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charlie
05-15-2004, 07:52 PM
Got this pump relay thingie from Criticool, www.criticool.com and first of all I thought it'd take another week to get here from Canada, but I got it today in like 4 days. It's a little relay on a pci card thingie that turns your pump on/off with the mobo. Also allows you to attach the pump power cord to the relay INSIDE the case and the plug from the wall goes right into there in the expansion slot!!!! So I was able to put the side panel of the case on without a cord hanging out, lol. Works as promised :D it even has a switch to manually run the pump with the mobo/rig OFF to bleed the system or whatever.
Also got a very slick little water reservoir from www.criticool.com it's very nicely made from quality acrylic.
Back to the relay pci thingie, the Powerplant II, I literally unplugged the pump from the wall measured the length necessary to reach Powerplant II, cut the cord, stripped the black and white wires, put black in HOT and white in NEUTRAL, tightened the screws, pushed card into pci slot and plugged new wall cord into expansion slot on the rear.....DONE 3 minutes TOPS!


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kommando
05-15-2004, 11:09 PM
Looks nice, but do you have to solder a connection on to get it working?

charlie
05-15-2004, 11:19 PM
nope.....
no soldering. just push wires into block and tighten screws :D

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a5h
05-16-2004, 12:00 AM
i have the same relay ...its great (although i havn't used it yet :p: )

Wimo
05-16-2004, 06:01 AM
I've also got it ... But I don't have the balls to put it in my pci slot :)

megahurtz-oc
05-16-2004, 06:43 AM
these things are awsome had one for about 3 months after looking at i figured out how to make my own with a standard ISO relay. really simple. but yes they rock.

REDKEN
05-17-2004, 08:48 AM
I have the same one and I can tell you that it is a very good quality product. I'm very happy with mine :)

bhoward
05-18-2004, 05:00 AM
I argee, very good product!

texuspete00
05-19-2004, 06:25 AM
Reviews originally said you could get shocked but they would fix in e new revision. How are your guys or do you recognize a ver #? People had to use electrical as a fix on certain bare leads.

charlie
05-19-2004, 07:28 AM
Yeah, they covered the entire back of the pcb with rubber sheet stuff...

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