Setting up Hydros X10 as a doser ?

[Jasonak]

So trying to setup my X10 as a dosing unti and my the instructions I found at the coralvue site done seem to line up with the app.
I spent a hour trying to get it primed before I realized that the pump was broke Ill have to reach out to hydros on that. That was a little frustrating brand new and busted.
Anywyas switched to a diffrent pump and got it primed and think I have it figured it out but basically it will only dos in one shot ? or you can do the math yourself and do your dos in several doses throught out the day is that right ? Im coming from a neptune setup where you put in 350 and in does little dos all day for you. So just trying to figure this one out.
Is there any videos on this anywhere ?
Only ones I could find were the coralvue guys talking about how cool it was and telling you nothing about programing it LOL
Thanks in advance.

 

[braaap]

You have to build a schedule and then apply the X10 to the schedule. It’s a nightmare. The x10 dosing heads are trash. The programming I also a mess. Nothing intuitive about it. It’s a shame because they try and talk bad about Apex programming and Hydros programming is a disaster. You need 2-3 different pages to do one simple task. Apex is one screen and a few lines of basic coding.

See my attached schedule. It’s for a single dose but you can break it into a bunch. Mine starts and ends in 1 minute because I only want it to dose once. But you could start it at 0001 and then end at 2359 and make it do 10 doses if you want.

 

[Jasonak]

Thanks I appreciate it, its been a bit of a nightmare figuring this out. :confounded-face:

 

[n2585722]

Thanks I appreciate it, its been a bit of a nightmare figuring this out. :confounded-face:

In the schedule the total dose is the amount you want dosed for the entire run of the schedule. You can split that into multiple times. When you do multiple times the start to end in the schedule is split into that many sections and the dose is dispensed at the beginning of each section. That way you can use multiple schedules for different times of the day if you want and start then next schedule at the end time of the first. You can even do dynamic dosing where the dose changes depending on the readings on a input if you want. I use all the above dosing All For Reef and a KH buffer for my system. The All For Reed is scheduled on one schedule for a 24 hour period and doses 4 times a day. My KH buffer is dosed using multiple schedules depending on time of day and the alkalinity reading, I have 2 X10's and have had no issues other that a couple of pump heads cracked on the first one and both were on the same side so I am thinking something must have happened during shipping. I use them for dosing the 2 items and alkalinity testing with the iV. The first 2 screenshots are for my All For Reef dosing. It is the most common of dosing schedules. It is currently set for a total dose of 45.4ml a day split into 4 doses. Since the start time and end time are the same they are done every 6 hours starting at 3:30am. The alkalinity test are also done 4 times a day starting at 1:00am, then a water change is done 4 times a day starting at 2:00am. Then the dosing starting at 3:00am. So the testing, water change and dosing happen in a sequence. I mix my All For Reef half strength so the actual All For Reef dose is half the amount dosed. The third screenshot is a log of the All For Reef dosing. The forth and fifth screenshots are of one of my KH buffer schedules. There are 4 schedules depending on time of day since those dose different amounts depending on needs. More is consumed during lighting hours compared to night. This schedule is a little more complex since it uses the alkalinity reading form the last test to calculate the amount to dispense. I have the minimum and maximum close. I also have it depend on an output that is only on when the KH readings are in a normal range. If it gets out of that range either way it will stop the schedule and not dispense at all. If it is out of that range I do not want it to run until I can check into things to make sure there are no issues. I would rather not dispense at all instead of over doing it. The last screenshot is the log of the KH buffer pump. I did not post the other schedules but the amount dosed depends on the schedule and the alkalinity reading at the time of the dose. Morning and afternoon dose the most and the evening and night dose the least. I can tweak each one depending on the pattern I am getting in the readings.

 

[Jasonak]

Thank you for such detailed info. I do appreciate it. I belive im set up correct but i keep getting message saying that KALK misconfigured. But it did dos 10ml lile it was supose to.

 

[n2585722]

So you are wanting to dose at 1 am at 10ml a minute each day. How is the output for the pump setup. Here is mine. I happen to use 10ml a minute and that is the speed it was calibrated at.

 

[Jasonak]

This is what mine looks like.

 

[n2585722]

This is what mine looks like.

I don't see anything wrong with it or the schedule,

 

[n2585722]

This is what mine looks like.

I also got to thinking if you created a output or schedule and it had an alert you may need to do a reboot of the controller if it is a single controller or reboot the wifi master if it is in a collective. You can do that from the right menu then select device properties and there should be a red reboot button to reboot the controller of select the wifi master and reboot it if the controller is a part of a collective.