Pump Noise Decoupling Comparison Video

[UrbanSmooth]

Martin, thank you so much for all of the vigorous testing that you do! I'm at the point in my latest build where I will be setting up the pumps, and I just happen to come across this thread on here. I knew that I needed to decouple the pumps to help with vibration, so I cut out some of the soft foam from my AX1200 psu box.

However, the part that peaked my interest here was about the heat from the pump being trapped between the pump and the foam. The "lift" idea really opened my eyes! I actually have a bag of 100 nylon spacers that I ordered from McMaster-Carr that I was going to use in another part of my build, but ended up not doing. It's good to know that these nylon spacers will get some use! Thank you!

[Martinm210]

You bet!..glad it helps.

[MagisD]

Ok so this is bad ?



Great now I have to rework my loop and make risers. I'm thinking best bet is a undesign mount on a shoggy sandwich. A fancy version of martins setup.

Also just sorted out super quick and dirty method that most of us would have laying around.
Thumb screws inserted into short pieces of 3/8 tubing.

Can screw into bottom if pump and be mounted on other end to whatever.
I'm thinking mounted to Plated glued to foam.

Anybody see any holes in my idea ?





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[Martinm210]

That should work. I've also heard of people "suspending" the pumps from tubing, so I'm trying that our right now. It works pretty well for the smaller DDC series pumps, this is how I have one running and also works decoupled fine. I also stuck a few ram sinks to the bottom that I had lying around for extra cooling.