Why is GCC capping dosing times?

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Not sure why, but it is 8 manual dose times or 150 automated dosing times per day for the stand alone doser.
 

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The slave doser you could get creative. You could stack multiple timers in advance logic and tie them to a switch port which in turn ties to the doser with the P4. Then it come down to how many you looking for before it can be achieved with automated dosing.
 

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I am still testing need to wait 24 hours to see the ML results inside my container. I am testing this right now for you on a P4 connected to a spare doser head. So far looks like it is working.


First we need two Timers

Timer: 1 ( This is your dosing schedule. With a understanding your only going to be doing it 1/2 of this time. (I know should have included Friday :))
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Timer: 2 (Is set up for the times you would dose for)
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Advance Program Logic

With the two timers we created above we are going to tied them together with a And Statement

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Assign the Program Logic to the Switch Channel:

Find a Free Switch Channel Port and assign the Program logic we created in the step before
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Assign that Switch channel your Doser Port:

With the Switch Channel now programmed we now assign that to your doser.

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I can also show how to do this is GHL Connect App also if you would like, I just knew you were using the desktop application in your other posts :)

The above would dose only when both timers are on :)

So does this dose 1/2 the amount, or does it compress the automatic amount into the new time frame? Thanks. :)
 

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It dosed the 1/2 amount. The second timer worked like a charm. I am running a few more test but my test container was 12 dose amount and not 24.
 

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It dosed the 1/2 amount. The second timer worked like a charm. I am running a few more test but my test container was 12 dose amount and not 24.
Thanks. Good to know. I'm possibly going to look at doing a 70:30 (photoperiod:darkness) split of the amount dosed based on alkalinity consumption, so this might help with that.
 

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