Watercool HEATKILLER® Tube 150 DDC (30207)

A tube reservoir for a DDC pump, with a 150 mm borosilicate glass tube and about 375 ml capacity. The Watercool HEATKILLER® Tube 150 DDC takes the motor of an original Laing, Lowara or Xylem DDC pump in its POM bottom (pump not included) and has two G1/4 ports.

Properties

Pump

DDC (original Laing / Lowara / Xylem), sold separately

Capacity

Approx. 375 ml, 150 mm tube

Ports

2x G1/4

Size

70 x 70 x 216 mm with pump

Lighting

Optional LED strips in the struts

The HEATKILLER Tube series

Watercool builds the HEATKILLER® Tube Series as a modular system of high end reservoirs around a glass tube made from borosilicate glass. Every part can be exchanged on its own, so a DDC bottom can later become a D5 bottom. The outstanding features Watercool names for the series are listed here.

To account for the space availability in current cases, the glass tubes come in three sizes, 100 mm, 150 mm and 200 mm, from a mini-ITX build to a big tower. There are also three versions. Besides the standalone version, two have direct connections for pumps: they support D5 and DDC pumps by Lowara (formerly known as Laing, now Xylem) and their derivatives. The same DDC bottom also comes on the Tube 100 DDC and the Tube 200 DDC.

Borosilicate glass and the large filling mouth

Borosilicate is a glass with very high chemical and thermic (thermal) resistance and very low heat expansion, and it is scratch-resistant. Watercool says these features make it an ideal material for reservoirs.

Thanks to the bayonet catch lid, the large filling mouth is opened with a quarter turn counterclockwise, without any tools. That makes the reservoir easy to fill, and Watercool says it has never been easier to re-fill a cooling medium.

Large volume

Watercool writes that in designing the series "we took great care not to waste any of the available volume". The reservoirs need fewer re-fills because of it, which keeps maintenance very low.

Anti-cyclone inlay and pump chambers

D5 and DDC pumps easily form a vortex in the suction area and pull in air, which lowers cooling performance and brings bubbles into the loop. An exclusively developed anti-cyclone inlay of stainless steel, located at the bottom of the reservoir, prevents those vortices. Watercool says it reduces noise levels and makes air bleeding easier.

The pump adapter is a fitted acetal (POM) part that replaces the standard bottom piece, so the pump is fed straight from the reservoir. Watercool gives the D5 and DDC pump chambers a streaming-optimized shape: the chamber causes fewer vortices during use, with a positive effect on both flow rate and air bleeding.

Fitting the DDC pump

Remove the four torx screws in the base of your DDC pump and take off its body: only the motor (rotor and stator) is used. With the empty reservoir on its side, take out the four M4x35 DIN956 screws in the bottom. Set the motor into that cover, lead the cable out through the small side notch, put the O-ring back and screw the cover on. Take care not to squeeze the cable.

Made in Germany

Watercool states that the Tube reservoirs are completely produced in Germany, on its own CNC machines in Waren, with much of the work done by hand and each product finished under the dual control principle.

Options

Extensive optional accessories, sold separately, offer variable mounting systems for optimal integration into a water cooled system, so they can fit your build. For example:

• Horizontal mount (pedestal): two pedestals of different height, the short stand and the long stand. They screw to the case floor, or the reservoir stands free-standing on them. A matching decoupling kit is available separately.
• Vertical mount: the multifunctional bracket of the Basic Mounting Kit slides onto the struts and holds the reservoir on a flat surface such as the case wall.
• Several adapters for the bracket: some attach the reservoir to 120x120mm or 140x140mm cooler slots (fan mounts), the 120 mm pair and the 140 mm pair. Others allow mounting it on a radiator from the MO-RA3 series.
• Illumination: splash-safe LED strips in various colors, RGB or aRGB, set the reservoir in scene. They are hidden in the struts of the reservoir cage.
• Colored struts: exchange the default black struts to customize the reservoir. Watercool offers aluminum struts in natural color, which third parties can anodize in any color.
• Watercool also makes them with a choice of anodized colors (red, blue); the 150 mm black struts are on the shelf as a spare set.

What the loop needs

A DDC pump, since this version holds only its motor. The two G1/4 ports take two fittings for your tube.

Technical data

Notes

• Check all seals before the first start-up. If the reservoir leaks, check the O-rings for position and damage; with a squeezed or damaged O-ring it must not be used.
• Drain the reservoir and take it out of the loop before any change to it. In the pump versions the pump comes off first to reach the bottom screws.
• The glass tube seals with O-rings of 4 mm or 5 mm to make up for length tolerance. Use the strength you found in your reservoir; the spare O-rings for the glass tube contain both.

In the box

• 1x HEATKILLER® Tube 150 DDC
• 1x manual

Watercool's assembly instructions are the installation manual for the whole Tube series, with the pump installation, disassembly and every mounting system, plus the information you need before start-up.