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Well if I understand what Smart people have said the Presure is the same anywhere in a closed circuit (water) and I belive it but I design and have built and tested the system below(Attachment below) I could not --and no way- have the 1048 loop join on the pressure side of the Aqua Via. Common sense tells me it won't flow. I had run out of tubing to test but I got my Tygon today and started my first cut and a light went on (a dim light) about the fact " pressure is the same" so I put my knife down and decided to post and maybe somebody will look at it and see something I don't. I would like to have reduancy if one pump go out and that means joining the 1048 loop before the block or at the block with T or Y--( I have no 5/8 Y but several 1/2). A "Y" would be close on clearance so I will say a T.
If pressure is same, I should get the same flow through the 1048 loop if it enters a T right on the block as I do with it at the suction side of the Via. Common sense tells me "not" . The 1048 loop has nothing on it now but the Rad but when I decide to add a video block or MB or Hard drive cooler or a chiller, I will have the loop. I plan on keeping the 3/8 OD tube on it for now as that gives me a lot more options for Acess. blocks.

Be fore everybody says it Over kill--I know it now. I had the swiftech sys. and it flowed about 39 gal a hour and a danger Den block (maze) and BI w/1048 and it flowed (I forget but about 35Gph) and I wanted the Magic 1 gal Per min. So I bought the core from D-tek and the A V 1300 from Be coolin and found out with just the core, the 1048 would give me the Magic 60 GPH when i swap tops on the 462 swiftech (1/2 X 1/2). But now I got them and I gonna use them. And actually the Via 1300 has 12 Gph on the secondary loop with the 1048 off and that means it got to flow through it--that should be at least as much resistance as a block on it. Any thoughts or comments welcome--But it has been running like this for several days (leak testing) and My new MB arrives tommorow and I will probably do something bad or wrong before Thursday like not leak test it after I put new tubing on it. Should of posted last week but only when I put the blade on the tygon did the LiL light come on. Thanks if you read all this.