Problem with air in watercooling setup

[jere01]

I just set up a fairly basic watercooling setup in my case with a hydor pump, maze 4 waterblock and a black ice 80mm radiator. I've got everything connected up and I put a T connector in the high point of the system with a piece of tube that is always full of water. I filled everything up and have had it running all day. Every so often I turn the pump off and bump all of the bubbles up to the top and it seems to be fine but when I come back in an hour, there is more air in there and the level in the T pipe has risen. How could this air be getting into the system? There are no leaks anywhere so I can't figure it out. Please let me know!

Thanks

 

[iamtrout]

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...7&threadid=1441798

The water level is actually rising? When the pump is off the water level will rise, but when the suction of the pump is turned on the water level should lower again. Is your water UV reactive? If so you can turn off all the lights and wave your UV cathode around to see if you can find a glowing leak. I would primarily check the pump and the radiator for damage. It could very well be that the leaking water is drying before it can form a puddle of any sort, making it hard to pinpoint.

 

[stevennoland]

I know that everyone with an H2O set-up hates bubbles in their mix. Give it some time (couple of days/weeks). You might want to add a res. Dangerden has a cool 5.25 bay one that actually helps get rid of nasty bubbles.