Agree to disagree — I’ve tried many 6mos solutions and calibrated with that bottle. Anyway, don’t really care anymore, mine is good enough since I don’t panic over actual result anymore.
Yes and no,
Never calibrate with the bottle it comes with. Always calibrate with tank water and manual testing. I do this every reagent change (ABC every 2 months “A” and 4 months “BC”) and it’s never drifted where it was always bad when using their supplied bottles.
Finally someone with tried and true experience responded. Thank you! I’ve calibrated using those “calibration” bottles so will try tank water and retest instead. Kinda dumb but if this gets me closer, fine.
Oh sorry, I thought you were asking for someone to share the custom schedule for you to use for yourself.
the wording in the quoted email, seems less opitimistic then how it was presented in the podcast
The sense ports can be used for a leak detector and another sensor if needed and the 2 drive ports can be used with 2 simple dosers to dose depending on the test results if you are using it stand alone.
I think the point being made was that fewer parts and complexity means less expensive and faster to market. It sounds like they are going the opposite direction by their own admission and adding things and making it a Swiss army knife. It is called feature creep and typically a bad thing.
The improvements are not necessarily new items added but could be just different hardware that is used in the testing that give better results. It may not even be about test results but could be something that would require less maintenance on the unit from the current amount that is required. Since they have a few in use including their headquarters tank things could have come up after longer periods of use that they want to improve on before release. This is all just speculation on my part though since I have no more info on this than what has been released. So improvements may not mean more physical ports being added to the controller to do more than originally planned.
The outright said they were adding new items that required now parts for new features and indicated that it was becoming more of a "Swiss army knife" and with each day they come up with new ideas about what it can do... thus those additions were the reason for the delay instead of waiting for version 2.0 to add those features.
Never calibrate with the bottle it comes with. Always calibrate with tank water and manual testing. I do this every reagent change (ABC every 2 months “A” and 4 months “BC”) and it’s never drifted where it was always bad when using their supplied bottles.
Here’s my schedule for half testing. I contemplated every other day calc and mag with single alk daily so i added DoW to further redline control, but I find this schedule fine long term. Runs me $2.50/month this way.
What I was trying to say is that any additions may not be a noticeable addition since the photos of them recently adding one to their own display tank look exactly like the one that was at the trade shows. It has the testing vessel and 2 drive ports, 2 sense ports and the 2 control bus ports. I would think that they would have setup the one that was the most up to date on that tank. It can have improvements and additions to the internal components and still do the same things as advertised.
