Help on programming DOS for Alk and Cal

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I understand that they can’t dose at the same time or close to each other. Right now it only doses Alk 7 ml spread in 24 hours.
How to add Cal dosing using DOS to make sure they dose the same amount but not together or close to each other?
 
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If you guys can share your programming it will be appreciated
 

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I’m this is my ALK -my Calc is the exact same time period.

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I believe the Dos will automatically offset the doses as long as you aren’t manually programming the Dos.
No, the DOS does not automatically avoid dosing both at the same time. You'd have to offset the schedules on each head by the number of minutes a single interval runs, and even that only works if both heads are dosing the exact same volume as the DOS calculates how frequently to run based on the amounts.
 

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I understand that they can’t dose at the same time or close to each other. Right now it only doses Alk 7 ml spread in 24 hours.
How to add Cal dosing using DOS to make sure they dose the same amount but not together or close to each other?
If you look at the Interval Summary on your DOS, it will tell you how frequently each dose will be delivered. In order to avoid concurrent dosing, you need to offset the two intervals by a number of minutes. In your example with 7 mL per day, it doses 0.1 mL every 20 minutes. So if you have one head set to run from 00:00 - 23:49, and the other one set to run from 00:10 - 23:59, that would cause them to dose at alternating cycles due to the 10 minute offset.

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If you look at the Interval Summary on your DOS, it will tell you how frequently each dose will be delivered. In order to avoid concurrent dosing, you need to offset the two intervals by a number of minutes. In your example with 7 mL per day, it doses 0.1 mL every 20 minutes. So if you have one head set to run from 00:00 - 23:49, and the other one set to run from 00:10 - 23:59, that would cause them to dose at alternating cycles due to the 10 minute offset.

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Simple as that? Thanks!!
 

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Simple as that? Thanks!!
Yes, it's that simple. But only if both heads are dosing the exact same amount. Since the DOS calculates the frequency and amounts based on the overall daily volume and time window, if you had differing amounts on each head, the cycles could overlap at certain points during the day.
 
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Yes, it's that simple. But only if both heads are dosing the exact same amount. Since the DOS calculates the frequency and amounts based on the overall daily volume and time window, if you had differing amounts on each head, the cycles could overlap at certain points during the day.
I am dosing ESV 2 parts which require both to be dosed the exact same amount, no?
 

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