Water tank

The polycarbonate water tank has room enough to hold the submersible pump as well as storing water and making it easy to fill the system. It consists of the tank itself; a lid that has an inlet and an outlet; a hole for the submerged pump cord and a cap for filling the tank. It doesn't have any obvious way of attaching it to the case, so I simply put mine in the bottom of the case. It sits between then case bottom and a hard drive mounting bay, and the white foam and bubble plastic in the pictures are only there to reduce vibrations and to keep it in place. It is NOT the appropriate and suggested way of installing it – but it turned out to work fine in my setup.

The water tank during operation. See the Sicca Micra Pump inside, running at full speed.

A close up of the lid

Pump

The pump is meant to be submerged into the water tank, as you can see from the pictures. It is a Sicca Micra water pump, 400 L/h, with 5 variable speed settings. During the tests I ran the pump at full speed.

When turned on I could hear it “rumble” at a very low volume. It cannot be used in an in-line setup, as the water intake is found as a large hole on the bottom of the pump. Unfortunately there was no relay included in this kit, so one has to manually switch on the pump before the computer is powered up. It goes straight into a 230V outlet (110V in the US), so it isn't powered by the computer’s power supply.

Tubing, manual and accessories

The tube is very flexible and easy to cut into desired lengths. There is more than enough tube for most cases, I forgot to measure its entire length – but I estimate somewhere close to 6 feet all in all.

Its diameter is 10 cm – or 3/8 of an inch. The manual is in English, and does a pretty good job of explaining how to install the kit. In the kit there was a pack of screws, a rubber gasket for the water tank lid and all the clamps needed to hold the tubing in place.

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