Utting the tubing, Connecting components, Reparing the coolant – Swiftech H20 120 T User Manual
Page 6: Illing up the circuit, Inal installation
Cutting the tubing, & connecting components
Now that your mock-up installation is in place, it is time to cut segments of tubing and connect the devices together.
Preparing the coolant
Your kit comes with a 2 Oz (60ml) bottle of Swiftech’s specially formulated HydrX
concentrated coolant. The product should be mixed with
distilled or demineralized water only. Simply empty the concentrated coolant into a 33 fl oz (1 liter) plastic bottle, and complete filling with your
distilled water. Your coolant is ready.
Filling up the circuit
Please refer to the
in appendix for specifics on how to fill-up the system. In this paragraph, we will discuss safety
measures.
It is good practice to pre-test that your system is liquid-tight away from sensitive electronic components. Two strategies can be employed:
Dismount all the components that you installed in the mock-up, and fill-up your system outside of the case, or
Remove Hard-drive(s), floppy, CD-ROM, VGA adapter, Memory, and any other add-on cards (Raid, sound, network, etc.), and
test with the motherboard installed in the chassis only. Make sure that the motherboard is not electrically connected (our
preferred method). If an accident happened, and fluid was sprayed onto the motherboard, clean off the moist area, use a can of
compressed air if available to blow the area dry (or a hair dryer), and wait 24 hours to let any moisture dry off.
In either case, you will need to start-up your pump in order to completely fill-up the system. Since your MCP350 is a 12Volts pump feeding off
the computer power-supply, you must be able to start the PSU without it being connected to the motherboard. While the Internet is full of
references on how to short-out pin 14 and 15 of the ATX connector to start up the PSU independently, we really do not recommend this method.
The safe and proper method to start-up the PSU independently is to use a power-supply tester. A wide variety of these common devices is
available on the Internet (Google key word: “PSU tester”), and among Swiftech resellers (
etc..)
Final installation
Once your system has been tested for leaks, it is now time to proceed with the final installation. Assuming that you followed our
preferred
method
, re-install all the components inside the chassis, being careful to keep the water-blocks out of the way (some wire-ties or rubber
bands strategically placed are a good help). Then perform the final water-block installation using thermal grease, in accordance with your
specific water-block model installation guide (see appendix).
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