DDC3.2 Pump Top Shootout! 10 tops tested..

[Sparda]

damn custom stole my money My packet just arrive for from Sidewinder for my second loop but being hold at customs. Sidewinder have great customer service

[Martinm210]

Wow, truely impressed here martin. Have you considered designing a top of your own. I think you've got soem great ideas for improving the design. Especially the idea of the angled/tapered inlet. All of my flow experience is in airflow but, the theories are quite similar. If the inlet was tapered from 1/2"ID to match the internal diameter of the inlet barb down to the impeller inlet with a slight radius to get the water moving into the farthest point in the pump from the outlet it should maximize efficiency and increase the velocity of the the flow.

Heck, maybe I'll make one

I've always thought of tinkering just to see what I could make, but I've learned my lesson over trying to fabrication stuff on a manual mill. I've yet to make a block where I've even made minimum wage...paper route is more profitable..

I think the next bit of tinkering I'm going to do is with some custom nozzles for some pump tops possibly the D5. I figured if I can find some good tweaks to existing designs, I'll send my thoughts to those manufacturers to consider for free. I'm not in this for money, I'd be happy just knowing some of my ideas were being used. The manufacturers have the means to make these things...I don't and I don't want to either. I do just fine with my regular engineering job...this is all for fun.