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rushbattle
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Rinsing the syringe.
Ooo hmm I was curious because mine still has some blue color water in the bottom of it left over. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't working improperly.. I got a really REALLY off number but I think it had to do more with the placement of my rodi than anything and was checking in the machine and saw the leftover and couldn't figure it out.
rushbattle
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Is your RODI container on the same level as your Reefbot, approximately? If you see anything left in the rinse chamber you have an issue.
Eek...anyone else have this happen to them yet? This was a new needle I put on for a replacement. I noticed all my test results were all 0 so I checked. I put a new one on and all seems to be well. Thinking I maybe put it in slightly slanted or something and it hit against one of the viles.
rushbattle
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Twice so far to me as well. Seems to be a bit of a design flaw, but I am waiting to hear back from Jad for what he thinks might be going on.Eek...anyone else have this happen to them yet? This was a new needle I put on for a replacement. I noticed all my test results were all 0 so I checked. I put a new one on and all seems to be well. Thinking I maybe put it in slightly slanted or something and it hit against one of the viles.
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Eek...anyone else have this happen to them yet? This was a new needle I put on for a replacement. I noticed all my test results were all 0 so I checked. I put a new one on and all seems to be well. Thinking I maybe put it in slightly slanted or something and it hit against one of the viles.
Mine have been good after I straighten mine out . I don’t push my vials all the way to the back tho . Maybe like quarter inch from back . I kind of eyeballed it so it hits near the center . Is anybody using the Giesemann Po4 test ? I am setting it up now and my test has two of the same reagents it looks like . Are these the same p04-1 and did you put both in one test vial
Mine have been good after I straighten mine out . I don’t push my vials all the way to the back tho . Maybe like quarter inch from back . I kind of eyeballed it so it hits near the center . Is anybody using the Giesemann Po4 test ? I am setting it up now and my test has two of the same reagents it looks like . Are these the same p04-1 and did you put both in one test vial
One of those should say -2 at the end I believe. You put -1 into a vile and -2 into a vile. I haven't been able to get my Giesemann to work yet though. I don't think there is enough reagent in the small bottles I got. I don't think the needle goes down low enough but I haven't had time to play with it.
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Thanks ! I was wonder why they had two of the same reagent 1 but in different bottles .. and Yeah I just noticed that it’s gonna take one or two more to fill the 2nd reagent . I have two more test coming in mail . They should be here tomorrow or the next . I guess I’ll hold off for another day or two
Jesus 900 bucks and design flaws , thank you brave souls for being the testers of 900 dollar testing unit. I’m waiting until V2 with all the bugs ironed out. And also a well documented track record
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Yea we know . You have said it 500 times now LOL It is working Great for me
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It’s obviously working fine for hundreds of folks, it’s probably my fault like something got whacked when I unpacked it.
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It wouldn’t hurt to have a alignment button or the sort on the app to maybe stop the needle over each vial . That way you could adjust accordingly
I had to order 2 more giesemann phosphate kits (for a total of 3) to fill the vial to be able to even run a test. Still got 0 ppm (the color was not white like before, which indicates not enough reagent), whereas manual Hanna ULR is giving me 0.098 ppm (32 ppb). Not sure giesemann is worth it at the point. $54 for 3 test kits. It is supposed to have good resolution at the low end (0 ppm, 0.03 ppm, 0.06 ppm, 0.1 ppm, etc.). I would have been happy if it reported 0.1 ppm, but for it to report 0 is unacceptable. I don't know if this is a reefbot issue or a giesemann issue.
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That’s not good . I hope I can get a reading . They recommend this one for P04 . How many test did you run
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Mine does this too . I thought it was normal and shaking air out ? . But good question if it isn’t normal I wanna know .
Ran it again using the reefbot and got 0 ppm again. Ran it manually and could not tell the difference between colors. Giesemann is really useless and expensive (by requiring so many test kits to be run).
Here are my comparisons so far:
Alk (Salifert) works well and matches Hanna manual testing
Alk (RedSea) is off by 0.2-0.3 dKH from Hanna manual testing.
Ca (API) works well and matches Salifert manual testing.
API (nitrate) can only report 0 ppm, 5 ppm, 10 ppm, etc. It needs better resolution at the low end. My Salifert manual testing was 1 ppm and Reefbot (API) reported 0 ppm.
Mg (RedSea) is off from Salifert manual testing by 75 ppm.
PO4 (Giesemann) is off from Hanna ULR by 0.1 ppm
I hope reefbot can get some better phosphate and nitrate test kits working because right now, I am not ready to let Reefbot automate those tests because it does not give me the accuracy or resolution I desire. Not sure the RedSea Mg is worth using up 3 reagent vials for unless it proves more accurate than Salifert manual testing. I'm not sure which is correct.
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