Packaging & Accessories
Colored thin cardboard box
Plenty of bubble wrap protecting the sensor/meter.
Unboxed you get the meter and one 8-1/2″ x 5.5″ help guide written in German which is of little “help” for us English readers. I know some bits and pieced of other languages, but German isn’t one of them and I haven’t figured out how to easily translate hard copy materials yet..:)
I was generally happy with the protection of the unit which is really important to prevent damage, but there wasn’t any cable included and the help guide was in German only. I could interpret a few notes about the compatibility and some notes on the bottom about “High Flow” is 169 impulse/liter. I would note that while you could create your own cable, for plug and play purposes, you will need to order a flow sensor cable.
Extra Cable Purchase Recommended
In the usual AC fashion the cable for the sensor does not come in the sensor box, you have to buy it separately. You could probably make it yourself if you can find the larger 3 pin plug at Radioshack or other electronics supplier though. They gave me one as part of my Aquaero review/demo.
Packaging was good with lots of bubble wrap protection, but the accessories were missing the cable and English manual. While it’s not real complex and I could do without the manual, I would have expected the cable to come with it as part of the standard packaging since it is fairly specialized with the big plug and necessary to operate.
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Pretty fascinating product. Excellent review chock full of very useful information as usual Martin.
Thanks! I wanted to make sure I had the accuracy part down since I’m going to use it for rad testing too. Flow meter isn’t something I get to review every day either, so it was fun trying something new.
An excellent review!
Martinm210,I understand you correctly,the settings in Aquaero 5 LT must be such for AC Flow Sensor ???
Compression Fitting ( ID 1/2″ – OD 3/4″) = 159 impulses per liter
Compression Fitting ( ID 3/8″- OD 5/8″) = 169 impulses per liter
thank you
Thanks! Yes, while I haven’t tested a bunch of fittings, the 1/2″ Danger Den came out to 158. I am assuming smaller ID fittings will have a more concentrated stream of flow hitting the impeller causing it to turn slightly faster at the 169 number. Any number between the two will get you to within about 7% accuracy though so it’s not too critical for day to day use.
Hi Martin, i’m very new at this so please bear with me. I have 3 x 680′s, i7 3930 @ 4.5 everything is water cooled including mobo, aquaero 5 XT / PROcontroller and ram (I know RAM is overkill). Using the Koolance dual bay with 2 x mcp 655 (aquacomputer) pumps (1/2 5/8 OD tubing) and the Aquacomputer Flow sensor mps flow 400 with the aquaero 5 XT / PRO, the readings on the flow meter is 204 l/h is this to high or could this be a faulty reading? I cant seem to find any info anywhere since I have this on a serial loop (everyone else is dual), any advice would be appreciated.
btw temps are very low idles is 27*
No, thats about 0.9 Gallons per minute which is fine.
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