Exact iDip Digital Water Testing

Greenstreet.1 · Sep 22, 2015

From what they are telling me as when I run all these test the app will will give me the mag automatically. What I will try later is running the alk and cal test back to back then see what results it gives me.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Sep 22, 2015

Did you have to pay separately for the sulfate and chloride tests?

Greenstreet.1 · Sep 22, 2015

Yes I will have to pay for them separately.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Sep 22, 2015

Greenstreet.1 said:
Yes I will have to pay for them separately.

That seems weird and unnecessary. They have already told us publicly in this thread (post #26) how they calculate magnesium, and it doesn't involve sulfate, chloride or alkalinity (and shouldn't). To make people pay for them can only be explained by poor software.

Greenstreet.1 · Sep 22, 2015

Will be contacting them on the way to work cause I don't understand that myself cause they also told me that all I needed was cal and alk for mag and I would not need the chloride for saltwater setup.

Greenstreet.1 · Sep 22, 2015

But on a next note the alk and po4 seems to be on point so far.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Sep 22, 2015

Greenstreet.1 said:
But on a next note the alk and po4 seems to be on point so far.

That's good to hear! :)

Greenstreet.1 · Sep 22, 2015

Hanna still zero idip still reading Lo. Alk always a little under salifert.

Greenstreet.1 · Sep 22, 2015

Just got off the phone with them. They are saying all I need to do is the alk and total hardness and I will get mag will try that if I have time when I get in later.

reefwiser · Sep 23, 2015

Will be doing a Google hangout with ITS the manufacturer of Exact iDip Friday afternoon at 3:30 pm EST.
If you have any questions please post them to this thread so that I can see that we can get answers to your questions.
You can also. PM me if you wish.

Greenstreet.1 · Sep 24, 2015

Little update found out why I can not get a mag reading they are not able to read the levels for our tanks yet they only read as hi as 1000ppm when it comes to mag and we keep ours over that but he did tell me that they will be updating that.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Sep 24, 2015

Greenstreet.1 said:
Little update found out why I can not get a mag reading they are not able to read the levels for our tanks yet they only read as hi as 1000ppm when it comes to mag and we keep ours over that but he did tell me that they will be updating that.

One way around that now is to dilute the tank water with RO/DI. 1:1.

Then it will come into range. :)

Greenstreet.1 · Sep 24, 2015

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
One way around that now is to dilute the tank water with RO/DI. 1:1.

Then it will come into range. :)

Ok will try that later on when I get back home

Greenstreet.1 · Sep 24, 2015

reefwiser said:
Will be doing a Google hangout with ITS the manufacturer of Exact iDip Friday afternoon at 3:30 pm EST.
If you have any questions please post them to this thread so that I can see that we can get answers to your questions.
You can also. PM me if you wish.

I'll be at work [emoji20]

reefwiser · Sep 24, 2015

you can acess it from the google hangout app on your phone. Will be uploading the video for everyone to watch.

reeferKen · Sep 24, 2015

reefwiser said:
Will be doing a Google hangout with ITS the manufacturer of Exact iDip Friday afternoon at 3:30 pm EST.
If you have any questions please post them to this thread so that I can see that we can get answers to your questions.
You can also. PM me if you wish.

Will you then post it on your youtube channel after? Edit: I see you just answered this.
For the google hangouts day... do folks just send an invite to Ed Wiser? I'm on a desktop only. I've never used it before thanks in advance.

reefwiser · Sep 24, 2015

Here is the page for the hangout.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cq7redt8gie07ffkvctdoektq4c

I generally post these a week later is I do post video editing adding titles and such to the video.

reeferKen · Sep 24, 2015

As to logging, I'd like to see what the logging feature looks like and how to share with excel spreadsheet (from the product flyer). Maybe a topic for the friday hangout. How do folks like to compile the results email or other method? Thanks.

eXact iDip® · Sep 25, 2015

Sorry I haven't been on to post this week, I see this thread has been going strong. Thank you Randy Holmes-Farley for clarifying everyone's general chemistry questions! You are doing an excellent job and everything that I read looked accurate and relevant to our testing.

I do want to clarify for those concerned about Mag testing the only tests you need are total hardness high range (THH) and calcium (CA) the web page posted a few days ago is general page on all of our auto calculations. For example if you want to get a sodium result you would run the required tests (SO4, CL-, etc...), but sodium is not a test that is designed for marine water.

As reefwiser had stated we will be doing a Google hangout this afternoon to answer everybody's questions and I'll try be more active on the forum to answer them here.

Greenstreet.1 · Sep 25, 2015

Christian K said:
Sorry I haven't been on to post this week, I see this thread has been going strong. Thank you Randy Holmes-Farley for clarifying everyone's general chemistry questions! You are doing an excellent job and everything that I read looked accurate and relevant to our testing.

I do want to clarify for those concerned about Mag testing the only tests you need are total hardness high range (THH) and calcium (CA) the web page posted a few days ago is general page on all of our auto calculations. For example if you want to get a sodium result you would run the required tests (SO4, CL-, etc...), but sodium is not a test that is designed for marine water.

As reefwiser had stated we will be doing a Google hangout this afternoon to answer everybody's questions and I'll try be more active on the forum to answer them here.

I was told that the idip cannot give a proper reading for our mag levels yet do you know when it will be updated to read our mag levels ?