Swiftech to release optional HSF for MCP35. pumps

[gabe]

And I believe BeiFei was the one that made them for him. I still have a couple laying around. I never really thought the MCP355 needed one, but it was a nice idea. Gabe, I love the fact that you are improving your designs. You have brought a lot of new products to the community lately and I am really looking forward to seeing the new rads. I would like to see some acrylic tops come from you for your blocks, but other than that I am just really liking all your new products and revisions. Glad to see you are not just sitting around playing WOW.

New Rads: Stephen has substantially upgraded our test bench, and it has allowed him to conduct very throrough tests with superior accuracy to what was possible before. The new rads reflect our findings. Nothing revolutionary, but substantive performance improvements in the most commonly used configurations.

Acrylic tops: up until recently, despite our best efforts, we've had cracking issues wit those. The guys at Koolance have a good approach on the design, using S/S cover to fasten the acrylic plate, which spreads the stress and prevents cracking, and I noticed that EK is now using a similar concept on one of their latest offerings. Personnaly, I am always reluctant to use someone else's idea unless I can innovate and improve upon it, and make it "my own" so to speak -but in general, I do stay away from others' ideas, and would rather innovate pure and simple, just for the joy of it!

This being said, I have not given up on acrylic tops. We recently bought a piece of equipment to treat the material. Let's see if it produces positive results.

Ok, so then the paradigm is that it's not's physically attachable to a case and rather held in place my the tubing and the fact that it'll be relatively heavy and sitting on rubber. (and that the case is stationary and not sitting in the back of an empty tractor trailer) That correct?

I'm not being silly, just making sure that I understand.

Edit: +1 on swiffy QDCs!@ (no drip and metal of course)

I edited my earlier response . Bugt yes, the assy can either sit on the panel unnatached, or be bolted to the panel. If you were to bolt it, you'd keep the rubber bushing in place on the feet, and drive a 6-32 thru the back of the panel, preferably using another rubber washer to decouple the screw.

I wonder if this would work with an apogee drive just slap in on top and bingo less heat from the pump inside the loop
terramir

Yes, why not if you have enough room? the Drive motor has the mount holes. You could even recut the HSF to fit the pump, it's very easy to do with a hacksaw. In fact, I wonder if we shouldn't release another HSF just for this. Need to discuss with Stephen about it. But note this: the amount of heat that goes into the loop remains very limited, so the primary benefit of installing an HSF to the pump would'nt be noticeable for loop thermal perf, but rather to remove heat from the pump.