has this ever happened to you well no fear because leak Shield is here stop
leaks of all kinds anywhere anytime even
helps you fill and bleed your loops and at an incredible value whoa whoa whoa
hold on a second you're telling me this thing right here fills my Loop for me
helps me bleed out all the air bubbles detects leaks stops leaks and gives me a
whole bunch of other information about my water cooling system
okay we're we're going to we're going to have to test that out and we're going to
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below because of the outlandishness of this product's claims we needed not one
but two test systems in order to try it out one to actually plug it into and
monitor all the sensors and a second one to sit here and look pretty with
absolutely no power running to any of the components just in case the leak
Shield is more of a leak leak before we
run it though let's take a closer look at it it's pretty straightforward
honestly you've got a little display in the front a simple menu interface with
this button right here okay so you got short presses and long presses we'll
show you that a little bit later you've got your inputs for power and sensors
and then on the bottom ah yes this
membrane very interesting it's appropriately labeled do not touch
because any damage or tampering with this membrane turns your leak shield
into a paper weight its function is to
allow the leag shield to draw air out of your system creating a state of negative
pressure not so much that if it sprang a leak you would actually suck air into
the system but just enough to put it in a state of equilibrium so that water
won't come out and air won't go in in
order to achieve this it uses a wide array of parameters that it collects
either through software or through Hardware that allow it to monitor
pressure The Fill level any pressure changes any volume changes pump speed
and flow so the idea is that not only will it know if you have a leak it'll
how bad the leak is and respond accordingly oh oh right right sorry and
it has RGB but not in a stupid way this
ring actually indicates the status of your system so it's like useful RGB
you're saying all RGB isn't useful no I'm
yes so how to hook it up basically there's only two connectors on the leak
Shield there's a five pin so this is USB
and you can either run to an internal header on your motherboard like we did
or you can actually power it with a battery Bank using an external USB type
A if you wanted your leak Shield to be running say well you're transporting
your system in your car to a land party or something like that bit of an each
use case but hey there you go and then there's a second one this one is sold
separately and it allows the leak Shield to Hardware power down your system in
the event that it detects a leak which is pretty sweet we don't need it though
because the leak Shield can do that through software of course before we
even fill it the leak Shield can tell us if our system is watertight so let's go
ahead and open up the menu here and we go
to test and
test trippy
hey it's pressurizing the system right now it's kind of loud but that doesn't
go all the time that's only while it is drawing air into or pulling air out of
the system so there we go we're at
26.3 milar now it's normal for even a watertight
water cooling system to leak a little bit of air you just want to make sure
it's not too much so Aqua computer recommends leaving the leak Shield
monitoring the system for a few minutes at least and you can have a look at how
the pressure is doing over time by just long pressing to get into this menu here
and there it is there is our pressure
graph if that's flat then that's that I opened up this
valve to show you what the graph looks like if air is leaking out now it's time
for our next trick fill mode that's
right pouring water in the top of your Reservoir that's for non-league shield
peasants apparently now so we're in fill
mode we throw some water in our funnel here LTT
store.com got the water bottle and then I'm going to open up this
valve and the leak Shield starts sucking
water into the loop oh top it up how did it go self filling Reservoir
now something to not is you don't actually want the leag shield completely
full it needs a little bit of air at the top in order to function cuz remember
the membrane and the air now that we filled we can go ahead and Power on our
system including our pump and we are going to put the leak shield in De
eration mode I mean it really didn't end up with any air in it because our tubes
kind of had some water in them before now it's time to run our fill level
sensor just about at 100% fill level 73%
look at that trippy I mean looks about right to me
and we are ready to go into Shield
mode boom Now All That
Remains is to start putting holes in the
system leak protection protected we should be good to go let's start causing
problems so let's say you forgot to tighten one of the collar on one of your
tubes or all of the collar on all of your tubes I don't know you're just
you're a scatter brain you know what I mean you just you just kind of you threw
those tubes in there and you're like ah whatever who cares so then you like I
don't know put some pressure on the tube oh god oh
cool it totally did it
leakage high pressure
drop I mean it's bone dry
though oops Yeah I should really tighten
these fittings no water though whoa we're all
over the place here ladies and
gentlemen warning warning critical leakage oh I wonder why
maybe because the user's an idiot got him it's time to take things
to the next level aquac computer marketing for this product says that you
can just put holes in your tubing and the leak Shield will not leak water
I so um here we go I don't know if I can
do it it feels wrong
Jesus Christ L now that's
interesting with the drill bit sticking through it okay yeah it leaked a bit but
look at that it is not leaking you went
straight through it too damn leak Shield you crazy but why
have two holes when you can have three
holes okay three holes is too much
so you can see the more holes you have in the tubing the more water leaks out
and now what I can only I can I only
have two thumbs continuing this video's theme of pushing the product to its
limits Aqua computer recommends a few things for the leag shield one is that
you use their Reservoir and pump combo two is that you use their coolant and
three is that you use Hardline tubing which obviously helps when you're trying
to precisely maintain the pressure inside a loop we're going to be breaking
that last Rule now if you're going to use softline tubing they do specify
you've got to use thick wall rather than thin wall tubing and they're going to
have the exact measurements of tubing that you can use on their website we're
using thick wall tubing and we're going to have some fun after we fill it of
course it's slicey slicey
time it's a little startling that's okay we can fix this hold on we can fix this
I need some tape hold on we're going to fix the
loop okay oh I'm so clumsy just got to
fix my tubing here there we go oh you're
all better now buddy oh good Heavens I slipped
again oh no we got to fix it again there
we go there we go all fixed all fixed
you know with the leak shield in my system I might actually trust duct tape
tubing some
ideas got some more
ideas come on leak Shield do your
worst that's a big one you can't Shield my
leaks actually a lot of these are uh not
really even leaking that's why they say
always twist never stab we got one drop
that is darn impressive one
drop of course it's entirely possible the leak Shield isn't doing anything and
if we turned it off the system would still not leak we can test that I
release you leak Shield I actually put this fitting back
in before this demo cuz I didn't want to why did you do that well I didn't
think it would spray quite that hard ah there we go put the knife back in that's
why they say always quickly remove a
stabbing Implement okay when the moment comes it's going to be really cool okay
here we go come on leak shield look at
that stop and sucks it back in now you
have to configure the leak Shield through software at least once but
beyond that you actually don't need anything running for it to perform these
basic functions it does do way more if you have an ITA 64 license for example
it can tap into that you can connect it to your pump so it gets data from that
and there's all kinds of cool things you can configure like your alarm thresholds
and all kinds of neat stuff like that but at the end of the day this is what
people are buying it for this peace of mind and it can do it without even being
connected to the computer via USB which is darn impressive now should you buy it
well it's not the most economical way to test your Loop a couple paper towels
costs pennies and if you want to go a little more sophisticated than that EK
has a pump pressure tester that costs about 40 bucks but in terms of on
ongoing peace of mind or if you're transporting your system or if you
experience huge temperature swings that actually can cause pressure inside your
tubing I I don't know O-rings can wear out over time there's just nothing else
like it absolutely nothing else like it just like there's nothing else like my
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crazy water cooling experiments why don't we throw back to why don't you go
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radiators on the roof of the house we used to work out of it was a nightmare
did work though