Pump Configuration

Jack_The_Ripper · 04-15-2003, 11:45 AM

Begining the process of building my water-cooling setup but have a few questions regarding the pump I have. I purchased an extremely powerful Little Giant 300GPH pump off ebay, it says submirsible but looks like it could be used as a power-head pump. Which configuration should I use?

bigben2k · 04-15-2003, 11:55 AM

You could give it a shot.

Personally, I wouldn't recomend it. If you look at the power rating, this little sucker will draw 100 Watts (maximum), and that's kinda on the high side for an in-line pump without any external cooling.

You could get creative and thermal epoxy a bunch of heatsinks all over it, and run a fan around it.

:shrug:

Jack_The_Ripper · 04-16-2003, 11:47 AM

Well, think I'll be using it submerged. Should work fine, just add a little mat of neoprene to the bottom of the res to kill vibration noise. BTW, I know the pump is kind of overkill, but I got it cheap and its a nice pump. Besides it's going in an external enclosure so its gonna need a bit more head.

04-15-2003, 11:45 AM	#1
Jack_The_Ripper Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Oregon, USA Posts: 8	Pump Configuration Begining the process of building my water-cooling setup but have a few questions regarding the pump I have. I purchased an extremely powerful Little Giant 300GPH pump off ebay, it says submirsible but looks like it could be used as a power-head pump. Which configuration should I use?

04-15-2003, 11:55 AM	#2
bigben2k Responsible for 2% of all the posts here. Join Date: May 2002 Location: Texas, U.S.A. Posts: 8,302	You could give it a shot. Personally, I wouldn't recomend it. If you look at the power rating, this little sucker will draw 100 Watts (maximum), and that's kinda on the high side for an in-line pump without any external cooling. You could get creative and thermal epoxy a bunch of heatsinks all over it, and run a fan around it. :shrug: __________________ WBTA (Water Block Testing Alliance) Nordic Hardware WC 101

04-16-2003, 11:47 AM	#3
Jack_The_Ripper Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Oregon, USA Posts: 8	Well, think I'll be using it submerged. Should work fine, just add a little mat of neoprene to the bottom of the res to kill vibration noise. BTW, I know the pump is kind of overkill, but I got it cheap and its a nice pump. Besides it's going in an external enclosure so its gonna need a bit more head.

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