Radiical Pump Housing for Laing DDC-12 Volt

There can be no doubt about the acceptance of the Laing DDC-12volt pump by the water cooling community. Not only is this pump reliable it is nearly silent in operation and has a healthy pump head to boot.

There has, however, been one major issue with the Laing DDC-12v pump which has been difficult to change for many water coolers. That issue is the inability to alter the size, placement and direction of the inlet and outlet barbs.

In Europe there have been a number of manufacturers who have modified the top housing of the Laing pump to change to smaller 10mm tubing. Although these modifications greatly improved the adaptability of the pump for small tubing ID's the changes did not assist users of 1/2" ID tubing. To change the pump inlet and outlet to larger ID tubing requires the use of bulky and inflexible tubing adaptors.

The other issue with the Laing DDC-12v pump, as mentioned before, is that the barbs are integral with the molding for the pump head and cannot be adjusted. Modifications including drilling out the central barb and re gluing in a larger ID barb to the top central intake have been carried out by water cooling modders for some time. The major problem with this modification is that although the inlet for the pump has been modified to increase inlet flow the outlet remains at a very small 6.9mm ID. There can also be no further change so once modded you are stuck, sorry for the pun, with your glued up inlet barb.

We here at Radiical have for some time been looking at reducing component size whilst maintaining performance. We realized that the first size downgrade should be in the area of the pump. The Laing DDC-12v pump seemed to be the perfect answer to our quest. Having a small footprint and low profile makes the Laing pump the ideal size.The problem as stated above is that we have no freedom to direct the flow of water to the various components. Certainly the top can be turned around so that the barbs point in a different direction and the pump can be orientated so that it faces upwards. No problemo. The issue is that the barbs point in parallel and that's it folks. Well they did and now they don't.

The Radiical "Turbo Head©"

Radiical have now designed a pump top to adapt to the commonly used barb sizes. Struck by the rather obvious similarity we have named it the Radiical "Turbo Head©". The Radiical "Turbo Head©" allows the user to select

The direction of flow
tubing size
and the type of tubing fittings that can be used.

You can even mix and match tubing by say having a 1/2" inlet and a 3/8" outlet or a 3/8"inlet and a 10mm outlet. Whatever.

In addition to the increased fittings capacity the Radiical Turbo Head© also increases the flow rate through the pump to a rather staggering 500+l/h for the 10W version of this pump.

The Radiical Turbo Head© is available in clear Acrylic or black Delrin (Acetal)

Below is a montague of the various options now available with our Radiical "Turbo Head©" pump top. For the purposes of illustration the Delrin top has been used in the pictures

Figure One shows the "Turbo Head©" with 1/2 " barbs in a 90 degree format inlet upwards.

Figure Two shows "Turbo Head©" with 3/8" barbs in a 90 degree format inlet upwards

Figure Three shows the "Turbo Head©" with a right angle 90 degree bend on its top surface to establish parallel flow

Figure four shows the "Turbo Head©" with 8mm push fittings in parallel flow

Figure five shows the "Turbo Head©" with 8mm push fittings in vertical flow

Figure Six shows the "Turbo Head©" with 8 mm compression fittings in parallel flow

There are many more variations on the barbs theme but it is clear the pump has been transformed from its previous restriction of a single flow direction. Not only has management of the flow direction been achieved but we now have the ability with the Turbo Head© top to change barb and tubing size at will.

For those of you who like the see through appearance we have the clear Acrylic Version

or the

Delrin (Acetal) Turbo Top

The new Acetal black top completes the colour choices available. Finally, add to this the additional benefit of increased flow rate. Testing here indicates that the previous flow rate of 300l/h is now incorrect. The new rate of flow through the pump using 1/2" inlet and outlet barbs is 500+ l/h (testing carried out with CPU block and radiator components in place). This gain in flow rate is an added plus to potentially more and substantially easier options in pump placement. The testing on pump head indicates that a 2.6metre head is achieved on 3/8" tubing and a 2.5 metre head is achieved using 1/2" tubing.

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