welcome to my unboxing and first look at the phobia balancer 150 goldplated
Edition it comes with a three-year warranty which unlike most cooling
products where I don't kind of go oh okay it has a three-year warranty it's a
heat sink what could possibly go wrong um water cooling components I do
appreciate seeing a bit of a longer warranty on because they can leak over
time and they can have problems so having the manufacturer stand behind it
holy crap this thing is heavy I already love it um is a good thing
so okay see what else is in here we got some mounting hardware we got some sort
of some uh G14 inch threaded plugs did I
say G14 inch I think it's just G14 I can't remember anymore do you want
quarter inch yeah look at that I'm not that out of the game mounting threads
four time M4 2 * M6 usable for installation pressure tested to two bar
and made of goldplated brass and Plexi yes that is what I excited about about
the 150 this is a fairly small radiator
radiator Reservoir but check this out it actually has goldplated
brass there you go on the bottom and the
top of the tube so 150 refers to the
actual length of the reservoir so it's available in a variety of configurations
you can get I believe it's a 250 or even a 400 mm so in inches that'd be
approximately 6 12 and like 20 in or
something 18 in or something along those lines um included accessories so here
you go you've got plugs because there are a variety of different options in
terms of the uh fill Port as well as the
inlet and Outlet so you're going to plug the top no matter what so you'll open
that up just to fill it and then on the bottom you can either go in and out here
and then you can plug these two on the bottom or you can go in and out on the
bottom and you can plug the two on the top so you're going to have to provide your own FS for the rest of the holes
which is just two additional ones and I would definitely recommend getting some
goldplated fittings to go with this thing because that would be pretty
awesome now inside you can see that
there's actually a baffle included it's a thick piece of plexia it's nice it's
actually quite clear hopefully you can see that um so there's a baffle included
so as the water comes in one side uh you
can get air bubbles that'll just get sucked right into like so it'll come in
here and there will be air bubbles and then it'll get sucked right back out the other side so the air never settles in
the reservoir putting in a baffle like this prevents that from happening
because it means that the water has to go up and around giving the bubbles time
to escape and go up to the top of the res uh rather than just being like like
this also having it extend up like this with these holes prevents the tornado
effect which can cause air to be sucked in as well so that was a problem with
older reses particularly coming in from the bottom here as opposed to the bottom
here where would cause a Vortex inside to make an air pocket that would travel
down to the bottom and get sucked up so that is all taken care of and the
threads on here are pretty heavy duty as well actually here you can see the Rubber seal
here and basically why would you want a product like this well if you have a
custom water cooling Loop sorry I'm just going to tighten this up if you have a
custom water cooling Loop then you're going to need a reservoir of some sort
anyway and personally I'm not a huge fan of bay reservoirs they have a lot of
points of failure that's what I don't like about them they have a lot of different places where the acrylic or
Plexi is typically glued which makes me kind of uncomfortable because over time
Plexi cracks especially if you use UV lighting especially if it's subject to
heat especially if this and that and that and that and all these things so
those glue joints can crack there's only a couple reservoirs that really have a
good reputation for reliability that are made of glued Plexi things like the MC
res micro from swifttech whereas most of the bay reses out there have huge
problems with breakages over time so I like a solid piece of acrylic with
rubber seals at either end so I like cylinder reses and that's where was I
going with this right you'll need a reservoir anyway so you might as well if
you can't use a bay you might as well use something that you can show off and
you can have people look at so one of the other ones I like is the t- virus
and uh if I wasn't going to do that if I was say for example doing a gold themed
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videos and I mistakenly
ordered an additional hold down bracket for this thinking that it didn't come
with a high quality one but it does so right oh yeah I should probably mention
that it comes with an extremely robust mounting bracket check that out so
there's foam inside to prevent it from being scratched and uh here let's just
put it on or well no okay I'll show the foam first so foam inside to prevent it
from being scratched or anything bad from happening to it very solid
construction here so you can screw it in with either three or two mounting spots
here I would probably use these two because it these two don't look that
useful there's probably instructions actually there
aren't really oh okay well you'll figure it out here's the mounting
screws um I'd probably go with these two on the uh on the ends here if I was
going to do anything so you just kind of oh you're going to have to stretch it
this was what bugs me about uh cylinder reservoirs you have to just kind of go
like this with them and clip them in and I always worry about scratching the uh I
worry about scratching the tube but I guess I could just kind of man up you
know what I'm not going to do it I'll do it when I have all the tools that I can
do it without scratching it okay don't forget to subscribe to Li Tech tips from
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