NEW: aquaero 5 series

[Shoggy]

@KGB7: a color display would have been nice but I'm sure that nobody here wants to pay for it. As said we are using a custom made LCD since we have specific requirements that no general display in the market offers. Same would have been for a color LCD but with a MUCH higher price. That display is nothing where you look at a few hours each day so why should we force people to pay so much money for it?

@Johnny87au: XT comes with passive heatsink and the IR remote control. The generated heat depends a lot on the attached fans or a pump on how you run them (slow speeds generate more heat). Running a pump without at least a passive heat sink will not work and the output will be switched off because of a too high temperature.

@Captain H.N.: there was nothing special in mind. It is just a 4-Pin connector. Of course you can also use it for a pump if you want to. The power which is drawn when the pump is spinning up can be much higher than the 1,65A so there is no problem to get the pump running while in normal operation it needs less power which can be easily provided.

@Johnny87au: 137W per channel?! You have four channels with 1.65A each which is 19,8W (12 x 1.65). The overall power that the aquaero can provide is 60W.

@Philwong: it is a LCD screen, not VFD. Color filters should work but will significant decrease brightness and contrast.

@churchy: the PWM channels have no rpm monitoring nor a separate rpm line since this already is a PWM signal. The signal is just a pulsed (16kHz) power signal. It can not be used with pumps since they would not start.

@Johnny87au: I don't know XMBC in detail but the remote control is also able to use the regular commands like you would use with Microsofts Media Center. So I guess that should work for you.

@MrToad: you can still use the ATX adapter cable but you will need a 3-pin relay plug this time. You could also use the option to shutdown the PC directly through the aquaero since it also connects as a keyboard and can send the key commands for power down or standby.

Running a Laing DDC pump with the passive heatsink works. Depending on the temperature in your case you might get problems if you slow down the pump to a very low speed since it will draw more power in this case. If the temperature reaches 85°C the output will be set to 100% which will cause the temperature to go down. A few seconds later your setting will be activated again. If the temperature can not be handled at all it would mean that the speed always jumps up and down because of the overheating protection. If the temperature is still going higher the output will be switched off the avoid damages on the aquaero.

The aquaero 5 can use a RGB LED. If you already have LEDs that you want to use you can easily build yourself an adapter for the 4-pin connector (ground, red, blue, green).

The digital sensors will be only available through our webshop. Other sensors will not work.

You can continue to use the aquabus cables that you already have. High and low speed interface use the same cable.

@Brodholm: You can connect two of these pumps to the analog fan connectors, but not to the PWM connectors since the pumps will not work on them.

@Martinm210: right, if you want to go for the 60W you will have to use the waterblock.

We had a D5 running on the aquaero (watercooled) and had no problems to adjust it between 45% to 100% (at lower values it stops). When we attached a second pump, a Laing DDC+, the aquaero was still working but the temperature was already pretty high - depending on how the speed of the pumps was set.

As said: digital sensors will be only available through us. Other sensors will not work.

@ximius: you just connect the poweradjust 2 controllers to the aquaero via a 3-wire aquabus cable. Since this is a real bus system you can just use y-adapters or a self-made adapter to connect up to six of them.

@cx-ray: sure, you can forward an rpm signal to a fan header.

@Mazlov: all flow sensors that we offer are compatible to the aquaero 5.

@MrToad: yes, it is I2C.

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For those who need to cool down an atomic power plant



19 x 120mm fans and a Laing DDC+ pump. All of them slowed down to get a worst case scenario for the voltage regulators. That aquaero was watercooled of course.