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Now grab distilled water and fill up the rest of the Reserator up-to about two-thirds. If you can't get a hold of distilled water then please do not use regular tap water, booze, nitro-glycerin or any other non-specified coolant. Regular water for example has a lot of calcium and bacteria in it.

Give it a week and you'll have millions of new little friends waving at you from inside that tubing. Well they're not waving yet screaming and begging to get out, they're a bit dizzy from the continued roller-coaster ride.

If you do need to use regular water in it then bring it to the boil for a couple of minutes and let it cool down. Then use that water and most calcium will be gone and most bacteria dead from the heat.  You'll need roughly a litre.

Time to give the Reserator some juice. Let's connect the 12V line.

We bypassed the PC from powering up by using a handy PSU tester. Basically the only thing connected towards the PSU is this device and the resonator.

If you do not have such a device at hand use the green supplied wire. Take the 20 or 24 pin ATX power connector from the PSU and hot-wire the Green wire with the black one next to it. The PSU will power on as you are now jump-starting it.

Give it a minute and allow the coolant to be spread through the tubing. Monitor for air pockets and turn the pump on and off a couple of times if you do not see flow. If there is proper flow then the flow control indicator will show movement from the flow-meter at the front of the device. Squeeze and push on the degassing tube a little if the flow is blocked. You can also lift up the Reserator a little as gravity will help you.

It took us about 5 minutes before there was constant and air-free flow.

Houston, we have lift-off.

Really lovely. At the right side we can find a flow-control meter. If it spins you're all set. If it does not turn/spin/rotate you are fracked. The beauty of the Reserator XT is if the flow is too low an alarm will warn you. I checked it out (pinched the tubing) and after a while indeed you'll hear an alarm go off. Fantastic stuff.