend and I will test this all out for you guys. I have an Eheim 1250, a flowmeter (0.5-5gpm) and a bag of fittings already so I will just have to hit Lowe's up for some 3/8" vinyl tubing and some more 3/8" fittings.
Hopefully I will get the results posted Sunday or so.
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Well thats all good about the connectors but what about the channel sizes in the water blocks? If you have a 3/8" channel what good is 1/2"ID barbs? If you have 1/4" channel what good is 1/2"ID barbs (namely the Z4 before they stole mine and fixitts design). There are waaaaaay to many variables in each system to come up with standard numbers.
I see alsot of people saying 1/2" ID barbs work better than 3/8"ID barbs but yet their block has 3/8" channels?
I am probably just missing something though as usual. On water block #2 and 3 on my site I tested 3/16"ID barbs up to 3/8"ID barbs and had no difference in temps at all. I just wonder how many people mod their block to 3/8 or 1/2ID barbs and end up mounting the block better the second time to show better results.
But then again this all falls on what block design you have. Maybe the designs I have made do not matter what size the barbs are? The only one it made a difference on was #4 when I used the center inlet at 1/2ID and 2 outlets at 1/4ID. But that was probably the duel outlets center inlet that helped. Also I never used a pump over 200GPH in anything I use and I get pretty good results.
Bahhh!!! To much rambling, got to get back to the code for my Spiral.
