Fill and bleed system

Filling a liquid cooling setup that has no reservoir with liquid could be quit annoying and difficult. Swiftech has the perfect solution for this: Their Fill And Bleed Kit.

This is a combination of three cranes. First you close the middle one, and put the two ends into a temporary reservoir, such as a big bottle with the liquid. Start the pump. The liquid will start running through the setup. (Verify for leakage). After a while all the air will be vanished, and then it’s time for the last step, opening the middle crane en closing the two others. You can remove the tubing to the external reservoir.


Valve’s positions to fill the system


Then the bleeding starts

Finally you close the upper valves and the system is working without air in the tubes!

This is a great method for saving space as you don’t need to make room for a reservoir, transportation is quite easy also, and refilling the system is straightforward.

Other

HydrX by Swiftech. This a green product you pour into the water. It prevents the growth of algae and gives a small boost to the Heat transfer.

Tubing: Swiftech was really generous over here. A lot of tubing was added so there is space for mistakes. You can also see that some end of the tubing have a little gray thingy inside. This is to make the ends stronger and makes it easier to push them into the quick-connect fittings.

Coolsleeves: This spiral wrap needs to be wrapped around the tubing on places where you make a short turn. It prevents kinks in the tubing and thus interrupting the water flow.



With the system completely installed it’s time for some performance tests ->