Aquacomputer Aquaero 5 XT and Flow Sensor, your liquid cooling system under control

In today's review we present two interesting Aquacomputer products for the water cooling: the Aquaero 5 XT, comprehensive tool to control your liquid-cooled PC, and the High Flow Flow Sensor G1/4, a sensor that allows to measure the flow of water in your liquid cooling system.

Flow Sensor specifications

Let us now briefly introduce the Flow Sensor before continuing in-depth technical analysis of the controller. We dismounted the sensor, showing the internals in all its parts, both to provide a quick reference for the periodic cleaning operations, both to show the genius of the detection system. The "High Flow" sensor, in fact, as its name suggests, does not adversely affect flow rate and therefore does not affect the already precarious work of the pump.

Unscrewing the 4 allen head screws we remove the steel plate. Unscrewing the 3 internal screws you can remove the electric body of the sensor (coil)

Note the O-ring seal. Below the detail of the auger that thanks to 2 magnets transmits the signal to the coil and through this to the connector and the controller that graphically represents the analog signal.

In the next section we will explain in detail the software capabilities of the controller.